Thursday 28 November 2013

Osho's healthy self-esteem


Everyone deserves the opportunity to pursue their life’s dream - their legacy - as passionately and vigorously as imaginatively possible.

I was hugely inspired by the teachings and opening expressions of my first HLC teacher,  JP Sears.


But one key area from his teachings that made a permanent indent into my cognition, is the importance to understand why an individuals 'self-esteem' may be low or severally impacted, and the key to helping someones impacted 'self-esteem' is to re-build their relationship with themselves.



"You cannot truly love someone else, until you learn to love yourself first"- Ralph Smart


Be sure to love you liver..it loves you!
As we mature and are exposed to an abundance of experiences our ego becomes a self-definition, and while self-esteem includes these aspects of the 'self', it is also inclusive of the energy about us and the willingness to “do” and to do without fear of judgment by others...


Consider that your self esteem is closely connected to your own unique personal development. Your exposures as an infant, throughout childhood and through adolescent years, has shaped who you are or who you've become today, both physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to.




1. Identifying YOU: The child sees itself in the mirror and sees that things out there go on changing while he/she is the same in the mirror. At this stage, a sense of self- image is born.

2. The self-esteem: The child develops a sense of self-pride with accomplishment. Through physical movement, touching, crawling, discovery, communicating, verbal noise, when a parent disturbs this natural developmental process by repeatedly saying, “No! You can’t do that!” self-esteem becomes progressively more diminished.

3. Self-expansion and Ownership: This is the result of letting the child feel the pride of ownership that comes when it begins using the word “mine!” This self- expansion is often defeated when parents or siblings rob the child of its natural and needed developing sense of ownership. 


4. Reflective image: The child sees itself in terms of its parents’ perceptions. If the parents are unsupportive, it tries harder and progressively harder to gain approval. If it gets defeated too often, it often goes the other way and may become destructive to get attention from the parents. Murders, petty crimes, eating disorders are they all just deep emotional actions seeking love and attention?  

5. Intuitiveness: The child learns to reason and to solve problems. This is part of the child’s education by its parents, family and environment. To the degree that the child truly learns to reason, it learns to effectively solve problems and gains the sense of accomplishment that is necessary for a healthy self-esteem.- Paul Chek

6. A Stride forward: To leave a legacy, is the desire to leave proof that one has existed here on earth. Osho describes how many murders have been committed by people who never completed this stage of their development. They simply wanted to be remembered and by murdering another human being, they made the news... became known - remembered. 




When we revel more we have less to hide, when we have less to hide we are less worried about being found out, when we are less worried about being found out, we can pay better attention to someone else...this is where true intimacy exists...

Enjoy life, don't take it or yourself to seriously!

Beatle.

Ref: Osho - JP Sears - Ralph Smart - Alan Watts - Chek

          

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