The Feeling That "i Am Enough" Does

For Children Mastery Entails Struggle. This Means They Must Be Permitted To Struggle. If Parents Inappropriately Step In To "help"-out Of Impatience Or Solicitude-they Sabotage Important Learning. Among Other Things, The Child Is Unlikely To Discover The Advantages Of Perseverance And Self-discipline.

In Any Culture, Subculture, Or Family In Which Belief Is Valued Above Thought, And Self-surrender Is Valued Above Self-expression, And Conformity Is Valued Above Integrity, Those Who Preserve Their Self-esteem Are Likely To Be Heroic Exceptions.

No One Is Coming To Save You.

Positive Self-esteem Operates As, In Effect, The Immune System Of The Consciousness, Providing Resistance, Strength, And A Capacity For Regeneration. When Self-esteem Is Low, Our Resilience In The Face Of Life's Adversities Is Diminished. We Crumble Before Vicissitudes That A Healthier Sense Of Self Could Vanquish. We Tend To Be More Influenced By The Desire To Avoid Pain Than To Experience Joy. Negatives Have More Power Over Us Than Positives.

It Is Generally Recognized That Creativity Requires Leisure, An Absence Of Rush, Time For The Mind And Imagination To Float And Wander And Roam, Time For The Individual To Descend Into The Depths Of His Or Her Psyche, To Be Available To Barely Audible Signals Rustling For Attention. Long Periods Of Time May Pass In Which Nothing Seems To Be Happening. But We Know That Kind Of Space Must Be Created If The Mind Is To Leap Out Of Its Accustomed Ruts, To Part From The Mechanical, The Known, The Familiar, The Standard, And Generate A Leap Into The New.