self-esteem is often considered an important part of personality and individuality. The self-actualizing process, with its creative transformations, not uncommonly leads to a moment of peak experiencing, experiencing that in a powerful, time-free moment reveals life’s unitary substrata, the ocean of the individual waves. These transformative experiences transpose one’s ethical consciousness accordingly. self-esteem can be increased with the help of motivation, effective communication with colleagues and friends, and ethical behavior. Researchers admit that persons are compassionately concerned with humanity and life as a whole. Yet they have a strong sense of themselves, their autonomy, and their special need for privacy.
Berger;s ideas (2010) — proposing a motivational ground beyond deficiency and a new understanding of psychological health — served to spark self-esteem and to give a new value centering to educational psychology. McKey and Fanning (2000)admit that such terms as “consciousness,” which for years under behaviorism had been ruled out of order, plays a crucial role in increasing self-esteem. The concept of self-esteem offers conceptual support for the emergence of many forms of cognitive behaviors. In general, personal needs and values involve achievements and personal improvement, a desire to prove professional skills and knowledge. The willingness of members of a community to contribute their services toward achieving the group’s purpose is another element which research has shown to be important to the work that has to be accomplished. Positive thinking should support dialogue and activities in a wide range of areas.
While building self-esteem, beyond this establishment of special ends (happiness, self-actualization, and so on), which we have called fulfillment, the path of fulfillment is itself existential. That is, one’s self, one’s understanding, and one’s sense of ethics are all transformed in this process. McKey and Fanning (2000) bring into the fulfillment debate virtually all contemporary psychology insights (creativity, developmental, physiological, and so on). As to the spiritual, other “esoteric” traditions took up the issues we now consider spiritual and even mystical. Indeed, An individual following an spiritual path comes to recognize more than one’s own interest in others’ interests, indeed comes to actually see one as other. This is part of a consciousness process in which one goes beyond what comes to be recognized as the illusion of separate selfhood. As regards the values-ethics crisis and the unique contribution Maslow could make, on the one hand, The whole range of human need and value states and does so from vantage points that include the bio-physiological, sociological, anthropological, and, of course, psychological as well as spiritual. Moreover, having deconstructed most modern institutional supports, including the very rationalistic moorings underpinning modern ethics, deconstructionists have left a void that seems best potentially filled by a philosophy (Berger, 2010).
In sum, in order to increase self-esteem a person should pay special attention to relations and communication with friends and other people, create positive behavior patterns and follow moral rules in all actions. The issues of authenticity, alienation, and identity, which were originally raised in another time and context by existentialists, along with issues of values, ethics, and spirituality, now reemerge to relevance as reality becomes increasingly an imitation simulacrum of itself. The self is not something fixed, but is in transformation, and its self image passes through all the ambiguity, diversity, and irony that have come to characterize postmodern thought itself.
References
Berger, K. S. (2010). Invitation to the Life Span. New York: Worth Publishers.
McKey, M., Fanning, P. (2000). Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem. New Harbinger Publications; 3 edition.