Part One of Your Personal Self Esteem Lesson Plan: You are NOT This Body!

The hypothesis formulated here is that low self esteem is solely a spiritual problem. If you seriously want to improve your self confidence and the success should be lasting and complete, the problem must be adressed on the deepest level, which is spiritual. This is crucial for your personal development.

Most persons seek for acknowledgement outside of themselves. In this way they become irrevocably dependent on the objects of the outside world. Their self esteem is only borrowed and it can be taken away at any moment.

Therefore the direction in which to go is quite clear. We must turn inward and find out the real and independent cause of true self esteem. To develop a spirituality based concept of self confidence, let us first understand some facts about our own existence. Personal development is built on a solid understanding of our true nature.

Of all the ways to improve your self esteem the best one is to understand who you really are. Be assured: Once you are able to catch a glimpse of your original beauty, the problem of low self worth will quickly fade away.

We all are spiritual beings, beings of pure consciousness.

There is no way to mechanically rebuild consciounsness, however subtle and advanced science may be. This is crucial. Likely you are already familiar with this concept. If not, but are open to it, you will find this understanding very helpful not only for solving any problem with self esteem, but in fact any problem in life.

If you are a follower of gross science and strictly averse to the idea that consciousness, being different from matter in essence, cannot arise from matter, then you will close yourself to life changing consequences.

But I don't want to discourage you. While I respect your decision to accept a certain world view, I'd like to invite you on a journey based on a different concept: Matter comes from consiousness, not vice versa.

This concept is not based on blind faith, but on pure and undefeatable logic. It is crucial for raising your self esteem. It is the absolute, i.e. independent foundation of authentic personal development and it is also the conclusion of many of the most advanced civilisations, which have existed on this earth. One of them, which is considered the foremost by many scholars, is the Vedic Civilisation of Ancient India. Many revelations of modern scientific research - as in the field of physics - have shed light on the genius of this culture, hidden in secret and sacred Sanskrit codes for thousands of years.

In the following conversation the Vedic scholar Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is teaching self esteem by explaining that consciousness is the origin of everything in existence.