The quality of care we provide ourselves is crucial to our self-esteem, the esteem we receive from others, and how well we adapt and perform under varying circumstances.
How we care for ourselves is critical to our self-esteem and the esteem others have for us.Yesterday while playing doubles tennis, instead of hitting an easy put-away shot for the winning point, I hit an unforced error. My immediate reaction was to berate myself as I’ve unthinkingly done too often in the past. But not so much now.
On the other hand, after hitting the ball well, winner or not, I quickly reflect on what I did to make the shot. Then topping it off with a discreetly modest dollop of self-praise, I can double down on this personal blueprint of mine for safeguarding the relationship I have with myself, my fellow players, and the game. For my efforts, I frequently cash in on a discernable bump up in the quality of all three.
Typically, they point to what we can do to upgrade our “mental hygiene” or the quality of our self-care whether we’re on the tennis court or under any number of circumstances where self-evaluations get triggered while “playing” the larger game of life. Surely, the world takes on a new and positive meaning when our “internal affairs” are in good order.
Nevertheless, their developmental influence is deeply “imprinted” within us, leaving us with a self-relationship that reflects, to varying degrees, the quality of these first or prototypical,relationships. In short, the quality of our early relationships—specifically, how we were “spoken to” --is reflected in how we now relate to ourselves.
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