A healthy sense of self means a healthy ego with healthy self-esteem. This is also what is meant by the soul! The soul is the Observer self or watcher that stands back and watches in our dreams. It is the evolutionary byproduct of the invention of reading and writing 4000 years ago. The ego, self-esteem, the Observer self or the soul are spiritual in nature and not physical. Human awareness is not physical, but it is spiritual. To deny things of the spirit is to deny human awareness as self.
Self-esteem and a healthy ego are the same as a fully developed soul. The fully developed soul is the result of personal effort in life. Our soul grows through life experience as does our self-esteem and how we feel about ourselves. We develop our souls by living deeply and richly.
Good self-esteem, a healthy ego and a highly developed soul are the end products of the ability to live independently, happily and competently. These are all the result of putting forth productive and creative personal effort in all areas of life. These are all the result of producing values in life, values that are recognized by both ourselves and by others.
The bottom line is that self-esteem, a healthy ego and the soul itself are developed through hard personal effort and not intrinsic in nature. We earn them. We develop them through a lifetime of productive effort. They are not given to us! They are not handed out freely! No one else can do our work for us!
You won’t have them unless you work for them!
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