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Why Self Love Is Important?

Self-love is the totality of emotions and cognitive predispositions associated with the self-evaluation that an individual makes of themselves. In other words, it’s about the way we make self-evaluations, including here the emotional charging of self-concept (the “I-concept”) evaluations. When we talk about self-love, we’re referring to self-esteem, and this last term is the most commonly used in psychology.

So when a person tends to view themselves negatively or pessimistically, we say they lack or have low self-esteem, and when they tend to have an overly optimistic or inflated view of “I,” we say he has too high self-esteem, which can also lead to problems.

The key lies in having a balanced sense of self-worth, adjusted to the real abilities and moral qualities that really define us. In practice, however, problems related to low self-esteem are more common, which occurs when self-esteem is so low that it “paralyzes” the person, leaving him in a state of resignation and a certain passivity in the face of his prospects for getting better.

What problems can low self-esteem cause?

There are a variety of mental disorders (emotional, cognitive and/or behavioral) linked to a lack of self-esteem and to fully understand them it is best to engage in psychotherapy where they will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis . case by case depending on the needs and characteristics of the individual, the person and the context in which they live. However, summing up, we can say that the most common and important are the following. Read more You can read more about self awareness and motivation on Motivation for the day!