How to cultivate a sense of unconditional self-worth

Many of us have our growing up years filled with experiences that destroy our self-worth. Slowly we establish in our minds that we are not good enough.

Self-worth is different from self-esteem which can be bolstered by improving our skill sets, social positions, and our performance. Self-worth is a basic sense of being deserving to be loved and cared for and to be alive in this world.

• Ads on TV tell us what we need to spend money on to become acceptable, successful or lovable.
• Our educational system measures us using standard grades and test-scores, destroying our individuality.
• Parents love our accomplishments and subtly want us to push ourselves towards greater success at the cost of our freedom of personal choice.
• Social media has highly effective metrics to measure our worthiness, like the number of followers or likes.

When we fail to do what society wants us to do, we lose approval and experience unworthiness.