What about a person with low self-esteem?

 

They are more insecure, sensitive, indecisive, they are affected by what others may think, making them change or abandon their desires. In addition, they find it difficult to be assertive, that is, to express their opinions, feelings, attitudes, among others, in the right way.

To have high self-esteem it is important that we work and reflect on three levels:

• Self-concept, (thinking) the image I have of myself physically, intellectually, emotionally,... what I believe and think of myself in positive terms.

• Self-affect, (feeling) positive affective experience with myself, how I feel about myself, what things I say to myself, how I treat myself.

• Self-efficacy, (acting) how I impact on the world, what other people think of me and whether my self-concept and self-worth are reflected in the relationships, situations and experiences I have.

To be able to develop the capacity and competence to know ourselves in order to be able to recognise how we feel and how to regulate our emotions, we must first learn to perceive and express ourselves. In this way, it is necessary to know the keys that we are going to present below, based on emotional intelligence.

Before we start talking about emotional intelligence and the tools that help us to regulate our emotions, we think it is very interesting to start looking at each term separately.