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Imagine a world in which every person has healthy self esteem, confidence and self worth.

Here's why I believe that low self esteem is at the root of almost all issues, problems and "evil". Let's start from the individual and move out, since that is how life works. One child is taught to put others before himself he is taught the feelings of others are more important than his own. He is spoken to with disrespect. His parents are so focused on survival and their own issues, they don't smile or look pleased when they see him. He feels misunderstood because the significant adults in his life don't take the time to REALLY listen to him. Misunderstandings have (on more than a couple of occasions) resulted in punishment and scolding for things that were not his fault, or over which he had no control.

Here are the beliefs that are most likely to be programmed into the child before he even reaches his teen years: "I am not worthy. I am not interesting enough. I am not as important or valuable as others. I am useless." Because these beliefs are subconscious it is unlikely they'll ever be discovered unless that child is lucky enough to benefit from therapy or a self development modality that uncovers them.

The symptoms, however, will be painfully evident. Unfortunately they won't be recognised as symptoms, they will be seen as problems, issues and evils in their own right.

Combine this child's experience so far, with lack of consistent sufficient sleep, and you have a child who, in school, is unable to concentrate resulting in frequently appearing to misbehave (it's often not that he's deliberately going against instructions, it's that his brain was unable to focus enough to either hear and register the instructions or to understand them). Unfortunately the child himself has no idea that this is the case, and simply doesn't know why he is "naughty". The combination of low self worth already thriving in him, along with lack of enough sleep, can also be the reason he's not interested in (or is "bad" at) sport.

So, we now have a child whose self esteem dives even lower due to the experience of being "hopeless" in school and in sport a fact that is made out to be his fault, but which is clearly out of his own control.

This child grows into an adult who has one or more of the following issues resulting directly from a basic program of low self worth and low self esteem: No matter what he does, he seems incapable of making enough money; he always seems to be in relationships that

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