Dear Sipra,
Excellent presentation. However, there are some terms and views you may want to consider further:
1. Being Awake: What is it? Is it not subjective?
2. Defining Self-Esteem: Avoid linguistic jargon and define it in straightforward terms that are easily understood.
3. Healthy Ways to Build Self-Esteem: If its foundation is based on external factors, it can also be destroyed by the same means.
4. Feeling vs. Thinking What We Deserve: How do we define what is respectable within oneself with respect to what?
5. Improving Unconscious Behavior: This is not possible since, by its very nature, it is unconscious.
6. Increasing Acceptable Behaviors: Is this an indicator of low self-esteem?
7. Raising the Level of Consciousness: We tend to assume we know what "consciousness" means. We need to define it in concrete terms.
8. Maslow's Hierarchy and Existence: It is for proper existence, not life. Life is personal; existence is not. Existence does not require virtues; life does. Existence requires power superior to your environment.
9. Understanding Self-Sabotage: The causes of self-esteem you mention in the presentation affect those with naturally low self-esteem. While you're correct about infants being affected, some people thrive despite these causes and develop great self-esteem.
If you translate these concepts to societies, nations, etc., you'll see who possesses self-esteem and what forms it. For example, India lacks self-esteem and tries to buffer its stance through dialogue and peace. The US has self-esteem in a reactionary form, not a responsive form. Historical figures like Chanakya, Henry Ford, President Dwight Eisenhower, and Indira Gandhi had great self-esteem. Such examples provide valuable lessons on the direct perception of self-esteem. I hope you take this feedback in the right spirit.
Best Regards,
Harish.