The Four Dimensions of Human Life & Self-Esteem.

The Social/Emotional Dimension.

Welcome to another amazing week with great opportunities, I feel a special excitement writing to you again this week. Before I get into our major for the week, I want you to know that your positive affirmations on what you want to achieve this week and the rest of the year is important to your progress. Don’t keep quiet, speak positively over this week and your life.

In the physical dimension, I told you about how important your body is because the physical dimension represented by the body is what gives shelter to everything and gives you the platform to be productive in every other dimension of life.

In the second dimension I told you that the mind which represents the mental dimension is where every action happens, it is the stronghold and the connection that makes everything else ticks – from the first and second dimension discussed so far, I’ve been able to show you the undisputable interdependence nature of all the dimensions of life and this week, I will be showing you how the social/emotional dimension of the human life is the playground where you showcase the developments made in every other dimension of life.

I speak with a lot of people from time to time and recently I met a 23years old girl, she was sitting alone among so many people where the normal expectation would be for her to network with some of these people and make a new friend or at least have fun.

I walked up to her and ask her why she was sitting alone and the next thing she said was, “I am not good with people and I don’t have friends.” I asked her if she doesn’t want to change that and make a few friends here and her response was “what is the point, they’ll still end up hurting me.” I tried what I could to get her to mix, it seemed to talk to me was already enough work for her to cope with at that moment, and I made the most of it by giving her some words of encouragement.

If you look around today, you’ll see this template everywhere you turn in society, people lacking the physical and mental development to build or manage relationships that will be useful to them in life.

The social and emotional dimension is a platform for expression for all dimensions of life – building good and working relationships is how you express the extent of your growth in the social/emotional dimension.

The way you feel and carry yourself represents the physical dimension and the way you think and see yourself represents the mental dimension – the medium of expression for these two dimensions is through what you do in the social/emotional dimension. The interdependence of all the dimensions is visible through your social/emotional dimension in your interactions with other people and in how you respond to yourself emotionally.

Building Yourself for Association.

The impact of all the other dimensions of human life is mostly felt by the individual, the social/emotional dimension is the one that carries a more outward expression, it is the dimension that allows others to gauge your maturity in every aspect of life and make conclusions on whether you’re worth engaging with in different aspects and stages of life.

The investments you made in the physical and mental dimensions are for your well-being and to properly build relationships with people that will give you the needed social and emotional advantage to thrive in important areas of life.

Life doesn’t have a ladder; it has an elevator and the technology by which the elevator works is God lifting people through people. If you want to be successful in any part of life, you must put conscious effort into building the aspect of your life that affect your social interactions and your emotional reactions.

Just like I mentioned about the books, the content, and the association you keep as the medium of building a solid mental stronghold in the last issue, the key to being fit and proper in your interactions and emotional reactions lies in the place of self-development.

How confident you’re about yourself, both in appearance and thought, and your self-esteem level will determine the kind of social interactions you’ll have. This is why you must always invest in developing yourself all-round.

Inner Security.

Inner security is another term for healthy self-esteem, the results of the victory in the first two dimensions are an important tool for inner security, and that will be shown in the way you carry yourself.

Your level of self-esteem will constantly show in your social interaction and emotional reactions – the more inner security you enjoyed based on majorly the work you’ve done in the mental dimension will determine how well you’ll do in the social/emotional dimension.

The more secure you’re in yourself, the easier and more open it will be for you to relate with other people without putting up an adversarial front like someone is out to get you – to be relaxed around other people, to trust other people, you must first be relaxed in yourself and trust yourself.

The relationship between this dimension and your self-esteem is inseparable as your social activities and emotional involvement in all areas of life will reflect the level of your self-esteem.

Building healthy self-esteem that translates into great inner security is an undisputable tool needed to thrive in the social/emotional dimension of human life. There is no major victory that can be won without it.

Emotional Intelligence.

The ability to read situations, the ability to keep your cool and not lash out at events in moments in a way you shouldn’t, and the ability to carry people along and do it in a way that communicates compassion and respect to their persons are all qualities that define emotional intelligence.

Building emotional intelligence is one of the ways to improve your positive output in the social/emotional dimension.

The metric to measure emotional maturity is emotional intelligence and the platform through which emotional maturity can be displayed is the everyday social interactions that you have with the people around you.

Low self-esteem is one of the signs that show a lack of emotional maturity and when you’re suffering from low self-esteem, it becomes harder to interact, communicate and succeed.

Every stage of life you’re passing through should teach you how to be emotionally better, it should show you one or two dimensions of how other people operate and how situations should be handled in a better way – you must draw lessons and growth from every aspect of life in building yourself for the social/emotional dimensions of human life.

The Areas of Operation.

Every aspect of your life is a platform to show your social/emotional skills, this is one of the reasons why the growth in every other dimension of your life must be adequately applied to this particular dimension.

Starting from the family to religion, culture, career and every other relationship you’ll build in life, your social and emotional maturity is the key factor in making everything work. The wide scope of operation of this dimension is the reason why people can do everything right in all other dimensions but if that doesn’t build them into the social/emotionally developed person they have to be, they might not be able to go far in many areas in life.

As long as you’re going to interact with other people in whatever you do in life, you need to build a great social/emotional capacity.

The Platform.

The social/emotional dimension of human life is the biggest platform where every other dimension of life finds expression. If you’re proud of your physical dimension, you’ll find it easier in showing yourself to others, you can commit to various physical activities for the good of others – if you build a great mental dimension, you have a stronghold, a foundation that gives you the necessary tool to collaborate, respect and treat people in a great manner because you’re mentally secure in yourself and not susceptible to fall into an adversarial position with other people.

The spiritual dimension which is the last dimension to discuss is also a dimension that finds great expression in interacting with other people, the inner peace that it provides is also highly reflected in how you relate with other people.

The social/emotional dimension of life is the ground on which all the dividends of the investment made in every other dimension of life are shown.

Remember this, “life doesn’t have a ladder; it has an elevator and the technology by which the elevator works is God lifting people through people and you need to interact with these people.”

It feels great writing to you again this week, may God continue to bless you. Have an amazing week, but leave a comment for me about this post before you share it.

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