Self-respect means knowing that you choose your feelings at every moment, and value yourself.

According to the Oxford dictionary, self-respect is confidence and pride in oneself. It is a feeling that one is bearing with dignity and honor. It is important to know what is right, to be comfortable and to be aware of your own value so that you are confident and proud of who you are. At another level, self-respect involves honoring one's soul which means to speak and to act with a level of honesty and integrity that reflects your superior being.

When you communicate with others while respecting their inner being, you always feel better. You may have noticed that when you express that anger, you may feel a sense of incompleteness. You cannot free yourself from a situation if you do not put your love into it. Anyway, you will have to solve all these situations completed in anger later. It may not be the same person, but you will create an identical situation with another person to allow you to resolve that inner peace and love.

Furthermore, self-respect is not comparing oneself to others especially when they achieve something different. It is not having too much pride, ego, or over-confidence either. It is very rewarding to know that others believe in you, give you their trust and help you. Yet, if you want to be strong, you must not feel the need for others to do so to have faith in yourself. Through this constant need for validation, other people become an authority usurping the place of your deepest self. Your truth may be different from others. The only possible mistake is not to respect your truth and accept the truth of others, even if it does not correspond to your truth.

Whatever your beliefs, you must respect them and remain open to new ways of seeing things, if they can bring you more joy in life. Do not accept beliefs or thoughts automatically unless they sound right for you. Respect your truth, have faith in it and affirm it, while maintaining your compassion for others. Self-respect is also the ability to accept ourselves through our ups (strengths) and downs (weaknesses), and to compare ourselves to others in a constructive and non-depreciative way. And to respect ourselves, we must estimate ourselves sufficiently.

To conclude, self-respect requires acting on and believing in the same values one says because some people always give others the best advice, but do not follow them. Do not forget you are valuable, and you have a unique and specific contribution to bring to the world. Your dreams and goals are as important as any other person. Some people really respect others, yet they do not get that respect in return. In this case, they do not think they deserve to be treated so well, and they allow others to treat them terribly. It is easy to respect others when everyone respects you. The challenge is to respect yourself while others do not respect you. Above all, forgive them and give up any desire to receive some validation. When you need the validation of others to feel good, you lose your own power.