In this introductory video of her A‑Z series on high self‑esteem, positive psychologist Sidhika Goenka explains that the foundation of a healthy, happy, and successful life is positive self‑esteem, which can be nurtured by the simple habit of asking questions. She urges parents and educators to encourage children of any age to raise their hands and ask in classroom settings, emphasizing that asking demonstrates confidence, security, and self‑respect. Goenka extends the principle to adults, suggesting that framing personal goals (e.g., wanting to be thin or happy) as questions to the Divine invites motivation and answers from the universe. She advises parents to support their children’s inquiries at home, to never dismiss questions, and to model patience when answers are not immediately known. The video concludes with a promise to continue the series with the next letter, B, and reinforces that “Ask and you will receive” is a key practice for cultivating high self‑esteem.
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Hello, I'm Sidhika Goenka, a positive psychologist, and I believe the way to live a healthy, happy, and successful life is to have a positive self-esteem. And the way to a positive self-esteem is simple. We're going to do a video series of how to increase your self-esteem and simple activities that you can encourage your child to have. So today we're gonna start with a simple activity. A. A for ask. Always ask. Even for your children, encourage them to ask questions when they're in a classroom setting, whether they are 3 years old, 5 years old, 18 years old, or even 21 years of age. Encourage them to ask questions to their teachers and higher authorities. It's always very difficult sometimes to Raise your hand up and ask questions. I know there are some children who are very apprehensive of asking questions, so encourage them. It doesn't look silly if you ask questions. More times than usual, if you are raising your hand up, there are lots of other children in the class who also have the same question. So if you raise your hand up to ask a question, it shows that you're confident, you're secure, and you're happy with yourself, and you genuinely have a question to ask. So always remember, asking is a key to a healthy self-esteem. Even for adults, as parents, sometimes we want something but we don't know how to get it. Let's say we want to be thin and we don't know how to get that. We want to be happy and we don't know how to get it. Ask, ask the Divine for motivation to become thin, or ask the Divine for motivation to become happy. Ask for something and you will get it. Once you ask, once you have thrown out the question out there to the universe, you will definitely get answers. So when you focus your brain to asking a particular question, there will be some hints or signals that you find in the universe which will give the answer to the question that you have put out there. So remember, asking questions will give you answers. Encourage children to participate in discussions in schools, in classrooms where they are made to ask questions. Encourage them when they come home, encourage them to ask questions to you. Don't dismiss their answers, don't dismiss their questions. Let them question to you, and if you don't know the answer, wait for a minute, say I'll get back to you with the answer, but always encourage them to ask. Ask and you will receive. So my first video today is A, A for ask, which always helps in inculcating a healthy self-esteem. Stay tuned for the letter B tomorrow. Bye, see you, have a great day.
