Self-esteem is the confidence and worth that you feel about yourself. Your selfesteem ___31___ everything you do, think, feel, and are. It is, in fact, one of the most important ___32___ in your overall sense of well-being. How well you feel physically, ___33___, and socially can affect your self-esteem. In turn, your ___34___ of self-esteem can directly affect your physical, mental, and social health.
Some of the ___35___ about who you are and how likable you are come from outside yourself. They are called ___36___ messages. Others come from inside yourself. They are called internal messages.
Many people ___37___ their self-esteem on external factors -- on how they look, what they have, how they ___38___ , how others see them, or with whom they are friends. In ___39___, however, self-esteem comes from knowing, ___40___ and liking not what you have, whom you know, or what you do, but who you are.