Losing my confidence may not cause dementia but it is a normal effect of dementia, which means dementia causes loss of confidence.
Loss of confidence is the consequence of my disconnection from my source of authority. I connect to my source of authority when I confide in myself. My true Self or my authentic Self is the true source of my confident Self. When I confide in my confident Self, I connect with my self confidence.
My confidence is an unconscious competence. I connect with my unconscious competence when I am confident. When I am confident, I am competent; whether I know why, or not.
Competence gives me confidence, which allows my competence to materialise & manifest into the experience of my personal reality. I confront life with confidence when I feel competent because my emotional power of competence is always in alignment with my confident mental authority.
When I lose my confidence due to dementia, I also lose my competence because my loss of mental confidence drains my emotional power. I am empowered with the competence of my confident choices.
When I see life as happening to me, my competence allows my confidence to rise. When I see life as happening by me, the more confidence that I have, the more competent that I appear to be. When I allow life to happen through me, my confident authority is empowered by my authentic competence being in alignment with my true Self.
My confidence is relative to my competence, which is relative to my emotional power, which is relative to my emotional state of being. A quality personal attribute has both worth & value. The better the quality, the purer the attribute, the more it is worth and the greater is its value for my Self.
My Self worth is directly relative to how much I value my Self. How much I value my Self is directly relative to my perceived level of competence. My perceived level of competence determines my emotional power and the greater my level of emotional power, the greater is the value of my Self worth.
When I have confidence in my authority of choice, I value the worth of my perceived experience. The worth of my perceived experience is relative to the confidence that I have in the authority of my chosen perspective. Beneficial choices have a confident authority and are worthy of a great & powerful value.
When dementia deprives me of my choice, it deprives me of my authority and it deprives me of my emotional power to make a choice. Memory is a mental attainment that needs emotional power to operate effectively. The sub-conscious mind runs on emotional power. Deprived of emotional power, my sub-conscious memory becomes inaccessible. Access to memory is essential for intellectual reasoning, which is essential for making beneficial choices.
Informed choices are attained with a beneficial choice of sub-conscious intelligence. Sub-conscious intelligence is information & data stored as memory in the sub-conscious mind. My intelligence is a measure of my ability to recall stored information from my memory.
Dementia blocks access to stored information, which inhibits choice. It is not just beneficial choice that dementia inhibits, but all choice. All human beings are inherently authorised with choice. Dementia disconnects that inherent authority, which disallows the ability, to make a choice with the mental reasoning of the intellect.
The brain is a processor of mental data. In the absence of mental data, the brain has nothing to process. It is not a matter of garbage in, garbage out but a matter of, if nothing in, then nothing out. The lights are on, but nobody is at home. Whether the brain is functioning properly, with the ability of choice or not, is irrelevant. If the brain is starved of information, the ability of choice is drastically inhibited.
The more information that the brain has access to, the greater is the reasoning power & the greater is the intellect; therefore the greater is the choice and the more reasonable is the outcome.
The inability to make informed choices has a hugely detrimental effect on self-esteem. I pride myself on my ability to make good, right & beneficial choices in my life. The higher I hold myself in esteem, the more confidence I have and the more worthy I value myself to be. The more confident I am, the more I value my worth and the greater is my sense of self-esteem.
My sense of self-esteem is intuitive. I see my Self in high esteem when I know that I am confident and I feel worthy of the value that I have to offer in my life.
My mental capacity drives my choices with confidence, my emotional competence empowers my worth with value and together they determine my self-esteem.
Nobody ever confidently sees the value in dementia, so nobody ever holds dementia in high esteem.