It brings together our earliest and most fundamental feelings and thus exerts a significant influence on the formation of basic trust. This includes feeling accepted, secure and belonging, as well as self-worth and self-respect. What is sometimes overlooked: the ability to tolerate being alone and to transform and elevate feelings of loneliness also belongs in this area. All of this together constitutes our personal integrity, promotes self-confidence and positive qualities such as optimism, kindness and compassion.