Noble heart is beauty of character which create harmony everywhere resulted in peace and happiness. Pain or happiness both have more intensity while we are anticipating the,pain is more painful and happiness is having much joy than actual experience of happiness!
Present moment is always pregnant with future perceptions and wounds of past create pain while we remember them,past is still hunting us then. Its a common practice.Meditation is practising present here and now forgetting past and future.Its success depend upon manipulation of outer world and stabling self in what ought to be.
Experiencing self worth as a worthy son or daughter of god,and how we feel about self in terms of our skills,experiences,achievements and status. Our basic need is to climb social ladder and we lost in indulgence-passions or greed for more of the more which ends with this body.
We think that we know self better than any body else and who else can know us? Experiences  would force us to re-think and to evaluate our priorities which changed with time and we understand some new things about our requirements. we resist changes. The world is a better place and would be better so long you have desire to improve situation with your support.
We have made material success our crutches and think we would lose our ability to walk without them,we need them to sustain in this world,then certainty changed into uncertainty. We forget that mutual growth is interdependent and is in mutual love and understanding plus contribution. Self worth is self acceptance.
So accepting self as  we are in actual practice