To get to know yourself better, it is important to replace logic with intuition, understand who you are and who you can become, abandon old patterns, nurture everything new that comes and have patience. In this sense, working on self-knowledge is important to be a more authentic person and give the best of each other to others.
Knowing ourselves better every day will allow us to stop acting with automatic defensive mechanisms and show what we really are, which will give us great strength. In this Psychology-online article, we show you the best advice on how to know yourself better, with all the advantages at a personal, family and social level that this personal work entails.
Index
- look inside you
- Replace logic with intuition
- Understand who you are now and who you can become
- unmask the masks
- abandon old patterns
- Nurturing everything new that comes out
- Be patient and stay in the process
- Never leave it
Look inside yourself.
If you want to know yourself better, the first step is
Without being a logical and obsessive analysis of each of our actions, looking inside is a reflective process to evaluate and reflect on what happens in our lives. Without this introspective gaze it is impossible to carry out any type of personal knowledge. In this article you will see what is the inner voice and how to listen to it.
Replace logic with intuition.
self-knowledge it is not a logical process in which everything is analyzed rationally. The introspection process that must be carried out to know oneself better requires full attention and awareness of the vital process itself.
To know oneself it is necessary to maintain an open and awake attitude to what is happening in our lives. This will help to be aware of what we are doing on a day-to-day basis and incorporate new knowledge as we progress in our lives.
Understand who you are now and who you can become.
A fundamental part to take into account in the process of self-knowledge is the separation between who we are now and who we can become in reality.
Who we are now is not our true selves. We are made up of everything we have created in ourselves, but as a consequence of bad life experiences that, our potential has been blocked, and this has provoked defensive mechanisms that censor the manifestation of our most authentic. Therefore, it is essential differentiate who we really are from those experiences that do not identify us like human beings. This article about how to be authentic can help you in the process.
Unmask the masks.
Unmasking the masks consists of separate the built-in defensive mechanisms of who we are ourselves actually. Many of them have been internally accepted after vital experiences that have not conditioned and we accept them as true.
For example, being afraid of heights could be a characteristic that currently describes me. but that, in truth, is the result of a past bad experience that caused me the fear of heights. Having this fear limits us to certain new life experiences, preventing us from living them and expressing ourselves with the totality of our being. Overcoming this fear will free us from this chain that, perhaps in part, limited the expression of our potential. Unmasking all these masks will allow us, little by little, to freely express our authentic and pure being.
Let go of old patterns.
In order to free ourselves from all the defensive mechanisms that feed our ego, our unreal being and formed from maladjusted life experiences, it will not be enough to detect these masks that we have adopted but, in order to completely free ourselves from their functioning, we must carry out a hard internal work of conscious abandonment of the old patterns of life. Only through this conscientious work of personal renewal will we abandon old mechanisms ancient, we will recover our real essence and, then, we will be able to begin to know the being that we really are.
Nurture everything new that comes out.
There are spiritual perspectives that affirm that everything that comes from the human being, in its purest manifestation, it is good and that everything bad that arises from it belongs to the ego, just as we just to name.
After the continuous erasure of mechanisms that generate illusions about ourselves, everything good and new that arises from us will compose small parts of what we really are. All these treasures must be nurtured and strengthened as a way to allow the expression and delivery to the world of our true potential.
Be patient and stay in the process.
The explained process, a necessary process to get to know oneself better and truly, is something complex and that will require great patience on our part. Staying on the path despite how hard it may be for us will be essential if we really want to know the being that we really are.
Never leave it.
Patience and permanence in the path of self-knowledge must be eternal since the path is infinite and for a lifetime.
Who knows if our mission in life is, beyond developing a professional career or accumulating property and fortune, to know the being that we really are and, today, we don't know...
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