Chapter 5: Exploring Self-Reflection
The time to do self-reflection has arrived in your life. There is always an opportunity to explore your inner self with outer self. Your energy, potential, life interests and goals all provide a successful outcome if you have self-awareness.
Exploring yourself is valuable for the results of your action. You can practice this perfectly with keen observation and analytical skills. Be a critic of your own and never take this potential for granted.
You might be unaware of these skills before but with constant involvement, as well as practicing self-reflection repeatedly, it has fruitful effects in your everyday life.
To reflect is the ability and the willingness to learn more than before, identifying your true purpose, taking further steps and demonstrating great interest in solving any setbacks along the way.
Some questions to ask yourself for reflection are what are your values? How much do you care about yourself to improve to achieve and maintain success based on these values? And what have you learned so far about yourself, goals, health and success.
Conscious Consideration
This is the most useful form of reflection you have; evaluating your beliefs and analyzing actions carefully. It is the main purpose of reflection.
This sole learning process would help you in developing a connection of your thoughts with behaviors. This action would inform you about your future, destiny and how to prepare your mindset to take hold of certain events in the future as part of your manifestation journey.
I am going to share the essential habits for personal growth using reflection that will open doors and ease the path for your success. You just need to consider them with conscious efforts in your daily life and apply in your actions.
Start from doing each of these once a day and then increase the frequency according to your comfort level. Do not ignore your worries and prioritize your health and peace of mind. It will all finally work in your favor.
Being honest with your self is the best policy. Speak honestly and execute your responsibilities honestly or truthfully. Always stay true to yourself.
For instance, it is better to study honestly for 20 minutes at a time rather than doing it 60 minutes with 40 minutes of distraction and play.
Noticing your patterns is the second aim you need to achieve for reflection. It involves your usual behaviors and actions, whatever you do as a person. Reflecting on your usual behaviors and actions gives you a deeper understanding on how you react in different circumstances and situations.
Articulating what you are able to achieve is another strategy you can practice. It manifests your best self and interests. When you communicate your achievements, it expresses the feeling it holds.
Forgiveness is another way to self-reflect. Stop playing the blame game. You have nothing to lose when you let go of your grudges and forgive other people’s mistakes towards you.
Change is hard but not impossible that’s why forgiving when necessary is best for yourself and others as well. Always remember that what comes around goes around and maybe one day you will require other people’s forgiveness as well. It is sometimes better to be happy than to be right. Always reflect on this.
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Steps For Self-Reflection
You need not to be overwhelmed or frustrated with how to reflect. It is as simple as you want it to be. Here are the few steps for you to start your self-reflection:
Firstly, is by journal writing. Journal writing helps you keep track of what you have gone through on a daily basis. You are able to monitor your personal growth regularly where you never miss a chance to evaluate what you are doing.
This will also give you confidence for what you will do next and what to plan next. It takes only a few minutes, a diary and a pen, which you can carry easily anywhere. You can record your thoughts and words anytime.
Secondly, spend 10 minutes a day to imagine what would you like to be or to do 10 years from now or 5 years from now or 2 years and review what are you doing to achieve that dream life. What is holding you back from achieving it and what are the skills you are wasting or not maximizing.
Thirdly, you can take up sports; sports and activity gives you a sense of energy. This can be anything from kickboxing, signing up for a marathon, swimming or soccer. Sports is also a good way to clear all the negative energy within you as it is proven to be a source of stress relief.
Defining Perfect Self Reflection Benefits
Nothing is perfect in this world.
So what makes a perfect reflection? It all depends on you. Everyone has their own definition as well as perception on what makes up a perfect self- reflection.
Reflection allows you to focus in a better way. When you don’t have a certain goal in mind, somehow your daily task becomes meaningless and frustrating. Thus, it is important to have a clear vision on how you want to see yourself in the future.
Reflection helps prevent excessive worrying. We must realize that sometimes how we don’t really have total control of the outcome. At times we have to adapt to our unfavorable conditions.
Reflection allows us to detach from the excessive need to be in control all the time and let our energy flow towards improving ourselves. Hence reflection aids in removing the emotional burdens that actually serve as barriers to achieve our goals.
It allows you to notice some of the negative patterns occurring around you; whether you keep on coming back to the same toxic relationship or allowing your staff to slack from his job.
You will be able to consider alternate approaches to these events through reflection. Keep your eyes on the bigger picture. Reflect on things you enjoy doing the most. The accomplishments and little success you’ve done hold a lot of value. Recognizing them using self-reflection will make you feel more accomplished than ever.
This way, you will allow yourself to catch and crush negative patterns of thoughts and actions in your life, convince yourself that you will be happy after a certain task.
Always reflect on your decisions. This will help you have a clear vision on what you want to achieve as well as weighing the possible solutions to your problems. Self-reflection gives you a more rational outlook on life.
