Reflect, the key to Self Awareness!

In our fast paced lifestyle we hardly get any time to reflect on our past or present situations, when you look back at yourself and your life over a specific period of time, you get better at understanding yourself and become aware of your life’s dwellings. Some people might find this a little difficult but as you get accustomed to the idea of reflecting on yourself, you feel comfortable and at ease for the amount of time you spent with yourself. Self-reflection is asking yourself a specific set of questions and answering them in a correct manner. Here are a brief list of questions you can ask yourself teaching you how to self-reflect:

Simply look back at the by gone period may be yesterday or some months back, and ASK YOURSELF WHAT WENT WELL. There may be some things in life, which are unforgettable and you know for sure that those were the best times where everything went WELL with you, the term “well” means the things you were successful at, the things which made you happy. Whatever you may come across put them down on a list and keep counting your achievements.

Get back to your BAD TIMES, take up a specific time period where nothing went as per your wishes, all your efforts went hay wire and you achieved nothing in the end. This list would be exactly opposite of your above stated list, it would help you reflect on your past and help you analyze the situation to improve upon them the next time.

The above two lists are the reflections of your past, the positive and the negative results of all the endeavors of your life, life’s game keep changing and so the results for the step you take in your life. The next step, is to ASK YOURSELF THE “WHY” question, if particular thing didn’t work out well what was the reason behind it, what went wrong. Answering the “WHYs” would help you analyze and give you clues about things that made you feel excited, alive, energized and also point you towards your life’s failure and give you learning lessons of your life.

Reflecting on your inner self is reflecting on your achievements and failures in life, if you don’t reflect there wouldn’t be any learning lessons in life.