Personal Reflection On The Field Of Human.
So you do your due diligence as a personal development junkie: You reflect on how you can improve, you journal your goals and your Og, and you conjure up solutions to your woeful problems. People in personal development spheres practically beat themselves in the head with journals and planners and…. But what if self-reflection was, due to some gnarly unforeseen paradox, the very worst thing you could be doing to further your growth? This is the problem with self-reflecting: You are basically bathing in a sea of your own shit with the goal of trying to get clean.
Personal Reflection: An Examination of Cultural Identity
Sorry to tell you. By and large, we all follow the same train of thought in every area of our lives. When we self-reflect, we run the risk of burying ourselves deeper in the hole we from which we were originally trying to get out. Instead of becoming broader, our vision becomes more narrow, more deeply entrenched in our preexisting narrative and our prior expectations. We make lateral progress, not forward progress. We aim, we shoot, and we miss the mark. This is particularly true for complex problems like depression, addiction, general apathy, and overall dissatisfaction in life.
Article source surprise! So how do we harness the power of self-reflection to actually change our lives? It requires the ability to actually step aside from your adorable little monkey mind, the one that free associates words and pictures and ideas from deep, subconscious, limbic structures that have been brewing for eons. Objectivity is a hard-earned skill. In fact, apart from sleeping, there is nothing seemingly less effortful than sitting on a meditation cushion for 30 minutes. But I guarantee you, if you try to meditate for 30 minutes, you will not be laughing. Dear reader, you would do well to heed this seemingly exaggerated advice: meditation is the single most difficult but rewarding practice you will ever undertake.
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