6 benefits from Self-examination that Help You Take Back Control of your Life

6 benefits from Self-examination that Help You Take Back Control of your Life

“Learning opportunities” life is full of them. And these magikal experiences make life worth living and are the foundation of growth. To really take advantage of this growth opportunity effective self-examination or introspective thought is a key component.

Taking time to focus inwardly can be beneficial in several ways. It allows you to clarify and reaffirm your core beliefs, evaluate if they are still relevant and useful to you, and solidify any changes you want to make to your default behaviour. This is particularly important because life can be unpredictable and challenging, and how you typically respond to it can either hinder or facilitate your ability to not just survive, but thrive. Therefore, paying attention to and adjusting your default behaviour can be a powerful predictor of your resilience and success in navigating life's ups and downs.

It's not always easy to make time for self-reflection and introspection, especially if you tend to have impulsive and reactive default behaviour. In fact, it may feel like a luxury that you cannot afford. However, it's important to recognize that taking this time can be essential for personal growth and development. While it may be challenging to break away from your habitual responses, doing so can ultimately lead to a more fulfilling and successful life.

If you are able to find moments to reflect inwardly, it's important to appreciate and value them. Such introspection can have a profound impact on your default mode network and automatic behaviour. By taking the time to consciously evaluate your thoughts, feelings, and actions, you can gain greater insight into what motivates you and how to respond to situations that arise, particularly during times of pressure. This self-awareness can help you develop more intentional and effective habits and behaviours, enabling you to navigate challenges with greater resilience and success..

Some benefits of introspection and self-examination:

1. Aligned decisions. Quiet moments of self – reflection allow you to calibrate what you would like to remain aligned with and strengthens your connection to your conscience . As well as distinguishing between right and wrong your conscience helps you determine if your actions are in alignment with your being. When you focus on looking inwards, you get the opportunity to go in and sense how being aligned and right feels in your body. As you connect to this feeling part of your body

· Connecting to your feeling body and understanding what it is saying to you help make quick aligned responses.
· This approach helps you maintain a responsive default behaviour , giving you a moment to consider more fully what you are looking at.

2. Strength of Character. Self-reflection forces you to examine the person you are. What makes you tick? What do you believe in? Do these beliefs still hold true? Are you living in alignment? Taking an honest look at your yourself brings you self-knowledge, can help keep you in optimal mental state.

· Take a moment to think of things you may have done or said things that offend or brought happiness to others. Then ask your self: how do I feel about my behaviour. Did it make me feel constricted (sub-optimal)or expanded (optimized)
· In quiet moments, even if it’s a few seconds allow past experiences to bubble up in your mind. Which ones left you feeling the most satisfied? Focus on that feeling and allow permission to feel as often as possible.

3. Fair Minded. Being fair minded is tied in with your moral sense of right and wrong. Introspection allows you to listen to your inner voice of fairness and reason . Enabling a better connection to what is in alignment with you.

· It makes it easier to stay true to your aligned thinking and you will find it easier stay strong while under the bombardment of other people’s opinions on what they feel is right and wrong. Staying true to you allows you to see the other person perspective and quickly decide if it aches you.
· You are 100% accountable for you and how you interact with the world. Being more connected to your own sense of moral right and wrong help keep you on track for you.

4. Defining your happiness. Even the smallest of moments and help you feel what makes you feel happy. What do you see, smell, hear, taste etc that brings you enjoyment. Once you can define the little things that you enjoy you can expand to many little things and then suddenly you are happier.

· Find Joy In The Mundane. Spending time in quiet contemplation is very powerful. When you take a sip of your favourite beverage and you feel that sense of joy. Just hold that pure thought and feeling for as many seconds as you can. Voila you have defined a moment of happiness. Your brain will start colleting them

5. Releasing redundant fear. Its not always about being fearless, it’s not even about feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Fear can be very useful and it is wired into us as a safety mechanism. Quietly examining yourself and the fears you are subjecting ourself to everyday can be very cathartic, some fears are always relevant like walking through a rough neighbourhood at 2am in the morning alone in the dark wearing all your jewel. However stopping in at the shops in the middle of the day with bright lights an plenty of people is redundant.

· If you are afraid of starting a new business is it the fear of failure, humiliation, lose or rejection or is it the fear of change and who are you as a successful business person.
· Recognise if your fear is the truth of your fear and if it is useful or redundant.

6. Accepting you have a choice. You are responsible for the choices you make. And even while things are happening all around you ultimately they are affecting you because of a choice you made. You have more choices than you think! Even if it only the choice on how your respond.

· Optimise your mind and take control of your choices and you will gain control of your life.

Introspective approach to life will facilitate growth and development of your happy muscles.
Take the time each day to just sense your feet or body on the ground or furniture and just breathe and ask. How am I right now?