Why it is important to know yourself.
Importance of building and gaining self-image
Knowing your true self grants you discernment
Knowing your true self allows you to discern your personal definition separate from society’s definition of you. The importance of knowing your true self is that it saves you from making a fool of yourself.
Just because you can twerk in your head doesn’t mean you’re that in real life. I’m not saying that twerking is bad. Everyone should be the honest version of themselves. Keywords: the best version of yourself! Everyone’s honesty is not the same.
If there’s a part of you that keeps feeling uncomfortable when you do certain things, it may be smart to refrain. Let’s never underestimate the power of peer pressure. You may lose track of who you are sometimes but it is very important to always find your way.
Always have a clear vision of the bigger picture at the back of your mind. Cross-check If your actions are in harmony with your big picture. When your heart feels uncomfortable please listen to it.
Particularly, don’t force yourself to do things that go against who you want to be. This matters the most. Who you want to be, not who you were. That hesitation your heart has may be what your truth is. It’s a real disposition towards the issue at hand.
Self-definition gives you confidence in your strengths and ready knowledge of limits.
When you grasp some hold of your true self and nature, it’s easy for you to identify your strengths and weaknesses and use them. You know what you’re capable of and what you’re incapable of.
Subsequently, play your strengths to excel. Knowledge of weaknesses helps to manage or avoid weird and awkward situations. I have confidence in my strengths as a person. I am resilient and I love that so much. It gives me the confidence to know that if I fall, I will get up again and I’m confident in that knowledge.
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Overall, knowing your true self plays a role in building your self-esteem, awareness, knowledge, and understanding of yourself. With this knowledge, we can carve our own places in society.
I feel better about myself knowing intimate details about myself. Identifying the physical qualities of my body, and my nature.
Spotting the things that need to be taken care of, and researching ways to take care of them, has helped enhance the way that I look at myself.
I began taking care of myself, obviously battled my lips insecurity with taking proper lip care, and accepted my hip dips with patience and good food plans. I began to take care of myself with love. Striving to acquire more knowledge on things, and I even relate better with other people especially because I’m not expecting them to understand me the way I do myself.
Knowing your true self helps you avoid extremely dodgy and messy situations.
You can tell your emotions about some things from a mile before they drop.
For instance, on my journey of defining myself based on introspection, I have a grasp on my trigger zones, my personal expressions of love language, and myself basically. I know I tend to overshare, so I have to be conscious of what I say to other people when interacting with them.
Especially for people who aren’t playing any significant roles in my life, there is always the subconscious in my head filtering my words and helping me backtrack when I even overshare a tiny bit. It’s not about being perfect, perfection can exist in fractions of time or moments.
Knowing your true self adjusts your expectations to reality.
The journey of self-definition makes us realize we can be hypocrites sometimes with double standards.
In my mind, I could know the right thing to do but in reality, I wasn’t doing the said right thing. I’d judge myself based on the actions in my head. My thoughts and my behavior were two different things. I even expected better of other people when I wasn’t better myself.
The knowledge of this frustrated me and even if I judged myself negatively for a while. I got over my judgments and actually attempted to make a change.
I’m extremely conscious of myself, when I’m being a hypocrite, I hold myself accountable. When I’m expecting people to do things for me that I can’t do for them or for myself, I hold myself accountable for such double standards.
How to accept life and reality
Doing unto others what I’d want them to do to me. When you identify these, it makes it easy to keep yourself in check and helps align your thoughts and actions with your core values.
Checks narcissism:
self-definition helps you identify negative traits in yourself as well as positive traits. One such negative trait is narcissism.
This is the more dramatic way of being selfish. You never ever care or love anyone but yourself. When you identify these traits through introspection, you can find ways to check them out and curb the traits of narcissism.
Setting boundaries:
Self-definition gives you knowledge of your weaknesses and strengths. This knowledge should be used to create safe and healthy boundaries for yourself and for other people. This way you can avoid sticky situations that invite turbulent emotions.
Avoid people and places that make you identify yourself negatively. Suppose your friend group specializes in gossiping, and you’re trying to reduce the way you’re in other people’s businesses. In that case, you should set up boundaries and dissociate from such companies which make you see yourself in an unpleasant way.
Conclusion
We all deserve to know ourselves in the most honest versions possible. We should love the people are and work towards being the people we truly want to be.
Self-definition is not the judgment of one’s self. It’s learning about yourself as a being. This encompasses your mind, your choices, your emotions, and your attitudes. You are dependent on variables, influenced by your immediate society’s aggregate mindset, choices, emotions, and actions.
The knowledge gained from introspection enables refine ourselves every day as we should, into the best version of ourselves possible.
As long as we live, we are susceptible to change. We are not solidly independent islands. Our lives are dependent on the factors surrounding us. (Consciously or not, from the day we were born) Our minds are like sponges that absorb everything given to them.
Don’t be stuck up, be fluid and willing to learn more and explore your horizon. You are human, treat yourself with kindness.
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