One of the most important subject and sub topics of American and Afro-American literature is a quest for 'self'. The logisticians throughout the world and of the considerable number of ages have asked into the subject of who I am and what I am doing here. The worry of inquiry has prompted different speculations and also gossip on the theme of self-exploration. In writing additionally, the exploration for self is a dominating problem of creators of all types. This inquiry is more self-evident, immediate and inconspicuous in the verse for the straightforward reason that verse is essentially melodious and self-portraying in nature. Before we go into that, it is basically vital to comprehend what is self. Self is “a person's essential being that …show more content…
Knowing your inner-self requires high level of thoughtfulness and self-awareness. There are different ways to find yourself, described by Evelyn Lim. With the help of these steps one can easily find oneself. By following these steps, one’s exploration of inner-self may complete faster and smooth. Face Your Demons. Justifiably, looking at your life under a magnifying lens can be discomforting and an obnoxious exercise. In any case, you will be appreciative for beginning the procedure of self-disclosure, since rewards unfurl when you find out about yourself. You have to go up against your intense subject matters and shortcomings, since they uncover the detachment from the genuine You. The genuine You is a valid, cherishing and supporting self. Be that as it may, these negative parts add damaging layers to your Being, causing you misery and disharmony. Negative convictions have a tendency to invade each part of your life. In the event that you have sentiments of low self-esteem, at that point you are probably going to convey them in the connections you have at home, in the workplace, with your companions, relatives and friends and …show more content…
Rather, comprehend the partition and check whether you can make enhancements to your conduct, musings and feelings. Revealing answers will help peel off layer-by-layer the negative musings that have been engraved in your psyche since a very long time back. These negative considerations and convictions have been your snags to inward development. Figure out how to excuse yourself. At the point when your external Self is lined up with your inward Being, you will feel glad and free. Recognize Your Strengths. The procedure of self-disclosure is not just about uncovering awful stuff about yourself. It is additionally about respecting your qualities and capacities. As you turn out to be more mindful of what you are great at, you reduce the rundown on shortcomings. You have to figure out how to love yourself. More often than not, your position of qualities originated from your interests and leisure activities. Rundown down exercises that you appreciate at present or have delighted in before. Discover what makes your heart sing. Discover what keeps you energized. Discover what rouses you. These are the things that characterize
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self- contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.” (Page 180, Paragraph 1, ll 2- 7).
A human being is a complicated entity of a contradictory nature where creative and destructive, virtuous and vicious are interwoven. Each of us has gone through various kinds of struggle at least once in a lifetime ranging from everyday discrepancies to worldwide catastrophes. There are always different causes and reasons that trigger these struggles, however, there is common ground for them as well: people are different, even though it is a truism no one seems to able to realize this statement from beyond the bounds of one’s self and reach out to approach the Other.
Firstly, Self-disclosure is a process of communication in which an individual reveals information about themselves to someone else. The information may be descriptive or evaluative, which may include thoughts, feelings, aspirations,
The Atomistic way of discovering the self is to look into oneself. It is discovering oneself through self-analysis and learning through one’s own experiences. The discoveries and sense of self-developed in this manner are unaffected by the people around the individual.
It is a difficult and long process to find yourself. Erickson tells us that is is a natural stage in life to question who you are. Everyone goes through it, regardless of age, sex, race, or time. Take Chang Yu-i for example. She pulled good experiences in her life, such as having unbound feet and getting some education, and used them to help form who she was becoming But she also took the experiences she did not like, such as discontinuing her education as such a young age to get married, and accepted them as part of who she was. She grew up strong, and eventually became her own person.
By leading carefree conversations, by being energetic and positive all the time I believed I was only meeting the expectations of a new society while my another, thoughtful, pensive, sometimes melancholic and sensitive self was hiding somewhere behind. In the very beginning of the semester, I would lie down on the Quad, look at the humongous moon and the sky full of stars and reflect on life. In the middle of the semester, I looked at the sky with the same intention to think and analyze, but I was deeply disappointed to discover that my reflections had become as superficial and shallow as my daily life, I was not able to find thoughtful Elene, the one I was hiding so carefully. I encountered what a philosopher Martha Nussbaum defines as an “ultimate irony of the divided life”: live behind a wall long enough, and the true self you tried to hide from the world disappears from your own view! The wall itself and the world outside it become all that you
This is the main idea of Waldo’s philosophy. He thinks that a man should learn to express himself. Being yourself will help you to solve the problems of your life. We need to trust ourselves in order to improve our life, like all great men have done. Self-reliance stems from within deep in our soul which is the pillar of our personal power and self-respect. This source of all greatness, sets us free form the ego and helps us to transcend through the ideals of love, truth and justice; some people call this “the moral sense”. The soul cannot be completely defined or described but it is the only thing we can be absolutely sure of, since all other facts are temporary. Being ourselves allows us to obtain many more answers and to understand our unconscious intentions. Humans may exceed their limited ideas by realizing that God does exists and that in Him, we will find many answers if we open ourselves to Him.
... I could see that part of me that caused me harm was starting to show itself and I would act, clearing my mind completely before anything could take hold. As well as eradicating negativity, I also forced my mind into happiness through focus and meditation.
“The nature of self-love and of this human Ego is to love self only and consider self only. But what will man do? He cannot prevent this object that he loves from being full of faults and wants. He wants to be great, and he sees himself small. He wants to be happy, and he sees himself miserable. He wants to be perfect, but he see’s himself full of imperfections” (49). When I was in Vancouver I tried so hard to be able to love myself, but all I could see was imperfections within a very lost soul. I tried to continually fuel this inner pain by turning to drugs to imitate the love and feeling that I was so strongly wishing for, and found that I was pushing myself even further into depression through the continual follies I was making by catering to these wants. “Truly it is evil to be full of faults; but it is still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion” (49). I was full of faults and was unable to recognize them until I was able to step back and reconsider my position and the choices I made. Through my wise decision of moving to Calgary, I was able to realize that I was not perfect and I am full of faults, but that it is something that I have been working on and I have been able to love who I am a substantially larger amount in
Finding yourself can be a long journey people follow on, sometime life surprises our cognitive intellect of how we see thing, but for people want to know the reasons why. By going through Erickson’s identity formation, and Maslow’s model of self-actualization. Throughout studying those two concept, many individuals can know the reason of their behavior in life, not only that, also working improving ones cognitive resolution.
Being aware about myself was not enough to admit the impacts of my weaknesses and how some of these limitations hide my strengths. Some of these weaknesses could be
There is a strong relationship between what you think and how you feel, both physically and emotionally. (Goldman, 2009 p. 117) I am my own worst enemy and I catch myself in negative self-talk mode frequently. I have an audio book I used to listen to frequently called Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. This book gives you strategies on how to fake it when you need to and how you can start to believe in yourself. It is a fascinating book that I have am going to listen to it again with a fresh perspective and journal my thoughts throughout to see if it impacts the way I
In second phase of our life our last developmental stage is focused on creating meaning in one’s life that is sense of fulfillment and ego development and called as ego integrity (Erickson,1997).it works on beyond what we can do and based instead on who we are .It is generally accepted among that the task of the first half of life involves ego development with progressive unification between ego and Self, whereas the second half of life requires a surrender or at least understanding truth of life and Positive stability of the ego as it experiences and relates to the Self (Edinger, 1972, p. 5).
It is a well-known fact that different perspectives or ideologies claim that the lives must be examined in order to know the truth and reality about it. Most of the people think that they know many things and can do lots of works that others cannot. This is the only misconception about them as they in reality do not examine their lives. If they examine their lives, they will exactly reach to the point that they know nothing. Most of the things go beyond people’s understandings because they never go through self-examination. The philosophy of self-examination and self-knowledge has co-combination. It is neither very easy to understand nor very complicated to perform. In addition, most people do not have the knowledge about their lives throughout
We are more than our identities. To know your inner self is to know your purpose, your values, your goals, and your motivations. Aligning with your inner thyself. Knowing your inner self comes from self-awareness, having a clarity of your inner self opens the consciousness and set up a solid focus in self-actualization. Referring to the need of personal growth and development that exists throughout their life cycle. Life is about pushing self in accomplishing goals although a challenge because of risky obstacles that always lands on our track of completion. An individual’s identity is molded by many diverse aspects. Family, culture, friends, personal interests and adjoining environments are all influences that tend to help shape a person’s