'True Self'

Even you as yourself, don't always see your true self!

To see it, you have to peel away the superficial layers of your personality and go deep. This is how you can connect with your inner essence and live a happy and fulfilling life.

Tips To Be Your True Self:

There are many ways to get closer to who you really are.

Let's examine some of these solutions below:

1. Meditate

Meditation is one of the ways to help you know yourself better and by knowing yourself better, you can be your true self in life. It is best to sit in a quiet corner of the house or in nature, away from the busyness of everyday life.

Then, put your body in a comfortable position and take a few deep breaths, allowing your body and mind to relax. Try to focus on your breathing and don't think about anything else.

Your inner truth is hidden somewhere deep in your mind and behind the thoughts and habits of everyday life. While meditating, thoughts may interfere with your mind and distract you; It is best to pay attention to the thoughts and feelings you are experiencing and try to see them without judgment.

2. Write about yourself

Writing down your thoughts and feelings daily helps you find yourself on the edge of your writing. When we write for ourselves, we don't worry about how others might see us or judge us, so we can express what we really think.

Writing can also help us categorize and organize our thoughts. To create this habit, you can write down the events, thoughts, and feelings you experienced during the day each night. In the book Write to Happen, you learn how to make your dreams come true by writing.

3. Talk to close friends and ask others for their opinions

Having a close friend is one of the most important components of our personal health. Talking to a close friend about our feelings and thoughts and listening to his feedback and opinions helps us to know the hidden dimensions of our personality better and to discover our true self.

In addition to talking to close friends, listening to what other people say about you is also a useful exercise. Ask them two simple questions:

What strengths do you think I should develop?

What weaknesses do you think I should work on?

Of course, their opinion will not be complete, but their feedback will probably indicate a few areas that you should at least look at again. Sometimes the people closest to us can see things that we may not be able to see in ourselves.

4. Focus on what you are and find your inner peace

We all have standards and ideals of what good qualities are in our minds. Several factors shape these criteria; Factors such as:

Society's expectations (such as the expectation of women to be thin and beautiful by certain standards.)

Family patterns and the way we are brought up

culture

and ...

All these factors create an ideal image in our minds that we try to be like. If we look beyond these standards to our true selves and see who we are, rather than who we think we should be, we can get closer to our true selves.

5. Find your passion

Make a list of your interests and sort them by accessibility. Pursuing our passions is another way to remove the masks of everyday life and find our true selves.

6. Find your strengths and weaknesses

This may be the hardest thing to do to discover who you really are. But one thing is necessary: To find your strengths and weaknesses, you must first try, and know that it is really ok to make mistakes. If after a lot of effort in one area, you do not get results and even feel exhausted and disappointed about your achievements, it is better to use those experiences in other areas of your life, and look for other goals and gain strength in yourself.

7. Evaluate your relationships

When you realize that you never really know someone else until you know yourself, the importance of knowing yourself becomes clearer. This is especially true for business managers, because if you don't know your team members, you will be lost as a manager.

But this law applies to any relation in your life. Others need to know who you are almost as much as you need to know yourself. People need you, your true self.

8. Find your life's 'Why'

What brings you to your full potential?

Are you at that point or are you still struggling to feel safe?

You are probably familiar with Self-Actualization in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a motivational theory in psychology. This five-layer model of human needs in the form of a pyramid assumes that needs at lower levels must be satisfied before individuals can move to higher levels. (.)

Some of the main requirements for a healthy mindset are:

Physiological needs

Feeling Safe ​​(secured)

Affiliation (relations)

Self-esteem, Self-worth (sense of success)

Self-development (reaching full potential and self-knowledge, the change for better).

Basically, when you are in full control, rested, feel safe, and you have a sense of worthiness, belonging and self-esteem, your next step is to find your 'why' in life!

Your 'why' is your actual reason, some may call it 'Dharma' and some may call it their cause or purpose in life. We are happy when we have reason and know why we are on the path that we are and what is our next step, when you know your why, your existence becomes more meaningful and your steps forward become more empowering for you, because you can see beyond day to day existence and are clear about your steps forward, as your sight is not just that single step that carries your physical needs, but the horizon of living more than just existence, your 'why' is your reason to be hopeful and meaningful in life.

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By @ YasGorji