what are us?

In today’s society, information, facts, and even concepts like “to be” are taken as concrete, but our intuition, emotions, and somatic response — what is our internal feel, what are our boundaries to manage the interior of our bodies — are all treated as “make-believe”. When we ask how we “should be”, we are given a scientific study or a statistical survey. This supposed to provide us with a “normal” life-generating response and stifle our desires, which is “OK” to develop companies and economies, but not humans.

Most of us try to live up to the images we associate with ourselves, and translate these visions into lofty plans. Without even considering it, we are manipulated into becoming preoccupied with what others want from us — into getting “likes”. Acceptance through affection impedes our ability to agree with ourselves, but it also strengthens the assumption that we are in good standing. At the same time, others may think we are envious, unproductive, promiscuous, or that we are exercising noxious masculinity and patriarchy.

Many people would rather avoid forming their lives, they just want to know how to acomplish everything. In this parade of compulsive hunt for knowledge, the search term changes, but the method of inquiry does not. We can begin to understand that knowing suggests intimacy with knowledge when we outpress the method and what we have contained, eager to reshape our notions. Once we stop clutching to the predefined plan, we can constrain ourselves back from being normal and self-determine our true values.

what is introspection?

We are engaged in introspection when we reflect on our thoughts, sensations, emotions, and memories and examine what they mean. When we seek to understand prominent aspects of ourselves and make a distinction between first-person knowledge of our own minds and objective, externally available information. When we constantly develop our own methods of exploring the self and interact in a procedure of consciousness-raising.

Introspection is not a specific process that is distinctively aimed at gaining insights about a psychological state. There are dozens of situations and practices that can be introspective, some of which don’t seem to be self-reflective at all and some of which contrast others in terms of their workings and depth of understandings they exhibit. By contemplating and actualizing unconscious material, it is possible to transform one’s mental state and attain solutions to irritating disputes.

Practice of skillful thought, the functional process of introspection, allows us to spirit into personal psychology as one dives into reading a book, illuminating our inner sentiments. It helps us to deliberate our beliefs and desires, to find our voice and speak for ourselves. To study our inner world and integrate our notions with what is in the world around us. To work with our roles and personalities, and the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us.

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