Looking Inside

 

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Mag inusara sab anay panyagsa. By being with yourself, you can evaluate your days. Your pains can become sources of your strength once you examine them well. You can even write your feelings of disgust, dismay, your joys and appreciation and review them later. These things are empowering.

Reflection is an important part of the loop to go through in order to maximize the utility of having experiences. Rather than moving on to the next ‘task’ we can review the process and outcome of the task and – with the benefit of a little distance (lapsed time) we can reconsider what the value of experience might be for us and for the context it was part of.

Is self-reflection correlated to a person’s intelligence?

Individuals that have compelling self-awareness make better leaders, become more successful in life, and achieve better satisfaction at what they experience in life than those without it since they have a more profound comprehension of human feelings and can think and resolve issues inventively and compassionately. Therefore, self-awareness does make people fall in the bracket of intelligence (Raypole, 2020).

In the bible, Jesus was mentioned reflecting and praying a lot in quiet areas. Some Christians have taken the position that self-reflection is too close to the concept of Eastern meditation but that is not necessarily the case. Eastern forms of meditation are designed to empty the mind, but Christian meditation and self-reflection intend to bring you into a quiet place with God where you can intimately converse with him about your experiences and emotions.

Kirkman (2019) mentioned: Without creating the space to have this self-reflection and communication with God, you will likely operate on autopilot, being driven by values instilled by your culture, family of origin, and immediate community. Intentional self-reflection is aimed at creating space for you to sit with God and ask meaningful questions about life and your relationship with Him.

Let us not be distracted with the noise surrounding us. Let us not be victimized by the commercialism of our times that even during the Holy Week, the social media pressure us to go on a vacation instead of going to church and reflect.

Kay sa aja da kaw masipanhaud sa iban, kilay-a anay an imo kaugalingon.