Is Self-reflection Important?
Is Self-reflection Important?
Most of us have created a very busy life for ourselves doing everything that society has told us is necessary for us to do to be successful.
This is not necessarily the right formula for everyone to live a satisfactory life because success can never be defined in the same way for all us. Always remember that you are here to live your best life as an individualized soul.
Do you know what that is for you? If not, how will you know what that is for you? Is self-reflection the answer and where you start? Is self-reflection important?
Self-reflection is an extremely important practice to adopt and do regularly especially if you want to continue to live your true, conscious, soul-aligned, purposeful, meaningful, and fulfilling life.
It will help you have a better relationship with yourself by knowing, and understanding who you are, where you have come from, and why you are here right now.
It will also help you identify and appreciate your unique gifts, your soul’s calling, and purpose, and make sure that you know whether you are on your purposeful life path and have set the right aligned vision, mission, and goals for yourself.
You may be wondering what are some questions to ask yourself as you practice self-reflection. Let’s discuss what some of these questions are next.
Self-reflection Questions To Ask Yourself?
If you do not take the time to know yourself then you cannot live your true, authentic, best life. You must sit down and answer these 12 self-reflections mentioned below.
What Are My Top Core Values?
You need to know what your top core values are so that you can create a life of your dreams. Make sure you take the time to figure out what your top core values are by asking yourself what frustrates you the most, and what you care about to help you figure out what your values are.
Your values drive all the decisions that you make in life so the more familiar you are with them the easier it will get for you to make decisions.
For example, if one of your top values is freedom then perhaps you would want to own your business and work for yourself instead of working for someone else who would then dictate what you do while at work and how much vacation and sick time you can take off.
What Beliefs And Principles Are Important?
Do you know what beliefs and guiding principles are important to you? Your destiny will be directed by your identity, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, words, behavior, and habits and you must be aware of them.
For example, if you believe that you reap what you saw or that you treat people the way you want to be treated then those beliefs and principles will guide how you conduct yourself and influence the decisions that you make in your life daily.
What Are My Priorities?
Make sure you know your priorities and that they are reflected in your habits and schedule. For example, if spending time with your family is one of your priorities and if you never do so then you are not prioritizing what is important to you and will feel the consequences and sadness as a result.
This exercise will give you awareness and know whether you need to make changes to the way you live your life so that you can prioritize what you feel is the most important to you and not what other people or society says should be important.
What Are My Unique Gifts?
You like everyone else have been given unique gifts and natural strengths and talents by your creator to fulfill your purpose. Figure out what those gifts are for you and ask yourself are you using them to benefit yourself and others.
If you do not know what they are then ask yourself what did you enjoy doing as a child, what do people compliment you on all the time, what do people to you for advice for.
Also, what comes naturally to you while other people struggle with the same thing or what problems have I gone through in life that I have solved for myself and I can now help others solve. The answer to these questions will begin to give you clues to your purpose and gifts.
What Are My Blind Spots?
Figure out what some of your blind spots are. What stories and excuses are you telling yourself that keep you from doing your work? Do you have fears and doubts that make you feel like an imposter or ask yourself who am I to do this work?
Always remember you were perfectly built by your creator to fulfill your purpose and therefore have the exact body, size, color, race, and gender for your soul’s calling.
Who Do I Want To Be?
Ask yourself who do I want to be? Are you currently living a life that is alignment with your soul? You are an individualized divine expression of your creator.
Create a quiet space and time in your life to connect and listen to your soul and creator. Your soul has all your answers and knows exactly why you are here.
The more you can be your true self which is like your soul-loving, kind, peaceful, joyful abundant, compassionate, pure, divine, wise, and powerful the more you’ll be able to serve your purpose and live a meaningful, blissful, and fulfilling life.
What Energy Do I Want To Bring?
You can serve others with your energy by simply being in their presence. You can do that by raising your energy by connecting to your creator and soul. Be very intentional with the type of energy you bring everywhere that you go.
People will feel a sense of peace, calm, and joy when they are around you if you are aligned with your soul and are vibrating at its higher frequency. Reflect and represent your soul and creator in your every identity, belief, thought, feeling, word, action, and habit.
What Impact Do I Want To Make?
Ask yourself what impact and difference do you want to make. How do I want to serve others? Serve whoever is in front of you in a given moment because that person is sent to you so that you can serve them.
Make it a habit to ask yourself throughout the day how may I serve? Whom may I serve? The right people who need to be served by you will be sent your way.
What Am I Passionate About?
Figure out what you are passionate about, what excites and inspires you, motivates and engages you because that particular thing is the clue to your life’s purpose and why you are here.
What Are My Limiting Beliefs
Most of the decisions that we make in life are based on our subconscious mind which has been programmed since we were little kids.
You may have formed an Identity, have a belief, and thoughts that drive your feelings, words, and behavior that do not serve you and help you fulfill your purpose.
Be aware of these beliefs and ask yourself if they are true. The sooner you realize that the limiting beliefs are not true the sooner you can prevent it from keeping you from fulfilling your purpose.
It is better to live your life with beliefs that serve you than the beliefs that don’t serve you.
What Do I Want?
Make sure you are crystal clear on what type of life you want to create for yourself. Have a vision for every area of your life.
Ask yourself what is my purpose, and life mission are, what your perfect day looks like, where do I live, who do I live with, what are my goals in the different areas of your life, etc.
When Am I At My Best And Come Alive?
Know when you feel your very best, joyful, and happiest. When you start living your purposeful life in alignment with your soul you will feel blissful and no other feeling will ever compare to how good you will feel despite the outer circumstances and situations that you will encounter.
This elated feeling will serve as a clue that you are on your purposeful life path.
In conclusion, you now know self-reflection is an extremely important practice to adopt and do regularly especially if you want to continue to live your true, conscious, soul-aligned, purposeful, meaningful, and fulfilling life.
It will help you have a better relationship with yourself by knowing, and understanding who you are, where you have come from, and why you are here right now.
I hope you will take the time to answer the 12 questions that we discussed in this article and start living your purposeful life!
Next, read What is consciousness for further helpful tips and insights.