Greetings everyone,
This will be both the introduction into freeing yourself in your own personal way or an introduction into magic.
So what is this all about?
Well knowing thyself or knowing yourself is a very important term in any field, many great people talk about that you need to know yourself before you are able to do anything in life. A lot of us though, have lost track and even if we think we know ourselves, we kinda lose ourselves at the same time.
How come?
Well to start off simple this has to do with things like routine in life, but also things like depressions and other negative mental states. Later on we will continue about this.
So to start for real:
Knowing thyself is a basic concept in anything, from finding your dream job till finding your own personal path in life (trust me they can intertwine as well). And as you also can see with the goal we have in mind, it is a very important part of freeing yourself as a person from all the negative influences, by starting to know yourself.
I will start with the idea of Question Everything!
Questioning everything or asking things for proof, is a great way to keep you grounded, while also reawakening your inner child and your curiousities you have towards the world itself.
So it gives both discipline and creativity, while you also obtain knowledge in many ways you have not thought about before.
To actually truly start questioning things, is simply by asking questions of statements of people or opinions.
Not blindly believing everything everyone says and do a lot of self experimentation if you are unsure about their answer. This will also help out building patience and long term growth as a person.
When you are happy enough with this small practice, we simply move on to start questioning about your body movements and and ways of thinking of your own mind.
This can be very difficult, so i recommend to start doing this with the big things and slowly work to the smaller parts.
Even a special diary for this is recommended.
Eventually you start to see and understand things about yourself and the many interactions with your surroundings as well, you start to understand why people like and dislike certain things about you.
After this level you to start to tweak and think about your own personality, this is not to change you. But to bring out the best of you and who you can be! (atleast the start of it)
How are you able to question your personality, well simply write down all of your good and bad traits and try to get both sides up to 20.
This requires a lot of concentration and practice, but you eventually have a good list and notice a lot of sides to your personality as well. Wich is a great thing to explore, it also will show your potentials and weakpoints, things you can improve on or even alchemically change your mindset in.
Alchemically change your mindset?
Well there are multiple things you can do for this and that is take your negative sides and turn them into something productive that you can use in your daily life.
Or you can change it by looking at it in a complete opposite way then being bad, using it as lets say you can be easily scared, wich also means that changing it means that you can be very courages and that you also know that you need to watch out very well at times.
What you can do from this point on with your own mind and personality is all yours.
You can become so much more then you are now, our minds are very very flexibel once we find out about it.
For the bad and good reflection step, you can also use a black and white mirror to create the symbolism around it, to poke your subconsciousness to make yourself a better person.
I have a long way to go though, i have more faults then most people do :P.
