Self Discovery

Working on Characteristics

  1. Helps determine life-style
  2. Sobering (Learn things about yourself)
  3. Changes your perception of what is around you
  4. Need to step out of your comfort zone
  5. Search for self acceptance
  6. Roles you play and what that means
  7. Ongoing throughout life
  8. Reaveals bias and prejudice
  9. Can involve others
  10. Life-long journey
  11. Personal experience
  12. Trial and error
  13. Can be conscious and unconscious
  14. Built around what you love so first you need to find what you love.  It involves reflectionand listening to your intuition.
  15. Experience and how you respond.
  16. Reflection on your experience and what effect that has (learning from your mistakes)
  17. Parental influence (values) is this something you want to perpetuate yourself.
  18. Those who are not religious pick and choose from traditions and ideas/philosophies.
  19. Religious folk find themselves within their own traditions.
  20. Death and birth both effect a person's discovery.
  21. Interpretation effects a person's understanding.
  22. Understanding of empathy.
  23. Autonomy
  1. Compassion
  2. Understanding that life is a cycle = respect for nature
  3. Humbling.
  4. Understanding your beliefs and challenging them.
  5. Open to change.
  6. Gradual process
  7. Deliberate or spurred by someone else
  8. Responsibility and accountability that you are not necessarily proud of.
  9. Growing up -- transition to adulthood being self-reflective.
  10. Balance (finding) could be a goal.
  11. Interdependance/Isolation
  12. Language is limiting and has boundaries.
  13. Saying and doing are different.  You can speak one thing and your body can betray this.  (Lie detector)
  14. Awakening our experiences.
  15. How we come to understand.
  16. Challenging, frustrating, expected, unexpected, purpose and outcome.
  17. Influencing a frame of mind or emotion.
  18. Negative discovery (if it's bad is that self-discovery)?
  19. Working toward an integrated mind, body, spirit.
  20. Discovering personal strengths and weaknesses.
  21. Insight into behaviour, habits, or sayings.  (i.e. (He intimidates me.  She makes me feel stupid)
  22. A time that one can solidify what one stands for.