Top 10 Benefits of Self-Discovery

Self-Discovery is the process of gaining intellectual insight into ourselves holistically and the emotional journey of understanding our thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions, beliefs, values, choices, desires, needs and aspirations. When we have the ability to make a decision for ourselves in a manner that best suits our growth and development, we are not only self-aware, but have the conscious ability to set direction and purpose in our lives in a way that enables life long growth and development.

Here are 10 of the top benefits to self-discovery:

1. EMOTIONAL STABILITY

When we understand our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors we have the ability to make conscious decisions. With understanding, we can learn new ways to manage and process our thoughts, emotions and behaviors to get the results we seek. Emotional stability means life stability. When our thoughts, emotions and behaviors are aligned, we are not distracted by the ebbing and flowing of our unconscious behavior patterns and can focus our time and energy on meaningful pursuits instead. When we have emotional stability, we know what we believe, value, need, desire, aspire, and feel. Emotional stability gives us personal power and personal power gives us personal choice.

2. CONFIDENCE

When we have the personal power to choose what is best for ourselves, we will naturally feel confident and self-assured. Personal power gives us the inner-security, courage and strength of character to stand on our own. In times when we must stand separate from others in our values and beliefs, it is our self-assurance and self-confidence that enables us to do so. When we know who we are, where we are going and how we are going to get there, we become unstoppable. Unwavering confidence means clarity of boundaries and choices. It means walking in integrity, dignity and autonomy.

3. AUTHENTICITY, VOICE & LEADERSHIP

When we have confidence, we see the value in ourselves and in what we have to give the world. We believe in our unique voice and seek after ways to release our authentic self and express the thoughts, ideas and vision only we can release. We begin to understand that there is something on this earth only we can give and our focus shifts from auto-pilot living to purpose driven living with the sole plan of serving others and giving the gift of ourselves. Leadership is born out of self-discovery and true leadership is all about service.

4. RESPONSE ABILITY

Once we discover ourselves and gain emotional understanding of ourselves, we gain natural maturity and character development. Things like temperance, tolerance, patience, compassion, empathy, trust, and courage increase. With this increase, we gain greater ability to manage our life and its challenges. Our overall health and wellness improves and we feel more equipped to take on more responsibilities. Our ability to help others increases as well as our desire to help others.

5. OPPORTUNITY

With increased abilities comes more opportunities. We become more aware of opportunities all around us. In addition we gain more skills and tools that we can use to leverage these opportunities. What was before impossible is now possible. Suddenly, we see open doors where we never even saw a door. Ideas and inspiration seem to come more often and we begin to believe in the ideas and inspiration and develop desire and aspiration to chase after this inspiration. Purpose and direction begin to form and with that purpose and direction, we begin to see meaning and the hope of fulfillment simultaneously emerge.

6. CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

One of the most shocking things that emerges with self-discovery is critical thinking or higher order thinking skills. Einstein’s theories begin to make sense to us, what was once rocket science suddenly isn’t rocket science anymore. While we cannot explain it, we can feel that our intelligence is radically increasing. The reason for this is as our emotional self matures and grows, this affects our cognition. We gain more access to our prefrontal cortex which is no longer in fight/flight and we gain insight and understanding to processes such as problem solving, decision making and process of elimination. When we can perceive more, we can see more possibilities. We go from being stumped by what the heck Tesla was talking about when he said that everything could be understand through energy to seeing the theory of energy with our own eyes.

7. FAITH, TRUST, INTUITION and the TRUTH OF UNIVERSAL LAWS

As we develop our emotional selves, we gain insight and understanding into ourselves. We come to believe in the power of our intuition and intention setting and the belief in receiving. We begin to see and understand things like universal laws such as cause and effect and the science behind them. We see how everything is interconnected and we can begin to make predictions about things. With so much heightened awareness naturally builds faith and trust in the process and in how it all works. And with that faith and trust, our ability to believe in our own intuitive experiences grows. After we experience enough synchronicity and knowing experiences it becomes undeniable that there is literal magic happening all around us. With all that evidence our minds become opened to the idea that Universal Laws & Truth may actually be a real thing. When we allow ourselves to consider this, we come to realize that self-truth precedes universal truth; that self-discovery is the essential gateway to unlock Universal Truth.

8. IMPROVED RELATIONSHIPS

When we understand ourselves, we will naturally understand others. When we understand other’s free will and have the personal power to authentically love others we have the power to engage relationships in a manner that is not dysfunctional. When we have this power, no matter the dysfunction, we will possess the knowledge and understanding of how to respond, how to maintain emotional stability and how to see and respect other’s boundaries in all situations while self-caring. What is more, we will have the ability to see other’s genuine needs and desires and when applicable meet them. Part of improved relationships is the ability to humbly and authentically serve others. Once we can understand that service is the highest goal of relationships, we will socialize in a whole new way.

9. HEALING & FORGIVENESS

When we have the capacity to see relationships in a whole new way, we will also have the ability to understand forgiveness and the power of using relationships as a conduit to healing. Healing happens in relationships. It happens in relationships because only when we can feel the triggers and consciously choose not to engage with dysfunctional behaviors, but instead stay with our feelings, let them arise and teach us and process them can we release the emotions that are hooking us into unhealthy relationships. As we release these emotions, we will simultaneously release any resistance we have with the person to forgive them and the forgiveness will happen automatically. Healing is the process of gaining consciousness on the paralyzed parts of us frozen in time from trauma or injury and making the conscious choice to nurture and support these parts of us until they can mature and understand enough to integrate into our adult self. The more healing and forgiveness we do, the more integration that happens until we become a fully integrated human being.

10. ABUNDANCE

When we no longer have any blocks within us, there is nothing blocking the flow of abundance. Abundance is always present. It’s never not here. What is blocking us from receiving abundance is our unhealed emotions and beliefs. Once we align our feelings, thoughts and actions entirely with our authentic self, all that’s left is the natural flow of abundance. Abundance could mean experiencing fulfillment and meaning 100% of the time, it could mean health and prosperity, it could mean achieving a dream…

Abundance is the absence of resistance.

When we are no longer experiencing resistance in any aspect of our lives, we will automatically experience abundance.

FINAL THOUGHTS

As you can see there are SO many benefits to pursuing a self-discovery journey! To me, the greatest reason to pursue a self-discovery journey is self-connection. We spend so much of our lives outside of ourselves focused on other people’s needs and wants that it can be challenging to find self-presence. Only after we understand that there is a small person inside of us who needs just as much attention, love, support, educating, and nurturing as those around us can we understand the importance of integration. Integration is the process of maturing all the parts of ourselves until we become whole and no longer fragmented by these frozen parts of our younger selves.

Seeing this inner child is not easy. It’s not like the people right beside us that our physical eyes and ears can see and hear. Self-Discovery at its core is about acquainting ourselves with our inner self and all its parts and learning how to listen to him, her, they, so that we can gain our self-truth. With this self-truth, we will gain eternal knowledge and wisdom that will act as its own guiding system making reading posts like this inessential. THIS is my hope for you, Discoverlies! My hope is that you might know yourself, see the world as it really is and become the person you were born to become!

Much Love!