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An ancient wisdom ---- Know thyself

Know thyself is an ancient wisdom. It also means self awareness. It has survived thousands of years. I have observed over the years that religious individuals have less problems of self awareness. Their religious groups and their religious belief systems help them to connect to their psyche, soul and spirit.

In other words it is wise to know ourselves. We grow up in a modern society. Our mind keeps pulling us away from reality. We tend to disconnect from our roots. In this environment of intellectual isolation we grow careless. Recklessness is damaging and dangerous. Are there any modern tools we can use to solve this problem?

How to know ourselves?. How to assess our self awareness?. 'Johari window' is a good tool to use. Some of you may know about it from management training or counselling courses. The term Johari comes from the names of two psychologists, Joe Luft and Harry Ingham. They developed the instrument. To know ourself, we have to travel through the window. We will travel through the window modified by Mortein Feinberg. The four window panes are:

• How you see yourself
• How others see you
• Your idealized self-image
• The GAP

When self scooping through the window:

• Look for small details that our memory keep sending to the surface every time we think of the past.
• Examine the significant floaters that appear, disappear and disappear especially when we are about to sleep off or wake up.
• Look for the things that we consider insignificant but keep recurring.
• Hints like this are markers of our journey. Not easy to understand, but worth trying to understand.

These are the things that have shaped us. So, now, we know how to assess our self awareness.

Posted by DR SOON copyright 2006

posted by DR SOON @ 11:50 PM