Worksheet no.
13
Write on your worksheets your thoughts and feelings about what you
have discovered and understand about yourself.
Discovering oneself and understanding yourself takes time. You may not be
able to know yourself in a given frame of time. It is difficult to understand yourself. All
the things that we encounter, all the person that we meet gives a contribution in
discovering and understanding yourself. In my entire life, I have encountered many
challenges that sometimes I made to think of ending my life but I had realized that it
was not the solution to my problems. All the problems that I face are the factors
which help me discover my true self because of all the problems I made to know the
real me. Self-discovery means many things. It means finding your purpose in life,
digging deep into your childhood and revealing the experiences that shaped you it
may be good or bad. Realizing your beliefs and living by them. Self-discovery has
effects and this includes fulfillment, happiness, enlightenment and even clarity.
One’s journey is not always an easy road. Journey is always accompanied with
confusion, doubt, misunderstanding, fear and literally re-visiting all your choices in
life. Self-discovery requires making some tough decisions and sticking to them.
What I know for sure is that this journey is worth taking. I am slowly becoming more
aware. I am learning how to pay attention to my feelings and understand myself
better. I am now truthful to myself and now I don’t make unrealistic expectations that
make me set up myself for disappointments. What I know for sure is that being true
to my feelings and acknowledging them as well as validating them has released so
much fear in me. It has released my fear of not being good enough as well as my
fear of not living up to the expectations I set for myself. We surely are our own worst
enemy. I don’t think that these fears will ever go away but now that I am aware of my
true feelings and now that I am becoming conscious of my real beliefs, they no
longer have a strangle hold on my life. I have a hold on how they can or cannot
affect me rather. The best thing everyone could do is to stop being your own worst
enemy, stop lying to yourself about your emotions and feelings. Instead, start
accepting them and allowing yourself to feel whatever is it you feel. Your reward is
the freedom that you feel within yourself. The universe will give you back the love
that you have finally and justifiably started to give yourself.