YOUR INNER SELF IS YOU

You can be a friend, brother/sister, employee, boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, father/mother, and son/daughter all at the same time, but these are just an aspect of you. That you are a teacher, pastor, politician etc is not really you. Hence, the above are just your status in the society.

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The human person is a composite of two basic elements: Corporeal and non-corporeal elements (body and soul). This, for a human person to function adequately, there must be a unification between these essential elements. Discovering your inner self is finding out what your soul can do when it is united with the body. It is the use of your inner energy found in the soul which is the vital force to realize many of the potentialities which are latent in man. You have everything inside you to become whatever you want to be in life. 

 Your inner self is who you really are on the inside. To know your inner self is to know your purpose, values, vision, goals, motivations, and beliefs. Not what you have been told by others, but what you have discovered for yourself. Knowing your inner self requires a high level of introspection and self-awareness. If you have clarity of at least half of what is listed above, you probably have quite a high level of self-awareness. At the same time, the process of self-discovery never ends — it’s a life-long journey.

Often time, instead of discovering our inner energy, we tend to look for energy elsewhere. Thus, you see young people and some old dudes, taking Indian hemp, marijuana, tramadol, and dry jins which do harm to them in order to high their energies for work or to be able to do silly things. Man has many capacities and capabilities in him to become whatever he wants to be. Man is a being in motion tending toward actuality. You don't need marijuana to high your energy, nor do you need India hemp. Discovering your inner self has no disadvantage to your body rather it improves you as a person and makes you stronger. However, every energy you need is in you and until you make an effort to wake it up, it will be asleep and useless in you.

DISCOVERING ONES INNER SELF DEALS WITH: 

1. Discovering ones inner energy: According to Ajit Kumar Bishnoi, good inner strength gives us self-confidence. It also gives us determination, tolerance, and enthusiasm — all necessary for leading a quality life. People with great inner strength are compassionate and they take pains to purify their existence, which makes them very high-class individuals. It gives us patience, a lot of it, which is required at all times due to our being very small entities.

2. Discovering your values: Considering someone or something to be beneficial to you reflect on things that made you proud, think about what these experiences reveal about your values.

3. Discovering ones purpose in life: It is crucial to discover  the reason for which you are created or for which you came into  existence. On a general note, the purpose of life is to embrace the idea that our purpose in life is to love life fully by putting ourselves into our life! This means we jump in and try new things; we stop resisting the unknown and we fully engage in what is happening right here, where we are. To lead a purposeful life, follow your passions. When we live a passion-filled life we are living on purpose, and that is the purpose of life. That feeling that something is missing goes away when you lead a passion-filled life. 

Finally, you will never find peace of mind except in your inner self: The "You in You". You don't need the world to tell you who you are, your soul already knows. One who looks around himself is intelligent, one who looks within himself is wise, said Matshona Dhliwayo. Your true worth is determined by what you carry in your soul, not in your hands or elsewhere, hence, your highest potential comes from overcoming your lowest self. The real you is the you in you! 


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