Getting to know YOU!

There's someone you really need to get to know.

This person may be someone you already know.

This person may be someone you know only a little.

This person may be someone you think you know.

This person may be someone you actually know very well.

It's YOU!

Do you know yourself? Really know yourself?

Do you know what you like as well as what you dislike?

Do you know your strengths as well as your weaknesses?

Are you willing to express to others when something feels wrong?

All three of these are very important.

Your age, your race, religion, occupation, gender, economics, have little effect on whether you know yourself or getting to know yourself.

Many people get to know themselves through meditation.

Meditation is simply, sitting quietly or laying comfortably, then clearing your mind. Letting yourself feel the sensations of your body as it relaxes, thereby relaxing the mind.

Some people may say they don't meditate or can't or won't.

Do you ever take a nap during the day?

You just meditated.

Do you go to sleep when your day is over?

You went to a meditative state.

Whether you approach sleep with quiet peace or fighting it or with violent dreams, it will have an effect on your waking life.

How you sleep is something many people have control over as well as many people with troubled sleep who need some TLC to improve their sleep experience.

Help can be there in the form of a sleep therapist, otc as well as prescription meds, emotional/mindful therapy, spiritual counsel.

Personally?

Opting for otc meds combined with spiritual therapy works for me.

How do I get to know myself? ~ Many ask this question while many already know themselves or they know how to "get there."

The answer to getting to know yourself is a simple process.

Ask yourself questions as you are laying in your bed in preparation for sleep.

Ask yourself questions as you are driving alone in your vehicle going from place to place throughout your day or night or whenever.

Listen.

Listen to your mind, listen to your body, listen to your spirit.

Tune in.

Open yourself up to new ~ anything ~ within reason.

Obey the legal laws of the area where you physically are!

Try a new food, listen to new music, observe a belief that's foreign to your way of thinking. Explore the great indoors. The options in todays world are so vast, most are at your command.

In the process of explorations, ask yourself.

What is this experience like for me?

Is this something that appeals to me?

Is this something I crave to incorporate into my being? 

Is this something I have tried, can live without?

You tried it! 

Go, YOU!

If there is something you like, good. If you don't, when appropriate, feel free to discard or if someone is trying to coerce or force it on you, feel free to speak up! Accepting or unaccepting. Communicate! 

Preferably, verbally.

It may take personal self confidence, courage, time. Speak up!

The wheel which squawks, gets the grease.

People were designed for verbal communication.

Mind reading? 

C'mon!

(Where we goin? Ha ha!)

Ask yourself questions.

Listen for the answers.

✨ Rejoice in what you find! ✨