Do You Know Yourself?

 Okay so first of all let me tell you, this is not some deep wisdom blog asking you to dive deep within & find your true purpose or your true self! This is just me, sharing my experience, of how I got to know myself better, know what's really going on within me!

This is out of my comfort zone to openly admit on the internet that I have been seeing a therapist for a while as most people see it as taboo. But that is what Therapy does to you, gives you the confidence to be yourself.

But what else happens when you start knowing & especially start understanding yourself better? YOU HEAL. I had a lot of self-doubt & PTSD, that I simply suppressed within, something that was hurting me. I was not healing from that pain simply because I was not aware of the root cause. I knew all the practical steps it takes to move forward & let it go, but I was not able to actually do it, because I was working on healing the symptoms instead of the Cause. 

That is where my Therapist helped me. She made me realize, that I was asking the wrong questions all this while. Honestly, it was not easy accepting the truth of what was going on inside me & to stop being so harsh on me. I learned that the voice inside me that was causing me severe anxiety for years was actually my friend! It may sound strange or maybe even illogical to you, but this realization actually helped me overcome my anxiety. Since that session, my perspective towards that voice & everything it was saying changed in a literal sense & I haven't experienced anxiety, that used to be like a part of my daily routine.

Since I started asking the right questions to myself, I started discovering a lot about myself. Stuff that I was totally unaware of. It's easy to know things about yourself like I am like this & I am like that & I believe in this & I totally hate that... But, knowing yourself on a deeper level like why I am like this & why I like that & why I hate that is just a whole different level of self-awareness.

This journey is different for everybody and the way to know the real you is also unique to each individual. But don't you think it is worth knowing the only person who is there with you from birth till death in all the thick & thin of life- Yourself. I hope this inspires you to take the journey within & explore an amazing soul that resides in there!