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Introspection - what is it for?

The ability of a person, unlike an animal, to turn his attention to himself, and not only to his environment, opened up wide opportunities for introspection.

Self-analysis or self-esteem is the ability from the outside to observe one's actions, experiences, to concentrate attention on oneself in order to understand oneself, analyze one's actions, and give an account of one's intentions. Sometimes introspection replaces a good psychologist, because it is to yourself that you can open many secret places of your soul, and no one will give you better advice than yourself.

Most often, people engage in self-assessment unconsciously, due to the peculiarities of their thinking, and sometimes they stop noticing that the surrounding reality is changing while they deal with their internal problems. A person who is completely focused on himself can gradually fall out of society imperceptibly for himself. And, waking up from being absorbed in himself, a person can realize that a vacuum has formed around him - there is no family, friends, relatives and close people. Then what is introspection for?

The essence of introspection is not to harm yourself and stop in time, drawing conclusions from your own behavior. Self-esteem is necessary when you intuitively understand that you could act differently: treat others differently, treat yourself differently, could stop the chaotic movement through life - to streamline it, could better understand others, because they communicate with you and they see in you what you may not even notice. Introspection helps to find points of contact not so much with yourself as with other people, because in the process of introspection, a true understanding of who you belong to your environment is born, and who the members of this environment are to you.

In the process of introspection, you can:

reveal your own selfishness and begin to destroy it,
realize that you are no worse than others - and love yourself,
sort out your feelings for others and turn these feelings on the person who will appreciate your inner content,
choose a further path of movement through life and direct the energy of the soul and body in the right direction.

Introspection has not bothered anyone yet. But deep introspection, digging into oneself for any reason, reproaches in one's own direction that here he could have acted differently, but here he should not have intervened at all, are capable of constantly traumatizing self-esteem and degenerating into a painful state, for example, depression.

In order not to get tired of introspection, it should not be too delayed. But it is also not worth giving up on it at all - this is the tool that will help in difficult times to get out of difficult experiences and find a fulcrum in life.