Journey of Personal Discovery — Part 2

So we have started, where next

So you have been jotting down thoughts, emotions, personal personas in a journal for some time. You have not thought too deeply about them and you should not be beating yourself up about any of those moments of discovery. In the next phase we need to start to make sense of what we have discovered. Again these are precious moments that require time and space. Give yourself the time space needed and which you deserve. Remember you are worth it.

From your starting point, the permission you have given yourself to spend time on you, to begin a journey of personal discovery, you have to now make the first step. Believe me this is not easy. You have made many steps in your life, probably not thinking about where the journey would end, or steps which had become a matter of routine to you. This first step though is totally different. It is the first step on the journey to the real you. Take time over this. Understand yourself. You have been gathering valuable information about yourself, precious information, that should be digested.

So the first step is to read over what you have noted and circle round the items that are more frequent. Do not be afraid of what you circle. There will be the good, the bad and the ugly in this. Just circle them and be comfortable that they don’t define you but let them be on the page. Take a note of what you have circled as we will be reflecting on them along your journey.

You should also continue to take note of what is going on around you. Be alive to the process you have already started, collecting the thoughts and feelings of the present moment. This will become your new routine, reflecting on yourself, identifying commonality in those things and understanding how they have come about, which we will reflect on later.

Take the first step in circling the commonalities you discover. Breathe and love yourself. Remember you are worth it, you are loved, so love yourself.