Introspection Tools to Help You Heal Your Emotional Wounds ⋆ Earth and Water

Introspection was a term I came across when someone wrote a guest post for Earth and Water. During proof reading, I had to google the definition for it. I love words and this one spoke to my soul.

in·tro·spec·tion

/ˌintrəˈspekSH(ə)n/noun

the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.”quiet introspection can be extremely valuable”synonyms:brooding, self-analysis, soul-searching, heart-searching, introversion, self-observation, self-absorption; More

I had been practicing this for my entire life without knowing there was a name for it. It’s stuck with me since because it is such a valuable word and act. Through knowing ourselves, we can gain access to our highest being. Who we are at a core and spiritual level.

When we can unlock this inner truth, we can become balanced, aligned and more in ease and flow with our lives, ourselves and the world around us. Reaching this state of knowing and being is truly invaluable.

The many faces of introspection

Introspection is the art of understanding who you are. This can be done by many different methods since the topic of “who am I” has fascinated people for centuries. There is, after all, no topic known to mankind that people are more interested in than themselves.

Astrology

Astrology is one of my favorite introspective tools. In a nutshell, your birth chart, which tells us exactly what was going on in the sky at the moment of your birth, gives us clues to who you are and what life has planned for you. It can point us toward the path of alignment through self understanding.

Astrology gets a lot of haters for being “vague” but it is an introspective tool and not for fortune telling. It can tell us that there may be hardships you will face but never specifically what those hardships will be. It can provide understanding in situations and circumstances that you may be battling with.

The introspection it provides can help us to make sense of who we are, who those around us are and why we all are the way we are.

Journaling

Journaling is a broad term that encompasses a lot of different things. All involving words and sentences but all in different forms. Introspective journaling can be keeping a diary, a bullet journal or routinely doing a brain dump. Any way you can keep notes of what you think, do, feel, notice, etc.

Writing these things down is powerful for analytical purposes. When you’re journaling, you’re organizing your thoughts, viewing situations from a different perspective and allowing yourself to process thoughts, actions and situations.

When you give yourself space to work through these things, you begin to notice patterns and belief systems you carry that need worked through.

Meditation

Creating space for meditation works similarly to journaling but instead of writing, you’re sitting quietly with your thoughts. When you can learn to be alone with yourself, you’ll begin to understand more fully who you are.

Try meditating on who you were as a child, before people and society imposed their own identity on you. The more we learn about ourselves, the more we realize that we knew all along.

Ayurveda

Knowing your Ayurvedic dosha can help you to understand your body and mind and how to work with it in harmonious balance for optimal health. When you understand your dosha, you understand how certain things affect you and how you can better manage your specific dietary and activity needs.

Tarot & Intuition

I know next to nothing on tarot currently as far as the logistics of it go. I use them from time to time as intuitive tools, asking a question, drawing a card and allowing my intuition to tell me what it means.

Tapping into your intuition in whatever way calls to you is a wonderful form of third eye activating introspection. When you can learn to trust your inner knowing and voice, you can more easily flow through the quests of life.

Here’s a post on it.

Myers & Briggs

There are a ton of personality quizes you can do online to gauge insight into who you are. One of the most legit, extensive and formal tests out there is the Myers-Briggs. Expect this in depth quiz to take you a good 15-20+ minute chunk of time but you’ll come out on the other side with inner knowledge of yourself you didn’t have before.

It’s also a doorway into finding like minded people. Just type in the acronym for your result into any social media search and come across tons of others who got the same result. I’m INFJ in case you were wondering.

Extras

There’s tons more out there that I, myself just aren’t super familiar with such as numerology, past life regression, some day-of-the-week-you-were-born thing that was pretty accurate for me and my family and human design which is an extensive thing that I have yet to fall down the rabbit hole of.

If you have any other introspective tools that I left off, tell us in the comments below! Also tell us your Myers-Briggs and sun/moon/rising signs if you know them! Happy introspection!

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Introspection Tools to Help You Heal Your Emotional Wounds