The desire to know oneself is seen in all people. The thought of learning something about oneself that one does not know creates great excitement. This excitement is actually a feeling of curiosity mixed with fear. Although it may seem surprising to experience such feelings, this situation arises from the fact that human beings are aware that they have something they are hiding from themselves. Not everyone can understand themselves or make sense of their behavior from time to time.
Knowing oneself is often thought of as finding the unconscious sources of one's behavior. However, this is a big mistake. Self-knowledge is about knowing the functioning and knowable content of one's own spiritual processes, rather than finding unconscious resources.
Self-knowledge is about knowing what is happening within oneself psychologically and physically, being aware of what is happening within oneself, and evaluating them correctly. It refers to knowing and being aware of a person's physical characteristics, emotions, thoughts, wishes and needs, strengths and weaknesses, goals and values, abilities and skills. A person who knows himself well can foresee what he will feel, what he will think and how he will behave in the face of what he will experience.
Although when self-knowledge is said, it is essentially meant that a person is aware of his own spiritual characteristics and knows his own spiritual characteristics, he is aware of his body. Being a person is closely related to knowing oneself. Although many people are aware of their physical characteristics, they do not want to acknowledge some of them – they act as if they do not exist. For example, while most people do not consider themselves fat, some people who are shown to be at normal body weight by objective criteria may consider themselves fat. Some of these people with normal body weight are also influenced by these evaluations and engage in various efforts to lose weight. This example shows that there is a mistake in the person's evaluation of his body and that he does not know his body sufficiently or accurately.
Recognizing a person's spiritual characteristics is a situation that is more difficult than recognizing his physical characteristics; however It can be achieved with long-term, patient and persistent effort. On the other hand, self-knowledge is a process that has no limits/end. Having no limits stems from human nature. The functioning of the human mind and the unconscious prevent people from fully knowing themselves. The most superficial form of knowing oneself is knowing how one will behave in which situation and what kind of emotions one will experience. Beyond that, it involves analyzing the spiritual dynamics layer by layer. This analysis is possible by considering both unconscious, preconscious and conscious psychological processes and seeing the relationships between these psychological processes.
Self-knowledge is a more difficult process than it seems. Observing and interpreting one's own behavior and testing the accuracy of one's interpretations with subsequent experiences; It requires the ability to stop judging oneself and others, at least at certain periods, to bravely face what one encounters, and to endure the emotions one experiences. In the process of getting to know oneself, taking the evaluations of others from time to time and observing the effects they have on other people provides useful information. Those who show courage and work hard for this difficult journey reap the fruits of their efforts by establishing more qualified and satisfying human relationships. Establishing qualified and satisfactory human relationships is possible by knowing oneself and other people.
Many people who try to get to know themselves often resort to surveys and scales prepared for this purpose. It should be kept in mind that although such surveys and scales can provide useful information, they are not decisive on their own. Especially the results obtained in surveys not prepared with scientific methods should be considered as a clue at best, and the accuracy of this should be tested in daily life.
Those who want to engage in self-knowledge will be given some components to understand the human being who continues to exist as a biopsychosocial whole. It should not be forgotten that these components, defined based on professional and daily experiences, are a guide, have not been tested by scientific research, need to be constantly renewed, and will always have shortcomings. The most important thing to mention One of the issues is that the first stop in the journey of self-knowledge is to gain knowledge about the functioning of the mind (spiritual life) and to understand the functioning mechanisms of the mind as much as possible, and those who want to embark on this journey should obtain as much information on the subject as possible.
A GUIDE TO KNOWING YOURSELF
Body
Describe your physical characteristics:
General appearance of your body
Appearance of your face
Your body weight
Your height
Your skin color
Physical your feelings and thoughts about your features
Whether you like it or not
Whether you like it or not
What others think about your physical features
How your physical features affect your daily life It affects
Emotion
Are you aware of the emotions you are experiencing?
“What emotion am I experiencing right now? What could be the source of my feeling?
“Does the feeling I experience have anything to do with what I think?”
“Does the feeling I experience have anything to do with the people around me?”
“Conflict What kind of emotions do I experience during the process?”
“Being aware of how one's emotions will direct oneself”
Thought
Do you always know what's on your mind and why you think that way?
"What am I thinking right now, what could be the source of my thinking like that?"
"Do the emotions I'm experiencing right now affect what I think?"
Behavior
Can you predict how you will behave in the face of the events you experience?
Do the emotions you experience affect your behavior?
“What am I doing right now?”
“Why am I behaving like this?”
“What could be the sources of me behaving like this?”
Wants and needs
Describe your wants and needs
Are you aware of what you like and what you don't like?
Purpose and values
Your goals in life as an individual Describe
Describe your moral, ethical, social and individual values
Abilities and skills
Your abilities, Describe your skills, strengths and weaknesses
Are you aware of what you know and what you don't know?
Do you know what you can and cannot do?
Social environment
Describe your way of establishing relationships with people
Describe the social environment you are in and your role within your social environment
Describe your strengths arising from your social environment
Your Personality Traits
Describe what kind of person you are
Describe your coping strategies and coping power
p>Describe your conflict resolution style
How much is your conflict resolution style affected by the emotions you experience?
Which adjectives describe you best (hardworking / lazy, responsible / careless, patient / impatient?) Define and specify (such as impetuous, optimistic / pessimistic)
Are you a person who avoids conflict?
Do you want to win the conflict no matter what?
Are you a conciliator?
Can you compromise?
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