Introdución ao autocoñecemento

Introduction to Self-Knowledge

• Self-knowledge is a lifelong, continuous, and essential pursuit.
• It involves understanding why things are interpreted a certain way.
• Recognizing patterns, repeated experiences, and blockages is vital.
• Personal value systems and beliefs about oneself are important aspects.
• Modern digital life often hinders self-knowledge due to information overload.
• Identifying too strongly with labels limits personal growth and experiences.
• Self-knowledge improves self-confidence, self-esteem, and emotional management.
• Differentiating between truly knowing yourself and identifying with labels is essential.
• People often live life on "autopilot" and rarely take the time to truly know themselves.

The Importance of Self-Knowledge

• Questioning one's identity and life purpose are ancient endeavors.
• Insufficient self-knowledge leads to relationship difficulties, like distrust, anxiety, and control issues.
• A lack of self-knowledge results in living without clear direction while relying on external factors.
• The results are dissatisfaction, frustration, and a lack of purpose, fueled by digital and materialist culture.
• Addictions to consumerism and technology will likely emerge.
• Understanding what one wants versus what one truly needs is crucial.
• Ignoring personal limits leads to overexertion, dissatisfaction, demotivation, discouragement, and anxiety.
• Believing one is completely self-aware is as detrimental as lacking self-knowledge.
• Identifying recurring patterns and blockages in life is an important step toward self-knowledge.
• Over-identification limits perspective and prevents new experiences.

The Trap of Identification

• The digital age fosters identification through information that seeks clicks and popularity through stereotypes.
• This pushes people to identify with stereotypes.
• Seeking belonging to these stereotypes leads to close-mindedness and prevents new experiences.
• Digital over-information leads to believing we are certain ways and limits us.
• Identification is a natural tendency, establishing a sense of self separate from others, constructing personality, and defining identity with the ego.
• Over-identification prevents further self-discovery.
• Transcend believed identity.
• Understand and manage the ego without being dominated by it.
• Overcoming the limitations of self-knowledge improves personal well-being by understanding the layers of personality.

Layers of Personality

• Identity is layered with different levels: context, experiences, system of beliefs, values, identity.
• This is best envisioned as an iceberg, where what is seen above is a fraction of the whole self.
• The iceberg analogy illustrates how identity is built through observable layers like context, attitudes, and behaviors as well as hidden layers such as belief systems, values, and identity.

Context as Influence

• Humans are social beings deeply conditioned by culture, family values, education, and attachment styles.
• While one cannot change their context, awareness allows for beneficial changes.
• The belief that context cannot be changed is another form of identification.
• Being aware of how context has shaped someone is important; apply positive changes where applicable.

Subjective Experiences

• As individuals gain autonomy, life experiences elicit emotions, interpretations, and ideas.
• Experiences shape our understanding of the world, especially those related to family and later relationships.
• Subjective experiences are often treated as absolute truths; understanding them with perspective is vital to transcend negative conditioning.
• Understanding perspective makes it possible to see past unfortunate experiences that have conditioned you.
• Experiences are vital and cause human emotion.

Systems of Beliefs

• This refers to recurring interpretations about oneself, others, and the world.
• Unlike being programmed, habits and emotional patterns lead to repeated interpretations.
• Knowing and modifying one's belief system through action helps to see the world with perspective and overcome limiting beliefs.
• Recognizing the belief system and modifying it in actions will help one see the world from a different perspective.

Personal Values

• These are qualities or virtues that characterize individuals, not define them.
• Values can change throughout life, but one must know and live according to them.
• Living harmoniously with one's values promotes peace, well-being, and harmony.
• Being aware of value systems helps to live a healthy and well-balanced life.

Personal Identity

• Any answer to "who am I?" is always incomplete, as we are more than names, genders, emotions, or ideas.
• Freeing oneself from identifications allows us to understand the question more.
• Understanding and transcending what one believes about themselves promotes acceptance and confidence when relating to the world.
• Individuals must understand their personal identity and how they perceive themselves to improve how they relate to the world.

Additional Systems Impacting Self

• Beyond the layers of personality, the relationship with oneself impacts relationships with the world.
• The 3 main elements: self-esteem, emotion management, and communication.
• Self-esteem, emotional management, and communication all affect self-knowledge.

About Self-Esteem

• Self-esteem is a way of relating to oneself effectively and subsequently to the world.
• Effective self-esteem depends on internal factors (how one interprets events), not external rewards (others' behavior and opinions).
• External rewards lead to frustration because they are unmanageable.
• Self-esteem functions when well-being primarily depends on one's actions, not external circumstances which are beyond control.
• Self-esteem isn't about being high or low, but about having a healthy relationship with oneself.

Emotional Managment

• This involves understanding, feeling, and managing emotions.
• All emotions are useful and necessary, including fear and insecurity.
• The problem lies not in the emotions themselves, but in understanding and managing them when they are too intense, frequent, or lasting.
• Failure to manage emotions affects self-perception and self-knowledge.
• Managing emotion involves knowing how to understand all emotions effectively.

Communication

• Verbal communication transmits messages to oneself and others, shaping perception of the world.
• Communication and language can affect a person's knowledge.

Living a Process of Self-Knowledge

• The process involves understanding and transcending layers and systems through actions.
• Actions will challenge beliefs about oneself and the world.
• This process requires a non-judgmental, reflective companion to provide perspective.
• Digital tools have made transpersonal self-knowledge processes more accessible.
• "Know Yourself in 21 Steps" (designed in 2012) provides a two-month self-knowledge. process, by knowing the different layers, the user will learn to transcend.
• The program is designed to take advantage of digital capabilities to make itself accessible.
• A process of self-knowledge is a journey that should be companioned, guiding another through a clean mirror in which they can be reflected instead of judging.
• Through transpersonal approaches, a person should be able to liberate an understanding and improve perspective.
• Conócete en 21 pasos is a self-knowledge program that gives you a deeper understanding of yourself through time and dedication.
• A transpersonal approach involves going beyond the persona to understand the layers of yourself.

Purpose in Life

• The relationship between self-awareness and purpose in life is that they form a loop.
• Finding one's purpose in life is often seen as the direct path to self-knowledge, but it is an auto-exigent phrase.
• People believe that they have no purpose at all and look down on themselves.
• The purpose of life is not something to be sought or found, but something to be realized with actions.
• One's life purpose has meaning if actions align with values, requiring self-knowledge.
• Living a life of purpose is not about work, status, social standing or a certain kind of life.
• Seeing life's purpose as these things also implies identification-ego.
• The purpose of life is a quality, not an object, which requires a process of self-knowledge that is also a costly and restrictive process.
• Acting with life purpose is not just a search for work to give someone a status.
• Meaning that people must act with a self-knowing of inclination to improve the lives of others, the purpose of life is more of an attribute.

O autocoñecemento é unha procura de por vida e a miúdo descoidada. Implica comprender por que interpretamos as cousas como o facemos. O autocoñecemento mellora a autoconfianza, a autoestima e o manejo emocional.