self-reflection
Looking within oneself
Self-reflection is the act of examining your own thoughts, feelings, and actions.
It typically involves stepping back from immediate experience to consider motivations, patterns, or mistakes: After the argument, she needed time for self-reflection.
The practice is valued in therapy, philosophy, and personal growth as a path to self-understanding.
Focused attention practice
- presenceState of being somewhere
- stillnessComplete lack of motion
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- breathingPulmonary gas exchange
centering · grounding · calmness · equanimity · acceptance · nonjudgmental · observation · attentiveness
Probing one's innermost feelings
- metacognitionAwareness of own reasoning
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- solitudeState of being alone
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
Deep perceptive understanding
- realizationGrasping what's true
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- understandingMental comprehension of something
Thorough change in form
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- progressMovement toward improvement
- actualizationMaking something fully real
breakthrough · empowerment · flourishing · wisdom · resilience · healing · change · learning
meditation
Focused attention practice
- presenceState of being somewhere
- stillnessComplete lack of motion
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
breathing · centering · grounding · calmness · equanimity · acceptance · nonjudgmental · observation · attentiveness · zazen
soul-searching
Probing one's innermost feelings
- metacognitionAwareness of own reasoning
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- solitudeState of being alone
rumination · pondering · musing · cogitation · deliberation
insight
Deep perceptive understanding
- realizationGrasping what's true
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
transformation
Thorough change in form
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- progressMovement toward improvement
actualization · breakthrough · empowerment · flourishing · wisdom · resilience · healing · change · learning · adaptation
accountability
Obligation for one's actions
standards · values · priorities · goals · strengths · weaknesses · patterns · habits · behaviors · motives
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- biographybirth, death date, autobiography, life story, biography
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering
- mental processesthinking, think, reasoning, cognition, pondering
- mental wellnessmental health support, mental wellness, emotional wellness, coping skills, therapy
self-reflectionextroversion
Outward-focused temperament
people-watching · environmental awareness · social engagement · observation · extraversion
self-reflectionmindlessness
Lack of awareness
thoughtlessness · unreflectiveness · impulsivity · automaticity · autopilot
self-reflectionobliviousness
Lack of awareness
self-deception · self-delusion · unconsciousness · unawareness · denial
self, reflect, selfish, reflection, reflex, selfless, reflective, reflector, reflections