Inasmuch as we find that we enjoy growing up and biologically reaching milestones, our development as highly functional members of society and human beings in general, largely hinges on our ability to adopt, adapt and continually adjust our behaviours, thoughts and feelings in manners that show maturity and an awareness. Ideally, an individual’s process of psychologically growing should encapsulate that person’s ability to study themselves at depth, learn their own strengths, their weaknesses and to also establish exactly at what level of emotional intelligence they function at.
As a somewhat underrated psychological feature, the relevance of self-introspection as a means of achieving self-awareness has never been more relevant, more especially because our social nature demands that we are in constant interaction with each other for a gallery of reasons.
Our whole lives are centred around establishing, maintaining and nurturing different forms of relationships everyday and on account of this, it is almost a primary requirement that we know how to carry ourselves through those interactions (everyday) without ruining the quality of whatever relationship you seek to establish. This applies in both random interactions as well as in intentional interactions with people we are familiar with, with both situations needing different levels of emotional regulation to attend to.
Therefore, the value in self-introspection is mainly put on display in the way we carry, handle ourselves and solve different engagements that ‘stir up’ a variety of emotions in our everyday lives. For the sake of our mental health and it is well-being, it would be too much of a stretch for us to be extra psycho-emotionally stimulated for every single thing we experience with every passing minute. This remains the main cause of stress, mental exhaustion and a general ‘emotional overstimulation’ that weighs too heavily on us to deal with on a daily basis.
For this reason, as advocates in the field of mental health, we advise a selective approach to what we react to. Knowing more about yourself and your emotional triggers places you in a very advanced position to make a conscious choice as to what deserves your attention as well as what may not be worth it.
Being able to do this, not only improves the quality of our general relationships but also serves as a key buffer in our efforts to maintain a clean bill of mental health, as it should be.
We have the sole responsibility to ensure that we do not over-exert ourselves psycho-emotionally without running our mental health resources dry.
For this reason, we need to stay constantly learning about ourselves, our mistakes, emotional triggers as well as the pleasant, in order for us to be able to make consciously valid emotional decisions.
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