why sometimes i can't understand myself?

Question

sometimes moody.....

Answer 1

This, I believe, is very true with all of us.

We are governed by instinct, emotion and reason..... each of these originates different inclinations for us and sometimes reason goes right opposite of instinct or emotion...... there is no way anyone can tell which inclination would prevail at which occasion..... it may be due to mood or other circumstances etc. and more often than not, we can't even tell on hindsight..... that is why we feel we can't even understand ourselves at times... no wonder then that we human beings are so enigmatic and unpredictable!!

Answer 2

Give yourself 15 minutes alone, in a quiet place with no distractions.

Once there, concentrate on identifying 2 things that are really important to you.

Once identified, try to think of 2 ways that you can make something happen for those 2 things, so that you have 4 clear ideas.

Write them down.

If you failed at the above exercise, the reason why you can't understand yourself is because you are easily distracted and you are unable to value yourself enough to make time for yourself.

Answer 3

On any single day, we are interfacing with many many people, relatives , friends, strangers ...... For various reasons we are unable to be ourselves most of the times. Our talks are shallow. Our opinions are irrelevant. So , most times we put on masks as we deal with the world.

So much so , over a period of time , we donot understand who we really are . When we look at ourselves in the mirror we are not sure we are seeing the real 'us' or the masked 'us'. That is why we are not bable to understand ourselves sometimes.

That is why it is necessary to get close friends to whom we can bare our true selves.The more we have such the more we will understand us.

Answer 4

I Want To Understand Myself

Answer 5

You may sometimes not be able to understand yourself, and justifiably that is not a unique or privileged deficiency of yours.

Old- and new-time philosophers and prophets looking for faithful disciples recommend that you should do some effort to learn to know, and thus to understand and thus to monitor, yourself, and they insist that you obey their more or less idiosyncratic paradigms that unfortunately never ever proved to be the definitive rightest ones.

As long as you live, your soul is ever ever growingly wanting to be more glowingly inundated of experiential heuristic happiness, but there is some sort of transcendental meaning behind the ways of all this that you are not able to grasp nor to fetch. Not yet. Maybe never in our present level of evolution. Maybe later, after some more or less unconscious metamorphosis leading up into some never previously imagined apotheosis of more glowing clarity.

Answer 6

You'd better go to see a doctor and take some medicine. Maybe you get a mental disease.

Answer 7

i believe that sometimes you might think too much about a lot of various concerns (even minor ones), or that you don't take enough time to sit, isolate yourself a bit and of and for yoruself.. ( happens to em all the time...)

Answer 8

Well Sonny, when you meet girls, dont think they will be your girlfriend right off the bat. Just ask them out for a drink and talk about stuff and get to know her and it will go from there. Have confidence in yourself, just say to yourself "im going to talk to them and if they dont like me then too bad" and move on. Ask your friends for help as well.

Answer 9

You might check out "Mindset" by Carol Dweck, a Stanford psychology "genius" who has had great success helping leading athletes, entertainers, and educators develop more in-sight. Last year she finally published her book, which has lots of good insights, because it is hard to look at yourself, unless someone holds up a mirror.

Other good books include Dr. Elizabeth Mayer's "Extraordinary Knowing;" "Climb the Highest Mountain" (about understanding yourself in several ways--spiritual, cultural, philosophical, etc.) by Mark Prophet; "Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon" by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov (a collection of talks he gave in France); "Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton, who quietly counseled 1000s including some rich and famous, with understanding how dreams teach us about ourselves. (Our sleeping awareness is supposed to be our waking subconscious.)

Also, "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, is a good example of a young man who came to realilze he might be the next lifetime of the American seer who was Edgar Cayce. He could understand himself with a lot of effort. And, another great book, by Harvard Ph.D. and mother Martha Beck, "Expecting Adam," is great with self-awareness insight. C. S. Lewis' "The Great DIvorce" is a novella (140 pages) about understanding self. Both are great.

"Autobiography of a Yogi," Paramahansa Yogananda, is a classic account of understanding self--called "Self-realization"--and also very worthwhile. Http://www.yogananda-srf.org is a connected website.
"And There Was Light," Jacques Lusseyran, about his days in WWII France as a resistance leader, and "Tortured for Christ," Reverend Richard Wurmbrand, are also excellent re people knowing themselves under trying circumstances.

"Stay Alive, My Son," Pin Yathay, is likewise great, as is "Eyes of the Tailless Animals," Soon Ok Lee.

By reading profiles of such insight-seekers, we are more able to understand both how to introspect, know our true selves, and what problems others have encountered. "The Story of My Experiments with Truth," Mahatma Gandhi, is another such book.

"The Field," Lynne McTaggart, about soulfield and biophysics and biophotons, is great, as is Dr. William Tiller's work on psi in "Psychoenergetic Science" at http://www.tiller.org

These are good leads and knowing self is a process which can be a lifetime's grand lessons. Championing one's inner child, which is one's soul, is also a good practice. Inner sense is innocence.

Also, "The Fourth Turning," Strauss and Howe, is a good method for placing oneself in a generational cycle which they've discerned in American history.

Http://www.coasttocoastam.com (with "Affiliates" button for local broadcast stations) often has interviews with guests about knowing self. The Saturday evening host especially is fairly humorous.

regards,

j.

Answer 10

that is why i consider "Knowing youreslf" is the most difficult science a person may acquires.