1. Find time to be with yourself, not just in seclusion but even in a crowd.
2. During this time, recall any incident or provocation for introspection.
3. Visualise your own responses to them.
4. Re-enact your reaction in each case and try to examine closely whether you know why you react the way you do.
5. Try to visualise the consequentions of your reaction, not just for the other person but for yourself too.
6. Watch the explanations, the alibis and the rationalising you come up with.
7. Check the impulse to condemn yourself, and let honesty be your bulwark.
8. It will put you in touch with the heritage of human values which you share with mankind.
9. Learn to be compassionate with yourself, so that you can accept yourself as you are at this moment with grace and humility, without rancour or self-destructive guilt.
10. This process can help you to get the first insights about the nature of your social conditioning, your temperament, your inner authentic self and so on for your well-being and inner peace.
11. The approach to introspection is not one of fault-finding or judgemental evaluation for sorting out your black and white, rather it's a process of self-discovery through empathy and understanding one's approach by adopting the stance of a bemused bystander.
2. During this time, recall any incident or provocation for introspection.
3. Visualise your own responses to them.
4. Re-enact your reaction in each case and try to examine closely whether you know why you react the way you do.
5. Try to visualise the consequentions of your reaction, not just for the other person but for yourself too.
6. Watch the explanations, the alibis and the rationalising you come up with.
7. Check the impulse to condemn yourself, and let honesty be your bulwark.
8. It will put you in touch with the heritage of human values which you share with mankind.
9. Learn to be compassionate with yourself, so that you can accept yourself as you are at this moment with grace and humility, without rancour or self-destructive guilt.
10. This process can help you to get the first insights about the nature of your social conditioning, your temperament, your inner authentic self and so on for your well-being and inner peace.
11. The approach to introspection is not one of fault-finding or judgemental evaluation for sorting out your black and white, rather it's a process of self-discovery through empathy and understanding one's approach by adopting the stance of a bemused bystander.