How to Discover Yourself

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How to Find Yourself
Iskcon, the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness, also known as the Hare Krishna
movement is a spiritual society which has been
founded by Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada. He founded this in New York in July,
1966.
Dwarka
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Know How to Find Yourself
Wake your consciousness write down your life's
timeline and distinguish your thoughts from
others'. Start with a clean slate and organize
your world. Give yourself some alone time, seek
out a passion, and find a mentor. Change your
perspective and let go of negative thoughts.
Question yourself, then act on your newfound
knowledge
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Waking Your Conscious
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Waking Your Conscious
Create your own life timeline. Write down all of
your major goals that you feel you have achieved
and want to achieve. In turn, write down the
events in your life that have already happened
and that have shaped or affected you. When life
brings problems or misfortunes it shapes our
belief system and makes us think differently, but
it also makes us us. These things you list are
organically you, not a simple reflection of
society.
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Distinguish Your Thoughts From The Thoughts Of
Others
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Distinguish Your Thoughts From The Thoughts Of
Others
Distinguish your thoughts from the thoughts of
others. For most people (it's more common than
you may think) life is pretty easy to go through
while on autopilot we practically get handed a
road map for how reality "works." Go to school,
get a job, get married, think this, that, and the
other, and boom hope you had a good time. And
that's all well and good it gets the job done
certainly but it doesn't allow room for you. So
sit down with yourself. At the end of the
timeline, come up with a few beliefs of yours
that aren't based on logic, but are based on what
you've been told. We all have them. Now, what do
you actually think?
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Start Relying On Yourself
Confidence and reliance are at the heart of
finding yourself. If you don't have a solid sense
of self-worth, you'll listen to what others have
to say all the time and to be swayed by their
insistence on what is appropriate. Learn to
believe in yourself and trust your own feelings.
Then, you'll come up with a structure to base
your new sense of self on. Remember, be patient
with yourself and confident in your abilities.
Everything will come with time.
If you have been victimized in the past, confront
these issues. They're not going to go away on
their own. They might be coloring your approach
to daily life, causing you to live up to other
people's expectations instead of your
own. Start trusting your own judgment and
decision-making processes, mistakes and all. We
all make mistakes, but through mistakes we find
ourselves growing, learning, and reaching our
real selves.
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Prepare To Begin Again With A Clean Slate
Develop your own moral conduct and practice
sticking to it. Start by overcoming bad habits.
Stop smoking, over-eating, and abusive drinking.
These are examples of lapses or habits that will
prevent you from functioning at your peak. They
also let you "off the hook" by sidestepping the
analysis of why you use these crutches instead of
finding better ways to brighten your life.
This step may take some major rehabilitation for
some individuals but putting it into the too-hard
basket won't make it go away. Remember, you can't
drive your life forward if you are always gazing
through your rear-view mirror!
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Organize Your World
You may find that having all your other affairs
in order will help expedite the process to
grabbing a firm hold on your identity. So clean
your room. Do your homework. Resolve that fight
with that friend. Getting everything else out of
the way will clear up the path to "me" time.
We all have excuses for why we're not growing in
the direction we want to be growing it could be
money, school, a job, a relationship, you name
it, someone's used it. If you're a busy bee, take
strides to clear your schedule so you can sit
down and tackle this thing head on. If it's
always priority 2, it'll never get done
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Conquering Your World
Immerse yourself in solitude. Give yourself some
time and space to get away from the expectations,
the conversations, the noise, the media, and the
pressure. Take some time each day to go for a
long walk and think. Plant yourself on a park
bench and look. Take a long, thoughtful road
trip. Whatever you do, move away from anything
that distracts you from contemplating your life
and where you want it to go. In solitude, you
should feel independent and self-sufficient, not
lonely, needy or afraid.
Every person needs time alone, whether
they're introverted or extroverted, single or in
a relationship, young or old. Solitude is time
for rejuvenation and self-talk, for utter peace
and for realizing that purposeful "loneliness" is
not a bad place to be but rather, a liberating
part of your overall existence.
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Abandon The Negative
Although it sounds abstract, it's not difficult.
Make a conscious effort to minimize judging
others, objects, and yourself. This is for two
reasons 1) Positivity is nourishing and can
usher in a sense of happiness which being "lost"
masks, and 2) Opening your mind to new
experiences and new people (that you previously
wrote off) will show you a whole new world that
may be better than the one you knew before one
where you can find your corner of the sky, your
castle on a cloud, your niche in this crazy world.
Try to do something every day that you would've
brushed off as "weird," "illogical," or just
plain "uncomfortable". Getting out of your zone
will not only teach you something, but it will
force you to get to know you  what you're
capable of, what you like, what you definitely
don't like, and what you were previously missing.
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Act upon and use your newly discovered knowledge
Pick up those watercolors. Write a short
story. Plan a trip to Mombasa. Have dinner with a
family member. Start cracking jokes. Open up.
Tell the truth. Whatever it is that you've
decided you want to be or do, start being and
doing it now.
Sometimes, the real you is too afraid to face the
practicalities because it'd mean facing up to
what you've limited yourself by. Start planning
what you really want to do and investigating what
needs to be done to get you to that point instead
of flinging excuses at them, stopping the goals
and dreams dead in their tracks.
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Be Ready For Dead Ends
Finding yourself is a journey, not a destination.
A lot of it is trial and error. That's the price
you pay in return for the satisfaction you
receive More often than not, you hit a bump in
the road, and sometimes you fall flat on your
face. Be prepared to understand and accept that
this is a part of the process, and commit to
getting right back up and starting over.
Serve others. Mahatma Gandhi once said that "the
best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in
the service of others." Being introspective withou
t reaching out to others can cause you to
navel-gaze and shut yourself off from others.
Service to other people and to the community is
the ultimate way to find purpose and a sense of
your place in the world.
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