Insight #4: Personification of the Psyche

Hello again and welcome to Insight #4.

-The psyche is conformed of various characteristics, traits and patterns

-These patterns can be lumped into characters, for example a character for greed, ambition and a pattern of gambling

-The human brain is designed for socialization, and understanding of others, so today I want to give you a technique with the above basis, that is talking to your characters.

-I know this might seem a bit crazy, talking with yourself as if you weren’t talking with yourself but with another entity, however I believe it is an extremely useful and powerful way of getting deeper insight into those qualities about ourselves

-Taking the above example, we can talk with this greedy character and ask him questions, and you might be surprised at the answers you get back, even if it is technically still “you” who is answering them

-This method is not however foolproof, we do need to take those answers and verify and study them, we can still be deceiving ourselves, however I believe most times the answers do come from a place of truth within us

-With time we can even create a sort of bond, not just a simple interrogation with our characters, we can have full blown conversations about ourselves, and if you write down the conversation a lot of the time it seems as if it where between two different people, this shows how massive our minds can be, containing multiple personalities and thought patterns.

-As a leaving task I recommend once you have identified a few of these characters within you, try to see when they pop up in your behaviour, for example when going out to a party, or when working alone, or any other time you feel yourself change into a sort of character, perhaps you could get to know that character better and learn how to use them more consciously.

Until next one, have a great day!