sometimes it helps, sometimes it hurts. its like drinking. it intensifies the mood you're in. introspect while you're sad, you'll get depressed. do it while you're happy, its a refreshing boost of clarity.
I admittedly have very good introspectric abilities, and think about my own psychology, but ti has never helped me. No matter what I find out about myself, I am unable to change it for the better, and that only makes me more afraid of my own future when i see all these mental, what shall I call them, "taints."
I guess it does/can help, but, you know.. thinking about yourself too much and over-analysing your life can create pretty bad anxiety, too..
Ignorance is hell. Coma is bliss. Ignorance is not thinking about what you don't know, with no intentions to learn what you don't know. Your life becomes shallow, and overall it is a hell with a candy coating. In a coma, you are in your dreams, omniscient and peaceful.
I think way too much. And sometimes you think certain things about yourself...like what kinda person you are and what you're like etc. Then you're thrown into the real world and by your actions you proove yourself wrong. And you see that everything you thought about yourself isnt true and that you really dont know yourself.
Have you ever though yourself into a panic attack? I was making toast in the kitchen by myself one night.. at like 4 AM and i was thinking about the universe and stuff.. and i kind of had a major existential crisis... i was mainly thinking about how the universe must be eternally big.. and it can never not be here.. because something must always be.. how can something not be? there is no such thing as nothingness.. so on and so fourth. I was so scared it was weird.. i almost had to wake my mum up to have someone to talk too.
Yes and no. Sometimes introspection is nothing more than being self absorbed. Other times its a way of understanding why I react to some things the way I do. I find this less handy in rewriting my own psychology but useful in recognizing and avoiding people and situations that will trigger negative reactions from me. Apart from temporary behavior modification, I'm not likely to be able to rewire myself and make fundamental changes to how I behave when being stressed. In a sense ignorance can be bliss... if I cannot comprehend something that would otherwise fuck up my mood then I'm not susceptible to its potential to piss me off. Because I didn't properly discipline myself to control angry outbursts when I was younger I have a unique personal challenge now. Because so much that I must deal with day to day defies logic, complicates my routine in a way that could very easily be avoided, and is completely outside my power to influence it. Without a conscious effort on my part to block this information, I can easily see my stress levels approach dangerous levels on a daily basis.
sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't settle things, but either which way does make me more aware of what goes on. for the most part, i just think on my successes and failures - especially my successes. that is something new to my thought process in which i do some introspection. you can learn a lot from the times you've failed, but you can learn a lot from when you succeed. but i used to focus much more on why i failed and how to turn it around and sometimes i got caught up in that train of thought, instead of focusing on the positives - i dwelled on negatives and overtime, it becomes burdensome.
Yeh it is. I can end up stuck in a rut.. feeling really shitty. Like whoever said.. ignorance probably is bliss.
Introspection is a fine thing. As long as you do not bring judgements and opinions into the matter. Once you have feelings based in emotion, it can be very disturbing. Objective detachment when you look within will save you much frustration. It can give insights and help you make changes.
It is bliss indeed. If you want to close your eyes and live in bliss. I'd rather feel shitty than be ignorant.
