Scouting oneself
Having known all our hidings, we are now ready to search for ourselves. Here, I will begin with Carl Jung. "Whoever looks outside dreams; whoever looks inside awakes." It is good to dream, but to make the dream materialize, we need to awaken ourselves to our true qualities that can make our dreams come true. This is the place where we need to go back and see all my hiding places. Many times, these hidings are so ingrained in our behavior that we have started considering them as one of our own. Let us see a few examples: " Yes, I’m a control freak—I admit it. I’m only a workaholic because I love my job so much. Are you going to criticize me for that? Oh, I know I’m a perfectionist. That’s just me." If we keep doing this, we are actually suppressing our true potential by denying it. I have done this quite a few times. I remember my olden days when I was a control freak. I wanted everything under my control. If it were not happening, I would shout and go mad. If I had