Personality Development—How to Reach Where You Want to Reach

We come across many people in life, and they are all different in how they behave, how they react and reason. These people are all made different by the different personalities they have. Therefore, personality is the combination of mannerisms and attributes that makes one person distinct and unique from the other. Personality is formed as a result of many factors. 

 

First, there are personality traits that one inherits from parents and relatives. No wonder you find some of your traits and your likes and dislikes similar to those of your parents or relatives. There are some personality traits that we pick up along the way as we grow and live our lives. As we grow and live, we pick up habits, values and beliefs that are dependent on where we grow and who we grow, live or interact with. However, the traits we pick up in childhood stick the most more than the ones we get as we grow up. 

 

It is possible to design and develop your own personality. It is not a sealed fate set for us to act out, but you can control it and determine how it is going to work out. In other words, you can redesign even the hereditary traits to be what you would like them to be instead of letting them be what they were set to be. 

 

If you want to have successful personality development, you need to be honest with yourself on your personality type. There are four main personalities or temperaments you can use to classify yourself. These include sanguine, melancholy, choleric and phlegmatic. These four temperaments are very different, and there is no one person who has 100% of one trait. When someone is called a sanguine, it means that this temperament is the most outstanding. There are many personality tests you can take on the internet for you to exactly know where you lie. Without being honest with yourself about your personality, you will find this to be an uphill task. 

 

After being honest with yourself, look at the strengths and weaknesses of your personality type. Do your best to build on the strengths. For instance, if you are talkative and confident, use this to your advantage and let this trait boost your career and ambitions. If you are very patient, use this to your advantage and to the advantage those that surround you. Also, identify your weaknesses in a very honest and open way. Work on your weaknesses by making deliberate efforts. For instance, forgetfulness can be improved by ensuring that you have phone reminders and lists on your notice board.

Self-Discovery Starts by Loving Yourself

Self-discovery is greatly dependent on whether you love yourself. Love for oneself is a great asset that one can have in life. First and foremost, you should ask yourself who you are? To a very large extent, most of us are deeply engrossed on the day-to-day hustles and bustles of life. This entails; making ends meet, running our various businesses, starting new paths for our careers. We are deeply engrossed in this till we forget who really are. We never stop to discover self. 

 

Knowing yourself first entails come to the realization that first and foremost we are all unique beings and that to a very large extent, we are endowed with special gifts. We all have one or two things that we can do better than others. It is after discovering this that everything else in life takes shape. To a large extent this is the key that can unlock the door to everything that you are undertaking. A great number of us tend to believe that real happiness rests material things which are not the case. Happiness comes from discovering yourself.

 

To a large extent we only believe on those things that we can set our eyes on and can feel with our hands. We tend not to trust our inner self. The inner wisdom that we are all endowed with. When we were young, we are always told to always be perfect and to some extent that we are not that good enough. When you realize you are not yourself you stop carrying somebody’s luggage. It is important that we always act ourselves, we should not look down upon ourselves but rather believe that we are okay just the way we are. Always put yourself first, do not look down upon yourself. 

 

To a large extent if you do not love yourself, then there’s no way you can love somebody else. Loving yourself has nothing to do with ego; it does not mean looking down upon others or being too proud and zealous. There’s no way you can love others if at all you do not love yourself, then there’s no way you can love any other party and here you would be cheating both yourself and the people whom you claim to love. Thus, loving yourself opens up your life and it is through this that you can discover yourself.

 

Questions You Can Ask Yourself for Self-Discovery

Even though we are all endowed differently in terms of gifts and talents not all of us is well aware of what our endowments are. It is also true that most of us know what our strengths are but they do not know how to maximize on them. We do not know how to use them both for our own benefit and for the benefits of others. One of the main reasons why people do not maximize on their God given talents is the failure to discover them. Many young people have the problem of identifying who they are really are and what they are in this planet. They are not able to make solid decisions towards fruitful career choices. Ones that augur well with their personality.

 

It is sad to note that it is not only the young people that are affected with choices regarding their lives but even the older people have the problem of discovering their real self. Many adults make choices in life without taking their passions in to consideration. The problem is that they deny this undisputable fact and tend to keep to their comfort zone. They are afraid of changes n their life and prefer satisfying external desires. 

 

There a number of questions that you can ask yourself for self-discovery. These include; asking yourself the activity did you use to love doing when you were a child? You can also ask yourself that if you so happen to write a book what subject would you talk or rather what would you write about? Ask yourself what area or aspect in life that you feel you can comfortably help people in? Also ask yourself what your close associates and friends or even what you relatives say about you. Ask yourself of the dreams you are always day dreaming about. Search your memory and try remembering a certain day that you felt you utter mostly felt that happiness from deep within you.

 

All these questions will lead to the discovery of the real you. You will at the end of the day have a personal satisfaction of the direction or path that your life ought to take. You will be motivated and inspired. You will find yourself facing each and every day in a different way. With energy and vigor. You will be more confident about yourself and you can handle anything that comes your way with ease. 

 

Understand Your Personality, Develop It and Be a Successful Consultant

If you are a professional consultant in whichever field, you basically are someone that others look up to in that specific area for guidance and direction. Therefore, you cannot afford to be a blind man leading another. You need to know your personality so that you will make the best out of it and so that your career will go to greater heights.

 

The first thing you should do is to analyze your personality type or temperament. Are you an artisan, guardian, rational or an idealist? We shall name these temperaments A, B, C and D respectively for ease of identification.

 

The type A person is a very flexible person, and he is not rigid to one routine or schedule. He can easily move with the wave. However, this person does not work on information whose foundation is not concrete, and he prefers to use his senses more than he uses hearsay. The type B person also loves working with the same kind of information as the type A person. This person will hardly pay for things simply because he heard that they are on their way coming. He will need to see them first and even touch them and have close scrutiny ion them before any commitment is made. However, this person is not as flexible; he works with a written plan.

 

Then, there is the type C person. This person is spontaneous in his thinking. He is also very positive minded about all things and he believes that something can be made out of even the most useless things. Instead of working with actual, solid information, the type C person works like an artist – with abstracts. The type D person is one who is also spontaneous in thinking, but also trusts in his instincts when feeling. This is also a person who loves working with abstracts as opposed to the types A and B persons, who love solid information. 

 

Therefore, you need to know what you can do best using your personality type. The type A person can work best as a coach in arts (music and drama) and as a gymnasium personal coach. Type B person can do well as a business consultant (especially in recruiting workers) and as the consultant in charge of teamwork and answerability at work. The type C person is a good consultant for management teams, research in medicine in business. The type D is good in the same areas as C but can also make a motivational and inspirational speaker.

 

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Self with Yoga

Yoga is a good way of meditating and simply having ample time with yourself. As a matter of fact, through yoga, one can actually speak to his or her inner self. To some, this might sound to be like a time waster. For those who have tried it, the story is not the same. I am sure that they consider it to be very helpful to their lives. It helps them concentrate and understand that which they could not understand before. In addition to this, yoga also has some benefits on the physical body.

 

Basically, yoga links the mind and the body. This makes it become one whole that can coordinate properly. As a result, one tends to connect to their inner self enabling them to listen to their inner self. This act is what defines the integrity that the individual will possess. This is because the act of listening to your inner self will help you awaken, you’re your integral self. With such prowess, various external feelings will not be a major hindrance in your search for inner peace. These are feelings such as pain, ecstasy or even bliss; none of them will come between you and your inner self since concentration will be at its peak. 

 

By speaking to oneself, one tends to fully be in control of your body. One finds himself having sunk deep into his inner self and exploring what makes him. This basically means that one wanders round the wonderland found inside him or her. As a result, one tends to access even the soul. However, this only happens to those who practice this for quite some time and becomes well conversant with the connection between inner self and the body. Not every Tom, Dick and Harry can do this; it takes years of practice to finally reach this stage. 

 

By doing this, one can be a judge of himself. This means that one normally feels his inner self telling him that whatever you are doing is not correct, stop it! Basically, people base their thoughts of what is good on the normal truth that is in the society. This is not the case with yoga practitioners. According to yogis, one’s wisdom should lie in power of one to listen to him. This implies to the inner sense that tends to be superior than the other laws of the earth. 

 

Spiritual Enlightenment According To Zohar

Spirituality has brought about a lot of fuss in the world today as many try to come up with the real definition of spirituality. Many have tried it but none has ever come to a conclusion. However, one thing that they all agreed on is that there is spiritual enlightenment and it varies in different individuals. This depends on the religious devotion shown by one. As a result, many decided to research deeper on the qualities of a spiritually enlightened individual. This dates way back in 1995 when Goleman wrote a book discussing on this topic. At the time, he referred to it as spiritual quotient in relation to IQ; intelligence quotient. In the book, Goleman stated that the spirituality quotient is based on the ability of the left side of the brain. 

 

Later on came Dana Zohar who in collaboration with Ian Marshall came up with another whole new dimension of spiritual intelligence. They said that it was more than the left side of the brain but far much bigger. In the words of Zohar, “Spiritual intelligence is the ultimate intelligence in human beings”. As a matter of fact, he came up with a series of definitions related to spiritual intelligence.

 

To start with, Zohar said that spiritual intelligence is the state of having complete self-awareness. This is simply the act of being completely aware of your entire self; knowing each and every aspect of the inner and outer you in details. In addition to this, you also have to know that there is a connection between you and the entire universe. Secondly, a spiritually enlightened individual is said to be led by visions and values. In sort, this is what many may refer to as idealism. In the end of it all, this tends to bring about a spirit full of humanity. This is why it is said that spirituality is defined by humanity.

 

Thirdly, it was also said that spiritual intelligence is highly characterized by having a holistic perspective of things. This basically means that one tends to see the connections between various things and just how these connections link them. However, this requires one to be open minded and interested in everything happening around them. On the other hand, Zohar also said that spiritual intelligence gifts one the power to use adversity for the betterment of him or herself. Instead of lamenting about the problems, a spiritually enlightened individual faces them and celebrates the diversities since he or she has the ability to turn them around.  

 

The Different Stages of Spirituality

Spirituality enlightenment has to consist of the body the mind and the spirit. The basic goal for attaining spirituality is enlightenment and once attained, one senses the unity of the spirit, that inner peace and being able to abandon the earthly mental and physical engagements. For realistic reasons, achieving spiritual enlightenment has some few steps or rather stages. There are three of them and in each one of them, one evolves greatly. 

 

The very initial stage is animality where people have a bad tendency of putting themselves down or lowering themselves. Here one encounters and lives as any person would, in reality. One might occasionally participate in the normal activities like talking, socializing, gossiping, working, planning for their future and so on. One experiences just about everything that everyone else does be it heartbreaks, victory, losing a loved one but the unique thing here is the fact that one begins taking signals to uplift their soul’s enlightenment in the direction of attaining a more significant life. It is at this very point where you are getting everything as presented but at the same time you are trying your best to let go of the worldly things in your life.

 

In the next stage you ascend into humanity where you begin to negotiate with the nature of the human individuals. It is at this stage where a person relates with every person and objects in their surroundings and this makes them feel like disengaging with their own selves. However, the result is already getting active and shows that unity between the individuality and the supreme soul is actually taking place. This can be an incredible experience because enlightening of the soul guarantees that with the next stage things will be much better. 

 

In the final stage we have divinity whereby the religious experts in our present times assemble and combine using the very source in which individuals come from. Here we sought of have an isolation process because you no longer feel connected with your environment or the things you had a connection with earlier on. I call it sought of because it is not really a sense of isolation but rather you come into terms with reality that you are all that, you are everything. 

 

This is a clear explanation that spirituality enlightenment is taking over to provide you with the feeling of having a union with God. Divinity simply enables you to experience everything after humanity meaning you no longer own your mind or your body or your intellectual faculty. This is where your divine experience begins, where you are linked to God, the greatest level one can undergo.

 

The Power of Yoga

There are several ways of meditate that people use these days. One of the most ancient and powerful one is yoga. Basically, this is a variety of practices that were practiced in the Indian culture. They were termed as spiritual practices. It is believed that through yoga, one can understand past his or her ability. Using the meditation and asceticism that is associated with yoga, people tend to attain a level of insight that enables them to see past their eyes and understand various phenomena that many cannot with their basic human instincts. 

 

Yoga has existed for over 5000 years and is still going strong. The first place where yoga was used was in Mahabharata by the famous Lord Krishna. He was imparting the skill on one of his students known as Arjuna so that he may see life on another perspective and be able to live a quality life. Since then, yoga has set the pace for meditation practices. 

 

Yoga works in such a way that it unites both the body and the mind making them one strong whole. This way, one can use the mind to performing a lot healing practices on the body; at least this is what modern yoga is all about. For the ancient Indians, yoga was a way of understanding god by accessing the spiritual phase of life. 

 

The modern man has really grown into using yoga for a lot of purposes. These purposes can be termed as the power of yoga since it empowers man to do these things. To start with, it reduces stress and turns on a relaxing mode. It simply takes you off to a different world and helps you forget all the problems that are on the other side. In short, it can increase the ability of one to concentrate and control self. Secondly, it also said that yoga highly influences the physical body. It adds on some kind of physical strength as well as stamina. Thirdly, it helps one control his or her desires. This can be termed as self-control. On the physical body, yoga also increases the immunity power of the entire body system.

 

Yoga can also help one be highly tolerant to various kinds of pain affecting the body. This is basically due to the high concentration that enables one ignore the entire feeling. Generally, yoga has the power to enhance your mental ability on all fronts. That is just how powerful yoga is. 

 

Spirituality and Meditation

Spirituality entails a lot of practices; some are physical some are spiritual. Physically, there are activities such as singing of religious hymns or even sitting on the wheel of prayer. As a matter of fact, some go to an extent of doing certain physiological body routines before performing any spiritual activity. However, one of the main activities that link both spiritual and physiological activities is meditation. This is the process through which many spiritual individuals tend to connect with their inner spiritual realm and even connect with God. All in all, not everyone understands the importance of meditation in spirituality. This can only be explained by understanding the power of meditation.

 

Meditation is a vital tool for anyone who wishes to grow spiritually. For those who ignore meditation, they tend to suffer from unease. Notice the difference; dis-ease and disease. The latter is a disorder in the body while the other is a disorder in the spiritual self that results in some sort of discomfort. This is mainly brought about by that disconnection with God. In relation to this, meditation tends to connect our souls with God hence bringing about growth of the spiritual self. This is the main power of meditation in terms of spiritual. 

 

Basically, meditation is said to have several benefits to the mind, body and soul. This is because the three are linked together to form the real you. As for the soul, it gets its nourishment from our connection with God which can only be achieved by regularly meditating. Therefore, not meditating is denying the soul its food. This is hazardous; just like denying the physical body food. With this trend, we might end up starving to death and the same will happen to the soul. And a body without a soul is ‘dead’. Therefore, if you feel some unease, the n that is a sign that your soul is starving. Take action before tings get worse. 

 

On the other hand, there are various levels of meditation each meant to serve a particular purpose. Many have the will to meditate but end up frustrated in the end due to lack of results. Why do you think this happens? It is simply because they perform the wrong meditation practices for their level hence bearing no results. Fr more information on meditation levels, consult a meditating expert who will give you directions on the various meditation levels and their uses. Therefore, you will be in a position to choose.