That is the real question for us to come up on today, what the purpose of going into self or diving into who you are as an individual or what makes you tick. And moreover, the question that remains from the previous module, is why society tries to stop you from doing so.

Understanding who you are, why you react the way you do, and why you have certain responses to certain things where others may not, is absolutely crucial to gaining control over how we react to things. If we can understand the framework on why and what creates an emotional reaction within us when somebody else can view the exact same event and have zero or a different emotional response to it, that gives us the opportunity to gain control over why and how we react. If we have control and power over how we react, we can change the course in our direction and the path within our life. 

Let’s put that into perspective. How many times can you recall within your own life that you tell somebody else “that’s just who I am” or “that’s just how I reacted in the situation”? The expectation in that moment is that they would accept that this truth with no other information, evidence, or explanation on top of it. In truth, you probably didn’t have an explanation past that dealing with some of the emotional reactions on a reactionary basis rather than a proactive basis. Sometimes it leads us to not knowing why we do things or knowing why we reacted the way we did. The idea of a self-journey, the progress and the work that goes into knowing self, is gaining that control back into our hands before the reaction happens. Then we’re not cleaning up after something has happened, we’re deciding before it happens how we would like to react to it. This puts us in a much stronger position to be able to stand on our actions and our emotions, our thoughts and our statements without having the same level of regret or guilt to face.