8 Qualities to Unlock Your True Self

1. Curiosity

When you’re truly curious, you have an absence of an agenda to change another person’s behavior. Instead, you genuinely want to understand it. You have an openness to the world and you’re curious about other people and why they do what they do instead of being upset with them.

2. Compassion

Compassion requires us to look beyond the reactive, angry parts of one another and recognize what's underneath. In many cases, the reactive parts are responding to a true pain or fear for that person. Compassion is also exhibiting care for the suffering of others and having a genuine desire to help.

3. Confidence

This involves relating to parts and people in ways that are effective and healing. It’s also trusting that despite making mistakes, you’re inherently worthy and good. Inside your system, the self trusts in its own capabilities and competence even when other parts may have their doubts.

4. Calmness

When you experience peace inside, it’s like laying in fresh sheets from the dryer, the perfect bite of a waffle cone, or the sound of the trees when you’re in the middle of a forest. When you’re locked into this C, you can feel a sense of internal peace. Additionally, calmness is about being grounded and centered in the face of stressful parts or situations.

5. Creativity

This allowed me to be free to realize my full creative potential and embrace the novelty of the situation.

6. Courage

When you embrace this quality of self-leadership, you approach scary situations or parts that hold onto fear and respond to them more intentionally. You also have the ability to hold a balance when addressing them and the world.

7. Clarity

Clarity is the next quality. We want to maintain an unobstructed view, a clear view of parts and situations. In doing so, we aren’t projecting any of our fears or baggage onto this reality. We are seeing everything as it truly is.

8. Connectedness

This is about recognizing that we are all connected, and that separateness is an illusion. In embracing connectedness, we connect to all parts of ourselves and to other people. We also have the desire to reconnect in healthy ways if disconnection has occurred.

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Reflection:

Do you know your true self?

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