Benefits of Reflection & How to Do It

How much time do you spend in reflection?

With our busy lives and over stimulated minds, it’s challenging to get a moment to ourselves to reflect on any given situation. Allowing time or using alone time effectively for reflection can enhance our lives in many ways.

What is reflection?
Objectively viewing an experience to obtain a better understanding of your role in the situation and why things resulted as they did.

What are the benefits of taking time to reflect?
Reflecting provides the opportunity to understand and get to know yourself on a deeper level. By continuously reflecting you will develop a deeper sense of self awareness and accountability.

How can you implement reflection?
Reflection can be done anywhere or any time that is convenient for you. It can be done by yourself or you can reflect with someone. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

• Why is this feeling or reaction coming up for me?
• What was my experience like in this situation?
• What do I need to learn from this situation or feeling?
• If I could improve how I show up, what might that look like?
• What do I need to do for myself now?
• What do I need to give myself today?

See if implementing some of these questions creates more self awareness in your life.

“Without reflection we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences and failing to achieve anything useful.” Margaret J. Wheatly