Facing yourself in your darkest moments, really looking inward as to how and why you are feeling that way is absolutely daunting for most people.

That’s why people self-medicate, that’s why they run away, that’s why they may have a feeling that things just aren’t right even though everything in their live's seems fine on the outside.

When you get to know a new person it is an amazing discovery, and so too is getting to know yourself.

Many of us are merely beginning our journey's of self-discovery. To enter this journey brings forth an array of possibilities in growth and transformation.

While alone, facing the seemingly lowest moments of your existence, you challenge yourself to move forward, you challenge yourself to look inward and consequently outward to free yourself and your inner being.

Maybe it’s your anger, your bitchiness, your stubbornness or any other destructive trait you may have that is holding you back. If you do realise these limitations and you really want to discover yourself, you have the ability to do so.

There is a negative connotation with being alone, that you’re ‘lonely’, and people may often question your life choices at that particular period.

But think for a moment, how would you pass an exam if you didn’t study? How would you succeed if you didn’t immerse yourself in the content?

Now it’s not about chucking a Tom Hanks Castaway and removing yourself completely from friends, family and society. It’s about questioning yourself and probing a little more than you may have done previously. Because not only will you benefit from this, but so will those around you.

Some of you may be thinking

“The only trip I’m going on is to Cancun to party all summer”,

which by all means is great and will probably be an awesome experience that will teach you things about yourself and your friends. But in order for your life to be examined and entered into, in order to break limiting patterns, to understand why you do things and how, why something upsets you so strongly and it doesn’t affect other people, this introspective trip holds to answers.

Organising an overseas trip may be fun and exciting but planning an introspective journey is potentially life changing and forever beneficial.

Would you not rather create a life inside of you that you’re happy to wake up to everyday than having to constantly look outward for it? Oh and not to mention this is completely free of monetary means.

Once you explore deep enough into your psyche it’s as if you discover a key which unlocks a part of yourself which can never be locked again.

The journey of self-awareness begins at any time, only if you are ready.

- viazenar

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