If you identify as someone who is self-aware & also finds yourself stuck in your patterns & behaviors, this is for you.
You need to understand the difference between self-intellectualization & self-understanding.
A significant percent of the global populace believes they are highly self-aware. Yet, through emotional intelligence & intuitive skills testing, a minimal amount of the global populous is genuinely self-aware.
What's happening is individuals are confusing self-intellectualization with self-understanding.
Self-intellectualization, for those who are not familiar with its definition, is akin to constantly trying to solve life's problems, like finding all the puzzle pieces of who you are, & why you are the way you are by way of where all of your patterns come from.
Self-intellectualisation is a symptom of internalized shame.
When you have been conditioned to believe something is at a core level fundamentally inaccurate or dysfunctional about you that you feel you are inherently broken, dysfunctional, or abnormal - you subconsciously become addicted to seeing yourself in this way.
You will collate read receipts to validate this information in your perception of reality in the world supporting this notion.
You begin to use the evidence you perceive as accurate to validate your brokenness. That is self-intellectualisation.
Self-understanding that can move into self-inner-standing from a multidimensional energetic exchange is where you have a deeply intimate felt relationship with your inner world, internal world, your actual intuition/soul, emotional embodied awareness, emotional body & can identify when your inner critic is speaking vs your soul.
A tool for you to differentiate between the two - Self intellectualization asks why, why are you the way you are
Self-understanding to self -inner-standing is all about the what, what is essential for me to learn, what am I feeling, & what do I want to feel.
WHY blocks you directly from your unconscious mind
WHAT, opens it up.
I hope this helps you gain clarity as you choose new ways to connect to your self-healing abilities in 2024 & beyond.