The journey to finding yourself

Many of us are on that self discovery journey of 'finding ourselves'. Often many, especially women feel that they need to take some time out from their current routine of life to break away and go and find themselves. Often this can involve taking a trip to somewhere new by themselves, or breaking up with a partner, so they have more time to focus on themselves and can devote all the time to this journey.

But what if all this change was not essential to finding yourself. You can find yourself right now, right where you are without breaking up with your partner or taking that trip (unless you want to of course).

The self that you are longing to find, is right here with you. It has always been with you, since day one, the only reason you struggled to find it is because you haven't been focusing on it. Instead you have been focusing on other things and other people and neglected yourself. That is why you have that feeling of loss and uncertainty around you. You haven't connected to your true self.

Society has shown us over the years that the journey to finding yourself has to be long and huge sacrifices have to be made to make this happen. Yes some sacrifices do have to be made, in the form of spending time getting to know yourself and doing those things that make you smile. That journey can be done in the comfort of your own home and in the comfort of your own destination. You do not have to do a Eat, Pray, Love journey (although I love what she did).

You are already that person that you are trying to find. You can find that person looking back at you in the mirror every day. She/he is the person who is crying out for some attention and some time to be in your life.

So what are the 3 things you need to make a success of finding yourself?

1. Alone time as often as you can (but you don't need to give people up totally, especially not breaking happy relationships up for it).

2. Meditation and Journaling

3. Openness to experiencing new things

Once you can implement these 3 things into your life, you have begun your 'finding yourself' journey already.

Finding yourself should be fun. It should enlighten you and bring more to this table of life. It should enhance your life and not take you away from life. If you have to leave and break ties with people to find yourself, you will struggle to continue with the flow of life and bringing the 'new you' into the daily routine of your life. This will then leave you feeling you have to let go of one thing for the other.

This should not be the case.

You are already living a life that you have created and therefore, you should add value to it by bringing 'you' more into the limelight and sharing your true authentic self with others who are already a part of your life or new people you connect with.

So if you are on this journey to finding yourself or you are thinking of starting on this journey, start with re-focusing on yourself where you are right now. No trip or break-ups needed just a change of focus and start to enjoy the blessings of just being you.

Not only will this make it so much easier, but it will be fun to and an easier transition in life.