I’ve been divining knowledge of selfhood from a young age, and I want others to find joy in finding themselves. This is part one of a series on diagramming the Self.
Below is the starting point – how we sort the wheat from the chaff and begin to live authentically as ourselves. It’s useful in many contexts, not just in adult reflection, but in childhood musings; not just in gifted intellectual forays, but in otherwise neurodiverse mental explorations. Use this model together as a family or team and begin to build a stronger inner scaffolding today!
LOOP 1 – The Self-Awareness Loop
(How you understand what’s happening inside you)
1️⃣ NOTICE
❇️ Pause long enough to see what’s actually present – not what you assume is there.
💡What am I sensing, thinking, or reacting to?
2️⃣ INTERPRET
❇️ Sort the input. Decide which parts are yours and which belong to the environment.
💡Why does this matter to me, not just in general?
3️⃣ ALIGN
❇️ Choose actions that don’t betray what you just learned about yourself.
💡What can I do that reflects what I now understand?
4️⃣ INTEGRATE
❇️ Let your actions update who you are. You are allowed to outgrow old versions of yourself.
💡What truth am I carrying forward into the next moment?
Flow summary:
See → Understand → Act → Become → See again (with more clarity)
More installments to come. This is the first learning tool I’ve formalized and externalized, so it’s up to revision; but it’s fairly streamlined as is.
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