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Connecting With Yourself to Become Your Best Self

Jennifer McDougall
2 min readJan 28, 2023

Knowing yourself is a process of self-discovery and exploration. As you learn more about your innermost desires and needs, you can become more connected with yourself and live a life aligned with your values. Here are some tips for connecting with yourself to be your best self.

Connecting With Yourself to Become Your Best Self
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Meditate Regularly

Meditation is one of the essential tools for connecting to yourself. When you meditate, you are allowing your thoughts, feelings, and emotions to come to the surface without judgment or attachment. This provides space for those feelings to be experienced and released, giving you a greater understanding of who you are without all the extra noise.

Meditation also helps clear mental clutter so that you can make decisions from a place of clarity rather than reactivity. Try meditating for 5 minutes every day until it becomes part of your routine.

Keep a Journal

Journaling is an invaluable tool for introspection and self-reflection. Keeping track of your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and experiences in writing can help clarify what’s happening inside you. In addition, by creating this log over time, patterns will emerge, which will help increase your understanding of how your mind works in different situations.

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Jennifer McDougall
Jennifer McDougall

Written by Jennifer McDougall

Host of Life Refined podcast 🎙️ Personal Growth | Self-Improvement | Wellness 💡 Helping you level up your mindset & life. https://linktr.ee/jenmcdougall

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