Insight Development Counseling

Self-care and insight are united in your mental health.

Without focusing on mental health, our overall health declines.

Do you have good insight into yourself? Do you think that insight has anything to do with your health? Can you recognize that thinking about yourself assists you to learn about your experiences, and helps you gain self-awareness? Does it matter at all if we look into ourselves?

If you haven’t pondered these questions, perhaps now is a good time to do so. We learn so much about ourselves from not only thinking about ourselves, but about knowing about ourselves, and about putting forth effort to learn about us. We know so much about ourselves, but we must look. This is having insight.

You may be thinking “yeah, I know myself, I am great, so what?”

If this sounds like you, you may be benefit from hearing that insight has been so important to mankind, that for many years, perhaps thousands of years, the ability that man has had to have insight, has been a major tool that has driven many important strategies to approach wellness and health.

Insight essentially is reflection, personal thought, resting with the experiences that you have already had; insight has been the foundational focus of thousands of years of meditation.

Taking a period of time alone, to reflect your experiences, thoughts, feelings, and the energy associated with your experiences can be a good place to start. When you allow yourself this time to think and feel about your experiences, you open yourself up to the connections that you have “just lying around in your head.”

Building insight into yourself, and even partaking in “insight meditation,” can be the purpose and practices that you work on in therapy and counseling with us. Insight sometimes is the base of counseling, as without insight into ourselves, and without the ability to build our awareness and admit our thoughts, feelings, and experiences in therapy, we are without a major tool that comes natural at our birth.

You may work hard and fast, and you may work in stressful situations. Sometimes you may find yourself trying to be insightful, but you may find that you often put your thoughts and feelings on the back burner so you can proceed with what you are currently working on. When we work with people that stress us out, and when we work in situations that demand of our entirety to be present, insightfulness may be something we learn to devalue. Learning to devalue our insight, is not insightful.

When you begin to become more and more concerned with productivity, and when you are struggling to focus on yourself, you lose the natural gift that you have to care about your experiences.

In our interventions at ThoughtWise, we specialize in providing you that space and time that you need to focus on yourself, to gain a sense of mindfulness, to gain insight. These factors can be a major focus of what you can approach in therapy. We recommend you see us.