Top 3 techniques for knowing yourself better in Psychology

I couldn't lie how I loved writing and pouring out my heart on this blog. Well, say what, I just read this is a part of psychological treatments. No wonder it worked so well in my deadly days!

We're going to learn today-

Why do we need to learn?

There is this desire in each of us that we cannot accept barely. It is the unscrupulous, hated, anxious self i.e. our unconscious self. There resides many impressions, each of which have had some impact on us at certain time in life. Some of them are our moral responsibilities to restrain eg. murder. But if we repress, it increases in us the 'pent up' emotion. Thus there is a way to do it well, techniques to clear it out-Self Analysis. This on the whole will help you know yourself better, thus increasing confidence, security and self satisfaction.



Top 3 Techniques o Self-Analysis:

1. The Autobiographical Method
   
   This is a story of your life, everyone has one & it doesn't take an author. Contrary to your belief, every one our lives can be a great movie. It is full of facts and secrets that we only know. This autobiography shall be only for you. You must secure its position and in it write all you have had. Start with your youngest years, the people you know, how any situation occurred,how you reacted to it, what were your emotional reactions, what were your thoughts,your degree of responsibility towards the situation,the secrets. Any situation where you wanted to act differently, jot down all the factors associated with it and justify your behavior. you must reasonably fight this case in your behalf and come to a conclusion. Once you have decided, your head gets clear and life easy.
   eg. prob:I wished I had cracked the medical exam if only I had not fallen sick
         soln:I will do it this next year
   
2. The Questionnaire Method
   
   Jot down a list of all the life-problems you have. Then write the answers to each of them. Even if you don't know, write what you think is best solution because here you have to write an answer, don't worry sometimes when we are not sure, it is the best solution. This is a different way of approaching the first method but if you put together all the answers, you get your autobiography-kind of.
   
3. Free Association Method
   
   This is talking out the cause of your troubles. The psychiatrist urges to talk on the problem areas like vengeance and more the person speaks, more is he cured. We sometimes have a chain of thoughts and currently stick to only the resultant of despair or frustration. Slowly when the thoughts are revealed out of our system, it already gets out.
   This similar thing happens when we recite it in a poem,blog,song etc. Expression is thus very important.

courtesy reference-Helping Yourself With Psychiatry by Dr.Frank S. Caprio, M.D.

Let me know which of them you tried and how did you find this insight into yourself? Share in comments below.