Introduction
Self-mastery, the ability to manage yourself, is a super important character trait or quality, one you need to cultivate if you dont already have it, or improve upon if you already have it but could use a bit more of it; its almost certain that no matter who you are, you could use a bit more self-mastery in your life.
Would you like to know why learning how to manage yourself is so important? Well, its simple; because by being a great self-manager, you become someone capable of acting instead of reacting to every day circumstances, experiences, emotions, demands of life, etc. When you develop the ability to act instead of reacting to all the experiences that make up your life experience, here is what happens:
*: You stop reacting emotionally to circumstances you deem unanticipated or undesired. For instance, once you develop the ability to manage your SELF, instances of reacting with anger to common trigger situations/circumstances shall decrease significantly.
*: When you develop self-mastery, taking action towards your chief aims and aspirations shall become easier because self-mastery is the ability to become aware and manageyour attention and energies. For instance, once you develop self-mastery, you shall become more aware of your tendency to procrastinate and postpone important tasks; how this affects your overall life also shines through brightly, so shall the benefits and disadvantages of your actions or inactions.
From this awareness, you will gain self-knowledge and become able to see how the various decisions you make shape your life, and because you will have developed self-awareness, you will start making decisions and taking actions that ultimately lead to the fulfilment of your chief aims, the life of your dreams.
*: Moreover, when you develop the ability to self-regulate, i.e. when you become capable of managing yourself in whatever situation or circumstance, you also become capable of influencing your behavior. The ability to influence your behavior at any given time means you can pause before you act.
The ability to control yourself, what we shall henceforth regard as self-masterywe shall also use the various associated synonymshas tons of other benefits such as increased patience, grit, increased focus, a purposeful life, more peace and happiness, etc.
The essence of this guide is to show you how to develop self-mastery using the most advanced self-management tool or strategy known to man: meditation.
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Self-Mastery: Why and How Meditation Can Help You Manage Your SELF
The first thing we shall do here is seek to cultivate a baseline foundation of what it means to manage yourself.
The ability to manage yourself has various other names. For instance, when talking about the subject matter, we often use words such as self-mastery, self-regulation, self-control, self-discipline, willpower, self-restraint, and other words whose essence is to define the ability to exert control over ones actions, decisions, emotions, habits, impulses, etc.
This, its the ability to be aware of yourself, to understand your various mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical states, and from this awareness, to control the various stimuli-triggered impulses that lead to the creation of your life, shall be our baseline definition of self-mastery, or rather, of what it means to manage yourself.
While the definition may sound scientific and complex, it is in fact not. Simplified, what this means is that self-mastery is the ability to become aware of your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual states of being, and from this awareness, control how you act and react to internal and external stimuli such as your thoughts, emotions, and the various experiences and happenings in your life.
Self-mastery is the ability to become aware of, to understand, and then to control your thoughts, emotions, actions, decisions, and habits within any given situation. We can also state that self-control is the ability to command and regulate the only thing any of us has complete control over: ourselves.
Epictetus, a great philosopher, once noted the nature of human existence by saying, It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Managing yourself is exactly that: the ability to control how you act or react to the circumstances that make up your life. It is not the ability to control what happens; none of us can control that!
Developing the ability to manage your thoughts, words, actions, emotions, decisions, etc. can have a dramatic positive effect on all areas of your life. For instance, by becoming more aware of your inner state, i.e. your emotions, thoughts, mental states, beliefs, etc. you effectively become more aware of how these emotional states influence your decisions and actions in life, and by becoming thus aware, you become capable of self-regulation.
If you are wondering what any of this has to do with meditation, here is the thing:
How and Why Meditation Makes You More Self-Mastered
The first step to self-mastery is usually self-awareness. As used here, self-awareness means being conscious, aware, or cognizant of your conscious and unconscious self, and of everything. When we say, he or she is very self-aware, what we mean by this is that the person in question has developed the ability to be perceptive of his or her emotions, actions, decisions, habits, thoughts, actions, reactions, environment, etc.
When you are self-aware, it means you know how you act (or fail to act) in given situations, and are actively conscious of your beliefs, thought patterns, emotions, physical and nonphysical actions, and how all of these things influence the life you live right now and aspire to live in the future.