The different aspects of Psychological Mindedness (PM) are as follows: self-examination, self-reflection, introspection, and personal insight.
It also touches upon the ability of reading between the lines, the correlation of past and present, and insights on your own motives and the motives as well as intentions of others around you.
All of this is important for 10 reasons,
1. Self-examination reaffirms your motives and beliefs in life.
It goes without saying that it’s important for you to always look into yourself and ask the question, ‘am I doing what’s right for myself and those around me?’ It helps reorient yourself on your goals and how to best achieve them while still having your beliefs and morals play a part.
2. Self-reflection as a means to strengthen your self-esteem.
Reflecting on your actions is a way for you to develop and strengthen your self-esteem. With every good deed and accomplishment that you do in life, may it be personally or helping those around you, it’s a good way to boost your self-esteem and encourage yourself to keep moving forward in life.
3. Introspection in helping you find what you need most in life
There comes a time where you will feel that you’re either lost in what you need to do in life or burnt out from what you’ve been doing. In order to find the root of these feelings, you need to look and examine your own thoughts and feelings. In a spiritual sense, you need to look deep within your soul. From there you ask yourself what will give you peace of mind.
4. Using personal insight to help you assess the situation before you act on it
The phrase, ‘striking the iron while its hot’ means that while the situation is still underway you need to do something even if your mind isn’t completely set on a plan. It’s a phrase of encouraging confidence in people, but at times that confidence can become ignorance if you don’t think before you act. Using personal insight on situations or with people will help you assess a situation and increase your chances of being helpful in that situation.
5. Reading between the lines in order to understand someone’s circumstances
Often, you’ll find yourself having a hard time understanding what others mean, especially when they can’t be upfront about it. It pays to be a psychological minded person as you’ll be able to see through the lines of what others may say and understand why they have a difficult time sharing such information.
6. Picking up on the changes in mood of others during certain situations
Being emotionally sensitive is part of being a psychologically minded person. It will help you see the small details of people and understand that there are certain triggers that causes them to shift their mood, and in seeing that you could then work to avoid repeating the same action and create a safe space for them.
7. Understanding that people are emotionally complex
It’s good to remind yourself that people aren’t one dimensional, that they have different aspects to them that you may not be aware of. Just because your friend is happy around you, doesn’t mean that they’re always going to be happy around you. Knowing that will help your friend and the people around you be comfortable showing more sides to themselves to you.
8. Knowing that past actions is correlated with future events
It’s easy to say that your actions have consequences, but it’s harder to understand what those consequences may be as your actions now may not even immediately you until years down the line. This is a part of PM that will restrain you from doing anything radical so that you may avoid future consequences that you want to avoid. However, it can also be seen as something hopeful. Your actions today, will blossom for you in the future.
9. Understanding the intentions and motives of others
Being a psychologically minded person helps you in choosing the right people to surround yourself with, as you’ll be able to tell which will be your lasting friends and which will be people that have only ulterior motives in mind.
10. Knowing relationships through insight and emotional sensitivity
Entering a friend group is difficult if you don’t know the relationships of the people in that circle, but with your insight and emotional sensitivity you can avoid misunderstandings and actions that would lead to in-fighting because you would be able to tell what kind of relationships there are in that circle. It’s also a good way to make new friends and maybe even see a potential partner for yourself in life who may also be interested in you.
