In mindful mediation one lets go of emotional static to reflect on oneself and the ways we cause our own suffering.
Micale's survey stops short of the 21st century, with the reassurance that the symptoms and preoccupations previously diagnosed as hysteria are simply among the occupational hazards of being human, and a worrisome conclusion: that "the true male malady" is what he calls the chronic inability to reflect on oneself — without heroics, evasion or self-deception.
Bojack Horseman tells us that to reflect on the artifice within a family sitcom or a quiz show or a memoir is a way to reflect on oneself.
The way has helped participants to empty themselves and to reflect on oneself: "The physical and medical aspect of the walk has not been the most important after all.
The claim that a work of art "says something to someone" (Palmer 2001, 70) alludes to the surprise, shock and, sometimes, dismay at being directly affected by what is in a work and of being forced to reflect on its claim so that it becomes more understandable to both oneself and others.
Reflecting on one's actions and oneself in relation to normality (the ideal BMI) demonstrates the staged guidance the game provides to the players as they undertake their journey towards self-governance and thus 'a better you'.
Autonomy, it is argued, implies the ability to reflect wholly on oneself, to accept or reject one's values, connections, and self-defining features, and change such elements of one's life at will.
One must compare one's own life with that of those in worse cases, and consider oneself fortunate, reflecting on their sufferings and being so much better off than they.
Reflecting on "what is" as well as "what could be" using real-time feedback as a means of motivating oneself without being pressurised into defining what the end outcome should be.
One may actually turn on oneself.
