Self Reflection

Most days, my head reminds me of a snow globe. As I wake every morning, my thoughts get shaken up and gently rain down in my mind, condensing into full, solid ideas. Most days, I think up fantasies.

Have you ever stopped to think about what you were thinking? Or have ever spaced out and knew you were spaced out but didn’t want to space back out? Have you ever noticed that you are always thinking, even if you think you’re not thinking, you’re still thinking? Thinking has a lot to do with perspective in my opinion; it all depends on your own experience and thoughts about the situation you’re thinking about.  

From a young age and for most of my life I lived exclusively in my mind. I vividly remember all of the thoughts I had of “I wish this were to happen” or “I wish I could do this” and the many years of struggling to articulate and verbalize what I had to actually say. I knew I had a tendency to overthink most occurrences and from what I saw when I looked around a room I thought I was the only one who did. But in most moments of my disorientation I had the assurance that my back up plan, my friend Ben, would understand, and if he didn't then at least we could make dumb jokes about our situations.

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

Once I began to think, I couldn’t stop. My mind was with tangled with buzzing and incessant thoughts, distracting me from reality regardless of my futile attempts to silence them. Inconveniently, my thought tangents were triggered by usually overlooked situations and lasted

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If we asked you to write down what you were thinking right now, you might scribble out a paragraph or two about a stressful homework assignment, or what you had for lunch, or the very exciting text message that just appeared on your phone. Most likely you'd offer your version of this interior monologue in complete sentences, arranged in a somewhat logical sequence. It would, therefore, be totally inaccurate. In reality, your mind is processing all three of those things at once—plus the brightness of your computer screen, the pinch of your shoes on your feet, and a bunch of stuff that happened when you were a kid that you don't even know that you know. In short, if you could really and truly represent in words what your mind looks like right

My mind is a hive during these hours it is when I am most attack by a swarm of random thoughts. When you enjoy the tranquility of your surroundings, but your mind is a complete disarray. Yes, it's utterly overwhelming when there's a heap of thoughts in your head during hours you're supposed to be resting, but it became my introspective moment regardless.

This report conducted an analytical study on the possibilities of mind absenteeism and how these are triggered while trying to analyse what is happening in our thoughts, and how aware is the human consciousness of mind wandering. This study also explores the direct effect of the external environment while human subjects conduct a task directed function (Barron, Riby, Greer, & Smallwood, 2011).

My subconscious almost makes another appearance to tell me a story idea I've thought about for the past three years and I quickly shut it out.

As I am laying in my bed, I can hear the voices pounding in my head. Sometimes it feels like my brain throughout the day is fried but once I am laying in bed my thoughts come alive. Some thoughts are about here and now while others are about what will my life be like 5 years from now. Always wondering about what will happen next…but that’s the beauty about writing because all of my dreams and demons are out of my head.

As I wait for time to pass, my eyes slip closed and my imagination wanders. My mind

In Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Rip goes to sleep for twenty years to escape his nagging wife. When he wakes up, everything has changed. During these twenty years, he is in a mindless state. This story can relate to everyone because we all have mindless states, yet they are all unique to the individual. For me, my mindless states are a way to escape “reality” and feel at peace. I experience mindless states through several different activities. They are being in school, listening to music, and being on my phone. These are simple activities yet they take me to a different place and I escape what I am doing in the moment. My mindless states can have positive and negative effects on me. They may be what is helping me break free from the moment but when it is time to come back to reality, I am shocked at what I have missed and forgotten to do. I am so deep in my mindless state, I forget time is passing and I have done nothing.

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

Starting this assignment I was nervous because I wasn’t sure what my personal philosophy was. It took hours of self reflection for be to discover my counseling philosophy is fairly simple. It’s keeping it real. What does keeping it real mean? To me this means being honest with who I am as a person, translating it into my counseling skills, and most importantly project honesty to my future client’s in an effective manner. While it is important to keep it real with the client, it is important to do it in an empathetic and professional way. There is such thing as keeping it too real, which can lead to a bad counseling relationship, possibly ending in a referral to a new counselor.