Monday Musings: are you reflecting or reliving?
Reflection is widely considered a critical process for increasing self-awareness, and a catalyst for growth. Yet few of us are taught how to reflect, and this is why some of us will fall into the trap of reliving vs. reflecting. Both are backward-looking, but one adds in a crucial ingredient for true growth: distance. Reliving is replaying an experience by stepping fully into it. What this means is that we re-experience the emotions and thought patterns associated with an ev