1. Basic self-talk : This is how we react to ourselves with language, that inner voice or inner critic which is sometimes shaming or making affirmations, or just narrating life. - is your inner dialog harsh or compassionate? Our attitudes toward self-care and self-love fall into this category. Having mindful gratitude and noticing the little things that fill your cup is useful. Literally writing a letter to your past or future self, or even a sticky note or a to do list are ways of communicating with yourself on a very tangible level.
2. Dreamworld information : These are the symbols we use to leave notes-to-self & ways of clarifying hopes, fears and understandings, via representations, as we digest the finished day and prepare for another. Daydreams and fantasies are insights into the metaphors we express our situation with. Gratification from imagined scenarios is a form of validation.
3. The stories we tell ourselves about our lives implicitly and take for granted : our personal mythologies and archetypes. Stories like the reason I give when people ask why I don't have pets or children - "I can't take care of a houseplant". They are not necessarily true, they are just what we go with.
4. Conversations with the Higher Self : We can do meditations and ceremonies to attain self-knowledge beyond the ego. Many spiritual people of fame and notoriety have done this. Guides can be seen as aspects of self or as sacred mirrors. You may think about planning your life with the Creator before your birth, or experiencing a past life regression.
5. Intuition, emotion, thoughts and physical sensory information : Consider accidents and ailments as psychosomatic sometimes, indicating other issues at play in your life.
6. Emphasis and Significance : Forgetting and Remembering and having Eureka moments. Also, what is deja vu in your opinion?
7. Choice : What do you gift to yourself? Think of the food, clothing, home decorations, cravings, impulses and unconscious behaviours and other fleeting preferences you have in your life - what do they express? People we associate with and the places we go also speak to us on a deep level - what do we tell ourselves about where we belong, what we deserve and are willing to settle for?
8. Spontaneous art: How do we find ourselves interpreting dance, what is our self-analysis of visual arts, How are we reflecting on improvisational jamming, Are we questioning rehearsals of conversations/situations, Do we explore automatic writing exercises as expressions of the subconscious mind, etc.
If you have any thoughts about self-communication and your own path, please let me know your ideas and questions!
♥ Jacki