Explore your personality

The passion to "discover" has driven the curiosity of man as far away as the Moon, and with the help of satellites even further, to the ends of the universe. but what about our personality?

Our needs and desires seen as something that does not come out of us

Going beyond geographical, technological, social and economic borders is one of the most widespread motivations today. Accessing a new computer, cell phone, neighborhood, job or car reveals this innate drive for progress in the direction of moving towards new territories. However, disproportionate attention to the outside world increasingly conditions the ability to observe the inner world, which is ultimately the only one we truly have..

According to the research carried out in 2004 by the Observatory of the Argentine Social Debt, belonging to the Argentine Catholic University (UCA), 39% of people spend their free time watching audiovisual media (Ex: cinema and TV). They are followed in order of decreasing priority by sports activities (29%), family activities (23%), social and cultural activities (18.9%) and manual, artistic and solidarity activities (12.9%). Western man spends an average of four hours of his free time watching television, a word that derives from Greek (tele: far), (visio: sight).

When we watch television to a certain extent we are "watching from afar." We see from afar our true needs and desires, our conflicts and opportunities, our contradictions and paradoxes ... Everything is deposited there, in the characters that appear on the screen. The distraction that a resolved world provides takes us away from the possibility of finding ways to access what we may really be needing, what we aspire to. The outside world becomes the provider of answers to most questions, curiously before they could even be asked. We are produced externally and even with a certain ease, whether it is ideologies, consumption habits, definition of what is correct and what is not..

The outside invades our privacy without restrictions and establishes its intentions and motives. When this happens, we cling to someone else's discourse, to a certainty that at some point was instilled in us, and to which we cling for the security it offers us. However, not seeing or not questioning what has been instituted does not prevent the inner dissonance that originates as a consequence of a lack of alignment between what we repeat, and what deep down we believe or would like to believe if our identity were not at stake. This dissonance manifests itself in all kinds of symptoms, from physical, mental and even related. Perhaps part of the confusion, anxiety, and even violence that we see on screens and experience on a daily basis may have to do with this inability to harbor what is different, fundamentally within ourselves..

Living in automatic seems easier, but it is not.

Failure to stop and reflect long enough on why, or rather ... why ... we do what we do, leaves us as the only possible way of adaptation to change, to try with all means, to adjust the external world to our rigid programming. It is a path that inexorably leads to victimization and failure. The change could have to do with a new job, a new contextual market reality, a new partner, the arrival of a child, a new president, the move to a new neighborhood, the loss of a loved one, or simply the transition to new chronological stages as we add years to our personal assets. Adaptation implies movement and we cannot move what we do not see or do not know ... like ourselves.

“This is the true joy of life, to be used for a purpose that you yourself recognize as powerful… to be a force of nature rather than a small, feverish, selfish bunch of grudges and grudges that complains all the time. that the world is not dedicated to making you happy ... "George Bernard Shaw. Writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925

Perhaps, many times the complaint refers to the frustration generated by seeing how the world is not dedicated to making us happy ...

Happiness seems not to be in the objects of the world, but in our ability to move internally. It is necessary and even beneficial to redirect the search and efforts. As Soren Kierkegaard, a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian, said, "as someone gets to know himself, he begins to be the person he really is" and it is in this integrity that the seed of happiness can germinate..

A paradigm shift

It is extremely interesting to see how science, devoted to the study of the external world and the objects that inhabit it, has surprisingly found the other side of the same coin. Physics in particular has taken a momentous step towards a paradigm shift in the way we understand the world around us. From Descartes to Einstein, science has always focused on the study of matter in its various shapes and sizes and has left the explanation of mystical phenomena in the hands of religion. However, thanks to technological advances and knowledge oriented to the study of the material, he has found discoveries from physics that were never closer to mysticism and the intangible. Today there is a new physics, quantum physics, which has evolved from Newton's classical physics and Einstein's modern physics into a new vision of the world of objects, and which surprisingly opens access to a new vision of the spiritual world..

Expanding the scope of these discoveries exceeds the possibilities of this text but it is simply interesting to note that as physics has shown, the connection to the inner world is possible from the observation of the outer world, because ultimately they are two sides of the same coin. When we talk about what happens out there, what we see in the laboratory or on the television screen, we are realizing without realizing it, what happens to us internally.

Key questions to get to know you in greater depth

We suggest that you spend about 5 minutes of your free time answering the following questions. It is important that you do it in written form to re-read and analyze them when you reach the final question..

• What has been the scene that you remember the most from a movie you have seen. Describe it with all the details you remember.
• What has been the news in the world that has impacted you the most in recent days. Please narrate the events as if you were telling the story to someone who does not know what happened..
• Who have you sought to get closer to and who to get away from in the last fifteen days. How would you describe these people's personality traits?
• What type of meals have you preferred in the last week and how have you felt emotionally in that same time.
• What have been the attitudes that have bothered you the most from those around you

Now… inner exploration is not an easy task. It requires patience and above all honesty with oneself. It begins with a clue, a piece of data that in turn leads to another and in turn connects with the next while an idea is being put together, a pattern that can be described as a statement or at least as a possibility. Little by little a mystery is revealed that was always there but that we saw vaguely from afar ...

The final question ...
What of everything you have described above has similarities with what happens to you internally??
What does the film say, scene, news, approaches and distances, alien features, chosen foods and attitudes,…. About yourself. If you pay attention to the TV screen you will see that at times and depending on certain lighting conditions, it reflects something of your image ...