Introspection Into Inner-self

The inner self is the subconscious repository of your thoughts, memories, emotions, and other aspects of your mind that make up who you are. It’s the private, internal part of yourself you generally do not share with others—the core of your being.

Introspection means “to look inside,” and describes the act of thinking about your own actions or inner thoughts. When you examine what you do, say, think or feel and how it affects your life and the lives of others, that’s introspection.

It’s easy to piece together the meaning of the noun introspection. Consider that intro means “within,” while spec is from the Latin for “look.” So you can tell that the word means the act of “looking within.” Introspection isn’t “thinking about yourself” in the sense of calculating your own interests; it’s more like searching inside in order to understand yourself — what some people mock as “navel gazing.” Nineteenth-century philosopher William Godwin once said, “The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed is mainly derived from the act of introspection.”

Have you ever thought about who you are? What you stand for?

I’m not talking about your life roles or your social identity. You can be a friend, brother/sister, employee, boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, father/mother, and son/daughter all at the same time, but these are just an aspect of you. They don’t represent who you fundamentally are on the inside. Your inner self is who you really are on the inside.

To know your inner self is to know your purpose, values, vision, goals, motivations, and beliefs. Not what you have been told by others, but what you have discovered for yourself. Knowing your inner self requires a high level of introspection and self-awareness. If you have clarity of at least half of what is listed above, you probably have quite a high level of self-awareness. At the same time, the process of self-discovery never ends — it’s a life-long journey.

https://www.verywellmind.com/tension-between-inner-self-and-outer-self-4171297