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- ‘Internal’ reflection when you actively think about a problem or situation that is bugging you and you think needs to change
- ‘Daydream’ reflection when you are thinking about numerous things, which may include reflective elements or not. Essentially this is where your mind wanders on a very long car journey and too much time.
Ok I made all of these terms up to “best fit” what I mean. These do not say how deep this reflection goes or how they are structured though. I don’t want this post to be too long, so I would just say that there are many aspects of reflection.
- Whether it is directed at something or not
- Whether there is a process created for the purpose of active reflection
- What reflection is aimed at is likely to play an important part (e.g. comparing the loss of a loved one because they grew to hate you will invoke a different kind of reflection than whether you hit last years targets of world domination
The above needs considering in order to establish what framework you might want to use to reflect, understand what the context's influence is on things and thus how to reflect on things most effectively. The only way we can truly affect our future is by thinking about what we are doing. We are often trained to be doers and producers for society, but to affect ourselves and understand how we can do things 'better' (whatever your definintion is) we must reflect.
