DISCERNMENT

Hello my dear reader 😊👋

In this post I am being thoughtful about the very popular and important word "DISCERNMENT". 

You must have used this term in your communication many times. It's a perfect topic to go through in a deeper sense. Let's understand the meaning first. 

Discernment is the ability or a vital skill for seeing clearly, judging wisely and choosing thoughtfully. It helps you to build thoughtfulness while taking important decisions, thinking beyond mere knowledge and intelligence. While Intelligence helps you to make decisions faster, discernment gives you a clear picture and helps you to distinguish between what's really important and what's merely a distraction. It helps you to act wisely.

In today's world where our life is going on a very fast pace entangled in modern technologies, you are forced to take quick decisions for things around you like a quick response to every email, making apt choices for each and every kind of work you are doing. Our surroundings are full of information, opinions and a constant demand for urgent attention.

Present day life is filled with numerous choices and you need to be quite vigilant while making correct choices. Here you have to be discerning while thinking wisely and choosing thoughtfully, taking decisions on the basis of good over bad, true over false, genuine over fake, reliability over brilliance. It is more based on your understanding and not on any  intuition or emotion. What your heart already knows, I mean to say that your inner voice tells the real difference between what's genuine and what's not. Discernment is actually not only judging, it actually gives you a full understanding from within. For instance to select a perfect employee the interviewers on the board team would read the applicant's overall behaviour by giving him/her partial information and asking to complete the task. Here the game changers will only survive by keeping their pace at the required momentum without getting distracted or frustrated by the mere information they have been provided. If they use discernment here to complete their given task, they would be able to complete it in an effective way. The interviewers read the behaviour throughout the process. During this their skills too got tested sideways. The board team uses discernment as their key to choose an employee for the long run as skill can be trained but character is expensive to fix that's why behaviour matters more than potential.

Discernment brings you peace as when decisions are taken right through your heart by being thoughtful and building trust since you consider all the nuances before taking any decision or getting into any situation. 

HOW TO USE DISCERNMENT

This is crucial for effective decision making in personal, professional and spiritual context too.

In daily life -  Choosing friends, making career moves, while dealing with complex situations.

In Leadership - Making sound decisions and understanding team dynamics. A leader can flourish a firm/ company if he/she take wise decisions that too thoughtfully keeping all the pros and cons of the decision in mind.

Spiritually - Needed in seeking correct guidance on vocation or life paths. Helps in distinguishing between right and wrong in a moral sense.

For Self Guidance: you can use discernment to understand your life's goal, beliefs, choices in various aspects like education, career, relationship etc.

Even your day to day life demands discernment if you really wish to flourish in your life.

To Understand Others: Using discernment, without being judgmental and on a positive note you can perceive the deeper truths about people's character and hidden motives rather than superficial appearances. You can see through the masks that one is wearing and understand the real person behind that mask.  

In Decision Making: This can be used in multiple areas of your life where you need to take decisions wisely and make sure that you are choosing thoughtfully. Saying no to the wrong things and optimistically say yes to all the right things at the same time. Go for essential and drop the unnecessary chaos. 

WHAT PROCESS DISCERNMENT INVOLVES 

• Slowing down and reflecting: Before taking any decision you need to stop and think without being emotional about various aspects related to the situation you are dealing with. 

• Self Awareness: To select the correct direction you first understand yourself , your own biases and the manner in which you look things should be without twisting facts. How you perceive things really matters a lot.

• Questioning: This is an important aspect of discernment as you need a thorough study of whatever you do. Go deeper and check all the hidden facts which will help you to understand the better and clear picture. 

 

• Testing and Examining: Do strict checking on the given information and study every bit of the situation before you jump on to any conclusion. 

WHAT A DISCERNMENT IS NOT ABOUT 

Discernment is not about criticism, it's about wise assessment. It brings pure feelings of understanding without being emotional. It's about clarity and not paranoia. 

So my dear reader from today onwards start incorporating discernment in your life's journey if you really wish to live a satisfactory life. 

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