Anthony,
Anything you do mindfully will get you to know yourself better.
Really.
Image streaming will get you more familiar with the activity of your mind and through it you will get to know yourself. Or, rather, the ever changing aspects of yourself represented by your mind.
You may notice reoccurring patterns and ask, "What does this indicate about me, who I am?" Beware, however, of attaching yourself to any phenomena too strongly. Just because it comes from you does not mean it is you. Its just a statement about you at a given moment in time.
I think an attitude of openness and acceptence helps. So does curiousity, and you've already shown that.
Keep asking questions, keep being curious, keep reflecting.
The goal isn't, however, to be continually self-conscious, because who you are when you're self-conscious is only part of the whole picture. There are contexts in which you properly have no self-consciousness ... where self-consciousness may actually interfere with what you're doing. In those cases, dedicate yourself fully to whatever you're doing without self-consciousness and reflect upon it later.
Also, you might ponder a bit on what it is to "know." Is knowing necessarily self-conscious knowing? Or perhaps are there other levels of knowing? Are there was to be responsive to yourself without self-consciousness? To know yourself wihtout having to know consciously that you know yourself?
Some people's sense of self expands out into the world around them. When they see a blackbird flying in a certain direction, it means something about them to themselves. In a sense, the world does reflect you....
One thing I suspect about your current approach is that you may think that you must do something extra in order to know yourself when, actually, this is it. This is you right now. You don't have to *do* anything in particular. No particular processes. Just be open and sensitive when you can afford to be.
The feelings exercise in AFL is really good for this stuff.
Anyway, good luck. This is an area where we are all, perpetually, students.
[This message has been edited by babayada (edited November 08, 2004).]
