It is a term coined in psychology that means thinking about our thinking. It is a skill that forms foundation for self-awareness and regulation.
One tool that can help in the journey of self-awareness and regulation is writing down our thoughts/ journaling.
It doesn't mean that tou have to write beautiful narrative or become a writer. It simply means you spend some time writing your own thoughts. It could be phrases, broken sentences, or just words.
Thus exercise helps give words to your thoughts and the process leads to awareness. Our hidden thoughts become more obvious and we become more aware of our biases, beliefs and we get closer to making the positive changes.
Hope it helps.
I keep a journal myself and never really knew the reason that it helped so much, it's just something I started doing in the first lockdown. It's really cool that there's a term for this though and I'm definitely going to look this up a bit more, thank you!
@Sehrish I. Thanks for this informative post.
can you give a clearer example of metacognition?
Wow, metacognition is such a beautiful concept. I didn't know about this. That's why psychologists recommend journaling.
Writing your thoughts certainly help us to self-aware.
What to do, if a person is extra self-aware and try to mute it?