Why you need to think by yourself.

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Title : Why you need to think by yourself.
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It helps you feel relaxed
You think alone without interference and noise, so your mind and body will be comfortable
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Please correct the mistakes, including the underlined part.
 

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Do these benefits describe a need?
 

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I guess you're talking about sitting alone in a room and organizing your thoughts. You get in in touch with your inner self.
 

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Do an introspection?
 

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Title: Why you need to think by yourself.
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It helps you feel relaxed.
You think alone without interference and noise, so your mind and body will be comfortable.
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Please correct the mistakes, including the underlined part.

I've just about got used to this strange requirement for you to put each sentence on its own line. However, under no circumstances can you omit the closing full stop at the end of a sentence.
 

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That's not grammatical.

What I meant was the whole mental process that OP described can be called "introspection". What's wrong with "doing introspection"?
 
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What's wrong with "doing introspection"?

Nobody said there was anything wrong with it. But it's not what you wrote. "An introspection" is incorrect because introspection is uncountable.
 

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I have never encountered it as countable.

I find engage in introspection much more natural than do introspection.
 
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Introspection is not a synonym for meditation in BrE.
 
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