Discovering Inherent Virtues / Values Meditation enables us to achieve self-awareness and self-realization (a true sense of who we really are), and discover our inherent virtues or specialties, which lay hidden within each of us.1. Use a flower as a basis for meditation. You should be completely focused on the flower, and no other thoughts should enter your mind.3. How might the qualities of the flower reflect aspects of your self? 4. Now consider each different characteristics you have given the flower. Think about each of it in terms of how it might correspond to your personality.5. If the flower has any negative aspects (is one of the petals drying out?), what might this be telling you about yourself? Concentrate on mending the negative, making your self-image wholly positive.6. Connect with the flower in this way, until you feel that the beauties you see are a direct reflection of your virtues.In the above exercise, the form of the flower's many petals may be seen to correspond to your virtues; the fragrance may correspond to the quality of your thoughts; and the colour may refer to some of your positive moods or emotions (green for your love of the world, red for calm assertion, blue for enveloping sympathy). What you see, in the moment of meditation, is what you are.