Introspection

[Sarah]

A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward;specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspectionof one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind hasof its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.I was forced to make an introspection into my own mind. Dryden.

[Sarah]

[in-truh-spek-shuh n]
noun
1.
observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.

2.the tendency or disposition to do this.

3.sympathetic introspection.

[Zipporah Schumaker]

examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings:

[Couch Potatoe]

The examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional processes.