The Benefits of Self Awareness

• Introspection is the process of trying to access your internal psychological processes, judgments, perceptions, or states.
• Self-reflection increases your ability to exercise control over your emotions. It involves the examination, contemplation, and analysis of your tho...

• Self distancing allows us to gain perspective. By creating space, we can reframe the situation in more abstract terms.
• In turn, it will enable us to respond appropriately. Our response is then not directed towards the exact event, but instead take...

Suffering arises when people concretize the fleeting swirls of thought, especially around conceptions of self. Default-mode content involves an image of self, one that’s easy to become attached to. These self conceptions carry lots of emotional weight. We think that the image of the self...