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6. The Goal of Self-Awareness Is Self-Acceptance
- Self-awareness is wasted if it does not result in self-acceptance. If great self-awareness is coupled with self-judgment, then you’re merely becoming more aware of all the ways you deserve to be judged.
- Empathy can only occur in proportion to our own self-acceptance. It’s only by accepting the flaws of our own emotions and our own minds that we are able to look at the flaws of the emotions and minds of others, and rather than judge them or hate them, feel compassion for them.
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3. What Are Your Blind Spots?
The important thing is just that we’re self-aware about our weaknesses. Otherwise, we become enslaved to our mind’s faulty mechanisms. Our minds are flawed in many ways-
- Our ability to predict our thoughts and feelings in the future is poor.
- We constantly overestimate ourselve...
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1. What Are You Doing?
- We avoid pain through distraction. We transport our minds to some other time or place or world where it can be safe and insulated from the pain of day-to-day life.
- Now, there’s nothing wrong with distraction. We all need some sort of diversion to keep us sane and happy. The key is th...
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2. What Are You Feeling?
- What people often find is that the more they remove themselves from distraction, the more they are forced to actually deal with a lot of the emotions that they’ve been avoiding for a long time.
- It takes time to become comfortable with all of your emotions.
- BUT, emotions can ...
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Self Awareness
Self Awareness is our ability to observe and accurately identify our thoughts, feelings and impulses, and determine whether they are grounded in reality or not.
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- Aids self-control, creativity, pride, and self-esteem.
- Predicts self-development, a...
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5. How To Increase Your Self-Awareness
- Practice Mindfulness- Mindfulness is simply the practice of observing what is going on in your mind, body, and environment with focus, clarity, and, importantly, acceptance of what is happening.
- Write things down- The simple act of organizing your t...
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4. Ways To Overcome Blind Spots
Freeing ourselves from the twisted confines of our mind comes down to a few things:
- Hold Weaker Opinions- Recognize that you can be wrong.
- Take yourself less seriously- Many of your actions are reactions to meaningless emotions.
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Kinds Of Emotions
- In Psychology, emotions can be either the result of an experience of a situation, or a certain perception of changes that occur within our bodies.
- There are higher emotions like self-awareness, self-consciousness, and an increased sense of empathy or compassion for others. ...
6. Struggling with Self-Acceptance
Despite their intelligence and potential, they often fail to see their own worth. They focus on their perceived flaws and shortcomings, while overlooking their strengths and capabilities.
Their internal dialogue is often one of self-criticism and self-doubt. They might be their own harshest...
Self-Awareness Is The Solution
If we want to get out of the downward spiral of self-loathing and stop ourselves from self-destruction, we need to start being self-aware and understand the virtues of forgiveness, mercy, steadfastness and resilience.
Our survival depends on our thinking the best for ourselves, an...
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