Increase in self-awareness
How can we cultivate an increase in self-awareness? looking at ourselves as we are right now...
By assessing our current situation, we can identify and develop a clear understanding of our areas of strength and weakness.
Find a quiet place to stay and ask yourself these questions.
What am I doing? What am I not doing? What are my desires? What do I avoid?
As you allow your mind to calm, what kind of thoughts reappear in your mind? Are they positive or negative? How are your relationships are they having an impact on you? What are your judgments, fears, and defenses? Are you carrying any unresolved grief?
Once we know that we are starting, we can develop two or more pictures of ourselves as healthy and balanced or unhealthy and out of balance.
Using the same assessment categories, brainstorm a list of qualities, symptoms, and indicators of either being balanced or out of balance. When do you eat? When do you multitask? Do you check out reality by using some distraction method like television? Do you number yourself with alcohol and drugs? Do you isolate yourself from the cling or presence of others? Do you exercise? Do you talk about feelings?
You can use your self-awareness to practice balance as you create the three contrasting pictures of your present, balanced, and out-of-balance states.