Developing Self Awareness - Inspired Life Change Follows


Developing self awareness is key to inspired life change and authentic self-development of any kind. We first become aware of a predicament; before we can ever solve it. Or dissolve it. Cultivating awareness - being aware - also offers much more than that. Awareness is a foundation for life. The more aware we become, the more life we can hold. And the more life we can hold the more alive we are.


Developing Self-Awareness Means Honing In-Sight


The inner journey to developing your self awareness can take on many forms.  Whether it be through mind-body activities or pure introspection - there are various pathways one can follow. Whatever the chosen means, path or method promoting self-awareness boils down to one thing at the end of the day.

Sharpening INSIGHT.

Distilling In-Sight. 

Enhancing awareness - becoming more self-aware - means sharpening our inner-vision. Rediscovering (in some cases) and clarifying (in other cases) this all seeing inner 'eye'.

The more in-sight-full - we become; the more our internal eyes open. And the more these eyes open; the more in-sight-full we are. We come to internalise - to open our internal eyes.

Before we know it, clarity and insight become powerful companions on the upward evolutionary spiral we find ourselves on. True inner self is no longer rumored, but experienced and lived. Authentic self shows up in our lives in ways we have never anticipated before. A proactive life increasingly unfolds.

So how to enter this timeless evolutionary spiral where developing self awareness perpetuates and grows? How to instill this clarity? How to distill this in-sight?

We can start by recognising that we can't even begin, while distractions are still in hold of our internal reigns.


Be Here - To Be Clear

"Life isn't lost by dying. Life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

~Stephen Vincent Benet


Developing self awareness is to a large extent a matter of developing mindfulness or increasing our capacity to be mindful. Being mindful isn't about moving, talking or thinking slowly.

It's about no longer getting carried away by distractions. Presence is your natural result.

To be Here. To Be Clear...

We must stop giving our attention away to distraction.

Simple. 

Yet easier said than done! One may say.

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Developing Self Awareness Is to Attend - Not Pretend


“One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness; not to be mere rushing on.”

~D.H. Lawrence


The mind is always thinking about something.

If it isn't thinking about today, it is thinking about yesterday or tomorrow. If it isn't thinking about us, it is thinking about others or about what others are thinking about us.

If we aren't thinking about ourselves or others we might be thinking about world affairs, the latest nutritional, social or scientific theory or at least one million other potential things.

The possibilities and combinations of things to think about are endless. We are often unaware of what happens to us while we are so busy thinking. We don't realize we're pre-tending; and no longer attending.

Don't get me wrong - thought most certainly has it's place. Yet the true nature of thought often escapes our awareness. Upon close examination we come to realize the truth - the entire picture of what we call thought. And what do we find?

That most of what we call thinking - is a process of pre-tending.

NOT attending.

So what do we do?


Introspect to Detect


Introspection reveals much of our thinking as an anticipatory process.

Thought tries to anticipate, to assess, to forecast, to solve. As such, it's never attending presence - but rather, pre-tending it! Caught by thought - attention is no longer available - arrested.

Before we know it...

We're no longer here. We're no longer clear. Self-awareness dims, and dulls - falling by the wayside.

Nothing at all wrong with this anticipatory nature of thought, mind you! This kind of thinking most certainly has its place. In fact, we wouldn't be considered fully human without it.

It's when interfering with our ability to remain aware - that we do well to pause. Stepping back into presence, only apparently lost.  

Developing self awareness, we stop emphasising the pre-tense of thought, over now.

But...

HOW?

The pre-tense of mind wants to know.

But its not in the how - but now - where awareness wants to flow.

As an inspirational poem about awareness is about to spontaneously show...


An Inspired Ode for Awareness - To Enjoy!


It isn't of time - not for the mind to employ!

Awareness is never a story to compose. It isn't a process to suppose.

If you wait for then or when; you miss it.

Don't pre-tend.

Self-awareness, in-sight.

And clarity have never gone.

It's not something to get back.

It's most certainly not anything you lack.

But it's also not something noisy or loud.

It's not a word, a thought, a sound.

But introspective presence, profound.

Developing self awareness is to step out-of-the-mind.

Out of pre-tense of thought;

Now - and presence - you find.



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