Being Self-Aware Makes You More Aware of the World
This is the key to gaining the control available to you in your life.
How did we get here? When did kindness, compassion, and empathy become elements of weakness and other negatives to so many people?
One of the biggest ironies of this idea is that most who are unkind, uncompassionate, and unempathetic demand to have kindness, compassion, and empathy given to them. They are so desperate for recognition and positive vibes related to it that they are deeply, deeply offended when they don’t get it.
Seriously, when did basic human decency take a back seat to greed, selfishness, and narcissism? I could point some fingers, make some educated guesses, and assign blame. But that serves nobody and nothing.
The biggest issue here, to me, is that we as a society have lost sight of the importance of being self-aware. And by self-aware, I mean aware of our inner mindset/headspace/psyche self. But rather than focus on this, rather than do something to increase overall awareness of this, we’re directed to look to external, quick-fix solutions.
Yet somehow, being self-aware has been deemed by a select few to be wrong. Caring about others? Giving a shit about minorities and marginalized people? That woke-shit is undesirable.
Yet those who go to great lengths to denounce all things woke? They demand that they be treated with utter respect, kindness, compassion, and empathy. It would be funny if it weren’t so awful and damaging.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do for anyone who takes these negative positions. But what I can do is explore my own self-awareness.
Only you can know you
The only person in your head, heart, and soul, is you. Only you can know yourself.
You alone have your memories, beliefs, values, and habits inside your subconscious mind. Only you can access your subconscious. Yes, some people can help you access it, like a good therapist. But they can’t access your subconscious mind. Only you can.
Likewise, you alone can be in your head, heart, and soul, here and now. You’re the only one who can genuinely know what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, what your intentions are, if your approach is positive or negative, and what you’re doing. You, and only you, are in there.
That’s what being self-aware is. It’s recognizing and acknowledging that only you are able to access your subconscious and conscious mind. Nobody else can.
Yet lots of people think they need someone or something to help them get in there. But there’s nothing and nobody who can get into you, your mindset/headspace/psyche self, other than you. You’re the only one who can get to know your beliefs, values, habits, and everything else that resides in your subconscious.
When you don’t know yourself, when you don’t actively practice being self-aware, you create artificial limitations. Since all the control you have is over your inner self, as in your thoughts, feelings, intentions, approach, and actions, being self-aware is key to taking control.
From being self-aware, you can now be more aware of the world.
Being self-aware and more aware of the world
You can read the news, scroll through social media, watch videos, and get some idea about the world. Yet that idea is going to be vague when you don’t know yourself.
Being self-aware helps you be more aware overall. How? By being self-aware, you gain control of the limited elements of life you can. Namely, your thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitude, approach, and the like. Since they belong to you and only you, you alone can and do control them. But to take that control, you must be self-aware.
When you’re self-aware, you gain clarity. That clarity then extends outwards. You no longer just see and read things; you develop a deeper understanding of them. That’s because being self-aware opens you to a broader, more holistic perspective of life, the universe, and everything.
Being aware of yourself opens you to deeper understanding. That self-knowledge opens you to seeing more. Why? Because looking inside and being self-aware makes you more aware overall.
Like any muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets. The muscle of self-awareness expands overall awareness because all awareness you have starts with your self. From there, you become more open to greater understanding beyond the surface of the world around you.
When you are more self-aware, it makes you more open. That openness is noticed by people you encounter, and turns you into a beacon of light and hope in a world increasingly dominated by utterly artificial darkness and fear.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather live in a world with positivity, abundance, and kindness than one of negativity, scarcity, and cruelty. Being self-aware shows you that positivity, abundance, and kindness are not just desirable but not so lacking or limited as some would have you believe.
Being self-aware to make you more aware of the world isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness (mindfulness) of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that being self-aware opens you to not just knowing yourself, but a greater depth of understanding overall, you become increasingly capable and able to see more around you with greater clarity. Knowing that it’s not selfish to be self-aware, you can employ this first to take control of the things about yourself that are yours to control, then use that greater depth of understanding to see the world around you more clearly.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can, in turn, empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself opens the way for a positive approach and attitude via your actions. This can lead to realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself, here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you and empower them as well. That is an amazing conduit to help reason to overcome fear in the collective consciousness.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the six-hundred twenty-third (623) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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