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The following exercises will help develop your Self Awareness skills by creating a safe space for you to learn how to be more responsible for your actions, free of guilt, fear, or resentment. They will also assist you in seeing what steps you need to take to eliminate negative beliefs and addictive behavior patterns from your life. Only through self effort can these beneficial changes occur.
As with all the Life Mastery Skills Exercises, it is highly recommended that you begin your lesson plan on self awareness by reading (or listening to) the introduction first before starting the exercises.
Introduction to Self Awareness Skills Exercises
What are Self Awareness Skills
In order to improve our capacity for self awareness, we must become aware of how we judge ourselves and how these judgments impact us and our growth. Self judgment shuts down self awareness.
The function of our mind to make judgments is neither good nor bad, it just is. Often we lack the understanding to be able to distinguish between the brain's physiological ability to judge, which is an important and valuable intelligence function, and our emotionally based repressive pattern of judgment. When we lack this discrimination, which we need to develop through self awareness, we turn our ability to judge against ourselves and others. This inner repressive judge, the evaluator, represents our images of our outer parents, society, school, religion, and authority. We internalize these images and react to them with fear, guilt, anger, resentment, and anxiety, which causes us to act out by either rebelling against the evaluator or submitting to it. Both reactions stifle our growth and our emotions.
As long as we use our internalized parents, and other authority figures in this way, we will either indulge in or repress our feelings in an attempt to please or rebel against them. This pattern keeps us caught in a never-ending cycle of suffering and frustration. The evaluator's job is to judge our behavior, either positively or negatively, for the purpose of controlling the behavior of our inner emotional child who is imbued with our instinctual energy. We also project this inner judge onto our partners and others.
By projecting our inner judge onto others, we become reactive towards others and feel victimized by them. This habit of blaming others for our predicament, projecting, makes real growth impossible. Because we feel we are the victim of circumstances and other people that are beyond our control, we feel helpless to change them.
When we are projecting, the evaluator, or inner parent judges our emotional inner child as wrong or bad, we feel guilty about who we are. We become defensive and deny our behavior and blame others for the situation we have created. Or the inner parent judges us as wonderful and we feel we are better than other people.
As we develop awareness, we sense the evaluator's judgment, whether positive or negative. We fight back against the evaluator, we allow our emotional inner child to be, and feel what it feels. As we gain understanding and clarity, we see our action, experience it as an error, correct it, forget it, and go on with life. When we do not use self awareness in this way, but instead use it as a way of repressing, praising, or blaming ourselves and others, we continue to alternate between guilt about who we are and resentment towards others for who they are.
Self Awareness Skills Exercises
We recommend you start with the free self awareness skills exercise first. Further lesson plans on self awareness are available in the Self Awareness Skills module, provided for those who wish to delve deeper into developing their self awareness skills. This module contains ten exercises for developing your self awareness as well as a complete Glossary of Terms. It can be purchased at the Life Mastery Skills Bookstore for $5.00.
For those of you who wish to purchase all six modules (Communication, Relationships, Abundance, Self Esteem, Empowerment and Self Awareness) the "Life Mastery Skills" book is also available and can be purchased for $19.00 at the Bookstore (a savings of $11.00). The "Life Mastery Skills" book contains exercises for developing the most essential aspects of emotional intelligence and was created specifically to help each of us break free from our past and live a life of fulfillment, filled with love, power and success.
The instructions and links for the free exercise, purchasing the Self Awareness module and the "Life Mastery Skills" book are also provided at the top right side of this page.
Life Mastery Skills Exercises
Self Awareness Exercise
Self Awareness Module
Life Mastery Skills Book
These exercises are viewed with Adobe Reader. If you do not have Adobe Reader you can download it here.
Kabba Anand, D.Ac.
Some of the exercises require writing, keeping a diary or drawing. For your convenience we are providing free downloadable journal paper.
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DISCLAIMER: Should you have any reason to believe that you are not in a mental or emotional condition to begin the exercises provided on this website, you should seek the advice of a mental health professional to assist you in this decision. Additionally, should you choose to begin any of the exercises provided on this website, you may find that some of the exercises may cause unpleasant or uncomfortable feelings. If you feel confused or overwhelmed by your reactions to this material, it is recommended that you find a mental health professional to assist you in your journey towards self awareness.