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| Self Knowledge |
In psychology self-knowledge is a term used to describe the information that an individual draws upon when finding an answer to the question “What am I like?”.
While seeking to develop the answer to this question, self-knowledge requires ongoing self-awareness and self-consciousness (which is not to be confused with consciousness.) Young infants and even animals will display some of the traits self-awareness and agency/contingency, yet not be considered as also having self-consciousness. At some greater level of cognition, however, a self-conscious component emerges in addition to an increased self-awareness component, and then it becomes possible to ask “What am I like?”, and to answer with self-knowledge.
The affective and executive selves are also known as the felt and active selves respectively, as they refer to the emotional and behavioral components of the self-concept. Self-knowledge is linked to the cognitive self in that its motives guide our search to gain greater clarity and assurance that our own self-concept is an accurate representation of our true self, for this reason the cognitive self is also referred to as the known self. The cognitive self is made up of everything we know (or think we know about ourselves). This implies physiological properties such as hair color, race, and height etc., and psychological properties like beliefs, values, and dislikes to name but a few.
“Self-knowledge” commonly refers to knowledge of one’s particular mineral states, including one’s beliefs, beliefs, desires, and sensations. It is also sometimes used to refer to knowledge about a persisting self—its onto logical nature, identity conditions, or character traits. At least since Descartes, most philosophers have believed that self-knowledge is importantly different from knowledge of the world external to oneself, including other’s thoughts. But there is little agreement about what precisely disagreement, philosophers have endorsed competing accounts of how we acquire self-knowledge. These accounts of how we acquire self-knowledge.
Self-knowledge will teach you what you are doing that is holding you back –when you find negativity you must work to change your attitude because negativity is a disease that blocks your progress in life. When Christ expounded the theory of forgiveness he was speaking about a model for life. If you cannot forgive you become bitter; bitterness breeds negativity and negativity is the language of failure.
Self-knowledge is the key to high achievement.
Self-awareness
How our thoughts and words impact how we feel?
How our emotions unconsciously drive our behaviors?
How does hidden core beliefs affect our happiness?
Without conscious awareness of these dynamics we have very little chance of changing them. With awareness we have the opportunity to determine the amount of happiness and joy in our life. As we become self aware we have the opportunity to make choices of instead of just react from habit of negative emotions.Various emotional states are intensified by self-awareness, and People sometimes try to reduce or escape it through things like television, video games, drugs, etc. However, some people may seek to increase their self-awareness through these outlets. People are more likely to align their behavior with their standards when made self-aware. People will be negatively affected if they don't live up to their personal standards.
Self-awareness theory states that when we focus our attention on ourselves, we evaluate and compare our current behavior to our internal standards and values. We become self-conscious as objective evaluators of ourselves. However self-awareness is not to be confused with self-consciousness. Various environmental cues and situations induce awareness of the self, such as mirrors, an audience, or being videotaped or recorded. These cues also increase accuracy of personal memory. Self-awareness develops systematically from birth through the life span and it is a major factor for the development of general inferential process. Moreover, a series of recent studies showed that self-awareness about cognitive processes participates in general intelligence on a par with processing efficiency functions, such an working memory, processing speed, and reasoning.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Are you aware of the gifts in your life, or do you overlook and take for granted what you have? When you learn to give your mind an new interpretation you begin to see an entirely different world. With this practice we become aware of our stories, point of view, emotions, and our power to create.
--Gratitude Power and Emotion.
Some call it Personal Power, some call it Will Power. We have an extraordinary amount of it at our disposal. Unfortunately without self awareness we unknowingly expend it on self sabotaging agreements. It brings your awareness to every word that comes out of your mouth, and every thought in the mind. If you expand on it you learn to see the agreements others live by as well.
-Recovering Personal will power
Mastering where we focus our attention and how we focus it is the key to you freedom. Most people try to make change their life by changing their stories, beliefs, and emotions. This is like trying to steer your life by the tail. Before we can expect to consciously direct our life, we need to be able to consciously direct our attention.
-The Attention-Self Awareness begins with the Attention
The world teaches us that we are more valuable of we have strong opinions. But it doesn't teach us the emotional price that we have to pay. This is a self awareness exercise you practice when communicating with other people. It can reduce conflict and foster respect in your relationships. And one of the key point is in detaching from the mind is to change our point of view. This is not something that we can think our way into doing.
-Notice the power of every word you think and speak.
Words are powerful symbols. There are certain words that our inner judge and victim use to establish and maintain its place of power n our mind. You should always identify these words, begin to eliminate them from your thinking and speaking language.
-Breaking down judgments that separate us from joyful emotions.
It's the beginning study of your emotions. Your emotions determine what kind of day you are having. We determine the quality of our relationships and life by the emotions we are feeling. Our emotions are powerful forces in our lives. Our fears will keep us from doing the things we love, and our passion and love will inspire us to great leaps of faith. Yet, we have been trained from very young to repress our emotions.
-What Your Parents and teachers never taught you about emotion.
After we have identified the cast of characters that run around in our mind and personality we go further. These characters are the key players in creating your emotional drama reactions and sabotaging behavior patterns.
Learn how to see the core beliefs and embedded agreements behind the thoughts and words you use. Most of our beliefs are hidden behind the actual words we use. If we are to become impeccable with expression we need to be consciously aware of what we communicating.
-Deepening awareness and observation of our self & Power of our word revealed.
How often do we fear how someone will react to us? How often do we alter our behavior because we don't want to upset someone? When we have a history of reacting to others we live our lives for others and not for our self. Knowing this is not enough. How to see behind the structure of this belief and change it is the valuable part of this session.
-The easy way to let go of guilt.
Our forgiving others doesn't redeem them, but it does free us from regret, judgments, resentments, and anger. Cutting though all the excuses and beliefs about not forgiving is the key to make this easy. What is more important is forgiving our self.
-To forgive another is the most generous thing you can do for yourself.
