Being Aware of Being Aware: The Essence of Meditation, Volume 1

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The findings show that the ability to practice introspection varies and has a connection to anatomy. Being Aware of Being Aware explores our primary, most intimate and familiar experience: the knowing of our own being, or awareness’s knowing of itself in us. However, awareness, or the experience of simply ‘being aware’, has no observable qualities and is, therefore, usually overlooked or ignored. The returning of awareness to itself – being aware of being aware – is the essence of meditation and prayer, and the direct path to lasting peace and happiness. To truly help someone, it’s essential to see things from their perspective, and that requires being self-aware enough to put our thoughts and feelings aside sometimes. In addition, you can also read our top selection of self-awareness books to increase your reflection.

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Rochat, P. Five levels of self-awareness as they unfold early in life. Consciousness and Cognition. 2003;12(4):717-31. doi:10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00081-3 As noted earlier, self-awareness improves our communication, confidence, and job performance (Sutton et al., 2015). A better understanding of the underpinnings of conscious intentionality on habit formation is important to furthering the science and the neurological implications of the consciousness of change creation. Perhaps taking yourself out for a walk or, if that’s not possible, taking a few moments to breathe and collect your thoughts. This can prevent you from making a knee-jerk reaction that may only add to your stress levels (and those of your colleagues). Knowing what helps to reduce your stress is key here too. Having self-awareness means taking care of yourself and resting so you don’t burn out. 2. You can manage your time betterThe next time an opportunity comes her way, she thinks she doesn’t want to do it and initially decides to turn it down. Later, with the help of some self-awareness techniques, Bridget realizes that she is only telling herself she doesn’t want to do it because of her fear that she won’t be good enough. This is more likely to happen if we’re focused more on the standards than on ourselves; if we fail when we are focused on the standards more than our performance, we are more likely to blame the standards and alter them to fit our performance (Dana et al., 1997). This is where the self-awareness theory comes in, offering some potential answers to questions like these. Using these standards is a major component of practicing self-control, as we evaluate and determine whether we are making the right choices to achieve our goals. Some research (Froming, 1982) looked at the differences between two delineated forms of self-awareness manipulations. Using a mirror will help an individual to be self-aware of the internal presence of the self. An audience helps an individual to become self-aware of the public representation of the self. The two differ in that there are societal expectations that render the self separate.

Meditation: Being Aware of Being Aware is the Highest Meditation: Being Aware of Being Aware is the Highest

It has been widely discussed and researched with the intention of better understanding the importance of self-reflection in higher grade attainment. Blind Spots Sutton, A. (2016). Measuring the effects of self-awareness: Construction of the Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 12, 645–658. Although it may sound like merely shifting the blame to standards and, therefore, letting yourself off the hook for a real discrepancy, there are many situations in which the standards are overly strict. Therapists’ offices are filled with people who hold themselves to impossibly high standards, effectively giving themselves no chance of success when comparing themselves to their internal standards.Becoming more aware of the present moment can help us enjoy the world around us more, and understand ourselves better. When we meditate or practice mindfulness, we are paying attention to the things that can often get ignored in our busy day-to-day: the present moment and our own internal experience. Those who get to know their thought processes and patterns are more able to adapt and improve them, both by simply being aware of their processes and patterns and by giving themselves a mechanism for practicing and improving. That is, only gradually, in most cases, will it become clear that meditation is what we are, not what we do, and that the separate self or finite mind is what we do, not what we are. Until this is recognised, meditation will seem to require an effort, and if this is the case, and for as long as it seems to be so, we should make the effort. In time it will become clear that we cannot make an effort to be or know our self – we can only make an effort to be or know something apparently other than our self – and at that point our effort will come spontaneously to an end.” a mind that is accustomed to repeatedly dissolving in its source or essence becomes progressively saturated with its inherent peace. When such a mind rises again from the ocean of awareness, its activity makes that peace available to humanity.

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Mindfulness also allows us to become more aware of the stream of thoughts and feelings that we experience, and to see how we can become entangled in that stream in ways that are not helpful. Tewes, C. (2018). The phenomenology of habits: Integrating first-person and neuropsychological studies of memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. Even as we go about our daily lives, we can find new ways of waking up to the world around us. We can notice the sensations of things, the food we eat, the air moving past the body as we walk. All this may sound very small, but it has huge power to interrupt the ‘autopilot’ mode we often engage day to day, and to give us new perspectives on life. When we engage in self-evaluation, we can give some thought to whether we are thinking and feeling and acting as we “should” or following our standards and values. This is referred to as comparing against our standards of correctness. We do this daily, using these standards as a way to judge the rightness of our thoughts and behaviors.The awareness you are, the finished kingdom, the completely and utterly fulfilled you that you are, means the actual aliveness, or consciousness, or perception, or observing-ness, or cognizant-ness, or alertness-ness that you and that which you are universally aware of, is. Let us say that your room is pitch dark. No light at all. You get a flashlight, switch it on, and instantly light shines forth. NEXT, the light "sees" (shines ON) an object in your room -- a table, a chair, a painting, a door. Sutton A. Measuring the effects of self-awareness: Construction of the self-awareness outcomes questionnaire. Eur J Psychol. 2016;12(4):645-658. doi:10.5964/ejop.v12i4.1178 Individuals can fulfill their needs simultaneously by activating social identities associated with distinct groups, resulting in greater levels of wellbeing (Mengers, 2014). Some people call this awareness “ mindfulness,” and you can take steps to develop it in your own life. Mindfulness, sometimes also called “present-centredness,” can help us enjoy the world more and understand ourselves better.

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Brewer, M. B. (1991). The social self: On being the same and different at the same time. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17(5), 475-482. From the perspective of the mind, this non-practice of abiding or resting in the experience of being aware or awareness itself seems to be a blank or dull state. However, in time, awareness’s innate qualities of imperturbable peace and causeless joy emerge, in most cases gradually.” Pete Cormier, Ph.D. is the founder and executive director of The Awareness Project, Inc. a nonprofit that seeks to demystify, promote and increase accessibility of mindfulness practices through collaborations and art-making. Find out more at www.theawareness.org.That is, only gradually, in most cases, will it become clear that meditation is what we are, not what we do, and that the separate self or finite mind is what we do, not what we are.” We "here" are not aware of a thing "out there," with our awareness detecting it by stretching from where we are to where it is. Awareness Itself is all. Awareness Itself is infinity and omnipresence. There is no "other." Awareness Itself is the I that is all of all, all in all, and all as all. Internal self-awareness is about how well we see ourselves and our strengths, weaknesses, values, etc., while external self-awareness is understanding how others view us with those same factors (Eurich, 2018). Good managers and leaders need both to perform well in their roles. Make sure you and your partner are both getting some quality “me” time to think about what you want, what you need, and what your goals are. This will help you keep yourself from merging too much into your partner and maintaining your independence and stability. One possible advantage of practicing introspection is the reduction of anxieties. Becoming aware of our thoughts and actions in relation to our emotional response to the world around us enables our brain to create accurate thought.