Self-Mastery Tip: Enhance Your Awareness/Attention/”Mindfulness”
January 14th, 2010
Being more aware of what is happening within oneself, others and the surrounding environment can have a great impact on Self-Mastery. The more you know about what influences you and how it does so, the more influence you will gain over your own thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
There are many ways in which to enhance awareness, including the following:
- Noticing thoughts, feelings and behaviors that you appreciate and those that you do not. Sometimes self-awareness is blocked by a desire to “not have” certain experiences. You can enhance such awareness by simply noticing aspects of your self that you do not want to own or acknowledge.
- Journaling about your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. You might start with thoughts and feelings in relation to 1-2 of the most impactful experiences of the day or week and increase or decrease the frequency of journaling as you see fit.
- Participating in awareness-enhancing exercises. There are many experiences that help people becomes more aware of what is happening within them, with others and in their environment. Sign up for an interesting course, read a book by a credible author and/or talk with someone who helps you expand your awareness regularly.
NOTE TO THOSE USING THE MISSION FULFILLMENT SYSTEM: You can facilitate your awareness by adding a new Objective to your system by using the “Add New Item” link (for example, “Increase my awareness”). You can then develop a SMART Goal related to that new Objective by using the “Add Subitem” link to the far right of the new Objective (for example, “Notice when I am wanting to hide something about my experiences from myself and/or others”).
FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT ON THE MISSION FULFILLMENT SYSTEM: Click here to for more information and click here to sign up.
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