by SEG

Created on: May 24, 2008   Last Updated: January 17, 2011

Nothing is more imperative for the enhancement of our personal life than the development of our self-awareness; proficient self-awareness is the primary source of our effective intellectual and emotional life that has one essential result- quality.

“Self-awareness-… to understand the inner world of needs, motives, thoughts, mental states, emotions and bodily feelings…”                  ~ Nathaniel Branden (1997)

And the older we get the more extensive and substantial these flexible features of our consciousness become- we have wider vistas with more and more potentials, but to get more we need an increasingly efficient process of intelligent self-awareness.   

Just as engineers become increasingly efficient with a widening understanding of their professional field, we can become increasingly efficient with the widening fields of our personal life. 

Internally, we are a system of reciprocal processes of mind and body that define, understand, make decisions and then intelligently act to propel our experiences forward- around hazards and toward rewards, both external and internal.

And when our three fundamental centers- our body, emotions and intelligence- are all pulling together we think, feel and act efficiently as a whole person, and it is our pro-active self-awareness that effectively orchestrates this process.

Our processes of living are going to continue irrespective of our degrees of focused self-awareness- life happens anyway- but the higher the degrees of our self-awareness vis-à-vis the higher the quality of our life experiences; self-awareness is our built-in guidance system that keeps us on the solid roads of life and out of its swamps.

That’s what human awareness is all about to begin with; just look at how much effort we put into the ‘teamwork’ relationships of our social and employment responsibilities where we increasingly learn to effectively navigate that world without stumbling into obstacles and stepping on one another’s toes.  

And we all know what it feels like to ‘stumble around’ bumping into internal obstacles and stepping on our own toes- human growth is the appearance of new vistas and desires that have a propensity to leave our old desires- with their values , responses and actions- behind. 

But with this continuous process of ‘chrysalises’

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