Self-Awareness Saturday | Developing Awareness (Part 1) | Self-Analysis

Self-Awareness Saturday | Developing Awareness (Part 1) | Self-Analysis

Now that I have you guys at least familiar with the term and hopefully intrigued to learn more, over the next several weeks I’ll be dropping helpful steps towards developing your self-awareness and strengthening it.

I found this quote and I think it’s a wonderful summary of what we will be going over today – Self-analysis.

"We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, which can bring us happiness in spite of trials, which can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.” - Richard Bach

“Once you become aware, that’s it; excuses are no longer viable. When you deny the facts about yourself, you start to live and breathe self-defeat.”

That being said, let’s go over the first step: self-analysis

Self-analysis consists of understanding one's own preconscious and insensible materials like ideas, memories, thoughts, and emotions. Through self-analysis you can discover your weakness and become capable of seeing the places and positions you have to adjust. Everyone has false opinions and personal faults committed by none other than them themselves but because of your self-analysis you can learn to avoid such problems and deal with them if they should still occur.

Doing a self-analysis produces an extraordinary level of control over yourself that you can then use to improve yourself. This practice is super important so take it seriously. Write down your strengths and weaknesses so you can become aware of them. Truly dig deep and really think of all the possible things you can write down. You must analyze both sides of this and decide what things you like about yourself and what things you wish to change. Your strengths will help you convert your weaknesses. Don’t feel bad if your weaknesses outnumber your strengths; my weaknesses outweighed my strengths too. Mostly this is due from lack of self-confidence which comes from not having self-awareness. Because of this you aren’t able to really see all the great strengths you don’t even realize you already have.

Self-analysis is a stepping stone to becoming more self-aware. Use this to learn your strengths, weaknesses, bad habits, good habits, patterns, etc.

Overtime and with consistent practice, you will learn to become aware of everything and you will see your reality for exactly what it is. Without this step, it may be hard to figure out where to start.

*Stay tuned for my next "Self-Awareness Saturday" at 7:30pm EST over at Facebook.com/RachelFaulFitness for part 2