Self-Awareness

Good Evening Beloved!

Self-awareness is one of those terms that seems easy to define, and in a sense, I suppose it is. But, what does it mean to be self-aware?

Self-awareness can easily be defined as awareness of self, and if you look it up on the internet you’ll probably get something like this:

Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don’t align with your internal standards.

The first thing you should know about self-awareness is that it’s the beginning-it’s the start of a path that’s going to take you home. You’re going to laugh when you read this, but the five senses are deceiving; touch, smell, taste, hearing, and seeing are the senses we’re born with, and they help us navigate through this world and our lives.

Through our senses we acquire what looks good, women, clothing, jewelry, homes, cars, etc. We surround ourselves with good smells and perfumes, we go to the food store and shop for food that’s pleasing to our taste buds, and we buy the music we like to listen to.

Hey, there’s no accounting for taste, to each his own, and everyone spends their money differently. What we acquire through our senses shows the world a little something about us, but what do we truly know about ourselves?

There are levels to self-awareness, we could all achieve a very high level of self-awareness, but not all of us do because at some point, most people cut the “self” off when it comes to earning a paycheck.

What do I mean? Did you ever hear someone say, “Don’t pay attention to how you feel. You’ll feel better once you get out there and get going.”

That’s good advice, and I’ve taken it myself many times, but if you’re truly not happy with what you’re doing, those feelings are going to manifest. The universe has a funny way of putting us on the path we belong on.

In terms of self-awareness, intuition and feelings-the two things no one else sees and the two things that are manifested from within us, are the keys to a high level of self-awareness. This comes down to you, and how far you want to take this path. You can take it all the way home until you reach enlightenment and secure a connection to your higher-self, or you can turn back and continue to go along to get along.

So, self-awareness doesn’t have too much to with your senses, it has to do with how conscious you are of your intuition and inner emotional response to what you’re going through on a daily basis.

Your intuition and inner emotions are guiding you, and the universe will drop subtle hints and reveal clues that will only make sense to you. So, you can’t ask no one else for help on this path. This is for the individual who’s attempting to find his or her way back to universal or god consciousness. You have the answers.

In addition to the definition provided above, something should be said about the environment. The first three houses in the astrological chart are all about the self and self-awareness, but as we progress to houses four, five, and six, we deal with the integration of self and the environment. Houses seven, eight, and nine are when we meet the other, and we get ourselves mirrored back to us. We learn about ourselves through our relationships with other people and groups.

Self-awareness is more than our ability to focus on our thoughts, actions, and emotions. To be self-aware means that your not only aware of intuition and inner emotions, but that you’ve also committed to listening and allowing them to guide your way forward.

I made a comment earlier about money and the job or work. We’ve been seeing a whole generation of people who are now retiring from work and feel completely lost.

That’s because they’ve ignored themselves and went to work for forty years to keep the money rolling in. That’s a tremendous sacrifice the head of a household usually makes, and they should be respected for that.

These individuals, for their entire lives, were defined by their job. The image of self they step into retirement with is one created entirely by their jobs, the money they made, and the promotions they earned. Without the job they feel like they lost a part of themselves.

It’s like the athlete whose career comes to an end and is no longer performing in front of 80,000 people. They’re lost without the stage, but the stage was never who they truly were.

In order for you to incorporate self-awareness into your job, it has to be a role that gives you the freedom to make decisions based on your intuition and how you feel, and let’s face it, there aren’t many roles like that out there. In business, money is the bottom line. If you’re intuition is telling you not to take one million dollars, you gone!

lol, but truthfully; there aren’t many roles like that out there because it’s not about playing a role or role playing.

It’s about the real authentic self.