"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."-C.G. Jung
Self Awareness is having a clear perception of our personality, strengths, weaknesses, thoughts and emotions. It is too often that I hear the saying "If you can't love yourself, then how can you love someone else". Sometimes it is important for us to take a step back from things around us and re-evaluate our own selves just to reflect on life and before decisions are made.Instead of finding faults or excuses for everything it is important that we know the role that we've played in this matter and try to improve it. Most of my blogs has been about personal relationships and friendships, things that I've experienced in the past and to a certain extent caused me some type of hurt. It is only right that I close out my blog entries with this blog topic on self-awareness. Often, I find it hard to take the blame for things and most of the time have an excuse as to why things went wrong in a friendship or in a relationship. Throughout all these experiences I've realized that it is not always the other person's fault, instead of blaming others because I don't want to let my pride down and take responsibility for what has happened . Having Self Awareness allows us to understand other people, how they perceive us, our attitudes and responses in the moment. As I sit back and evaluate the things I've been through with relationships, friendships and more, I've come to the conclusion that I just don't have enough self awareness. Not having enough self-awareness makes use vulnerable to certain things, people and situations. It makes it easy for us to mess up and sometimes blame others or simply take the blame from other because we aren't aware of our own selves.
As I now develop more self awareness I'm now able to make changes my thoughts and interpretations made in my mind. Simply changing the way how we think sometimes allows us to change our emotions and become better people and make understand people easier. In most of my friendships that ended things were done and said that would've been avoided. Like previous stated in the first blog about my best friend, our friendship ended bad and most of it was my fault. Well all of it was kind of my fault, I'm so in tact with my emotions too often I let it over shadow the decisions I make without really thinking about what I'm doing or saying at the time. I've taken a step back from all of my friends and is currently single and working on myself. It is beneficial when we can see our faults and make attempts in trying to fix them. Self awareness is simply the first step in creating what we want to do as people. Where we focus our attention, emotions, reactions and most importantly personality. I've come to the conclusion that until we (including myself) are aware in the moments of the controls to our thoughts, emotions, words, and behavior, it will be difficult in making changes in the direction of our life.
So yes people! We must learn how to be more self aware knowing where we stand as individuals in order to progress with any relationship or friendship that we set out to explore.
As I now develop more self awareness I'm now able to make changes my thoughts and interpretations made in my mind. Simply changing the way how we think sometimes allows us to change our emotions and become better people and make understand people easier. In most of my friendships that ended things were done and said that would've been avoided. Like previous stated in the first blog about my best friend, our friendship ended bad and most of it was my fault. Well all of it was kind of my fault, I'm so in tact with my emotions too often I let it over shadow the decisions I make without really thinking about what I'm doing or saying at the time. I've taken a step back from all of my friends and is currently single and working on myself. It is beneficial when we can see our faults and make attempts in trying to fix them. Self awareness is simply the first step in creating what we want to do as people. Where we focus our attention, emotions, reactions and most importantly personality. I've come to the conclusion that until we (including myself) are aware in the moments of the controls to our thoughts, emotions, words, and behavior, it will be difficult in making changes in the direction of our life.
So yes people! We must learn how to be more self aware knowing where we stand as individuals in order to progress with any relationship or friendship that we set out to explore.
I feel this is a very good message for your audience, and you explain how self-awareness (or a lack thereof) influences an individual's life and relationships. I also like how you begin this post with a quote from Jung, and then explore the topic of the quote in a way that is relevant to your blog as a whole. It could be more specific in certain points, but otherwise, this was a very good post.
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