SELF –AWARENESS
AND VALUED
DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
• Many of us have a pretty low self-awareness. With busy
schedules, it is difficult to find time to think about our strength
and weaknesses, drives and personalities, and habits and values.
Besides, many of us are not inclined to spend much time on self-
reflection. Even when feedback about ourselves is presented to
us, we are not always open to it, because honest feedback is not
always flattering.
• Self-awareness opens doors to spiritual and personal growth. We
have all the answer to the questions about our lives and what we
have to do is to learn how we can have access to our wisdom.
• It begins with self-awareness by paying attention to our senses,
thoughts, feelings, and intuition. We should see thinking and how
it creates our reality then we can discover our deepest essence.
Introduction
• Increasing our level of self-awareness therefore, empowers us
to make different choices. Not that it will automatically do
things differently, over time as we build these levels of
catching ourselves doing wrong things, we will have the
choices to alter our behavior, eventually before the next
decision making comes.
• So in order to assess what you do, you must first become
aware of where you place your inner intention what you are
feeling and thinking about. The more frequently you do this,
the more natural and habitual it will become, and the more
you will give yourself the chance to truly change you
behavior.
SELF AWARENESS
• According to Goleman, self-awareness is perhaps the most important
emotional competence, it is knowing of one’s internal states,
preferences, resources and intuitions. Another psychotherapy put it as
“bringing to the conscious mind our understanding of the compulsion
that pushes us around.
• Marilyn Vas Savant simply calls it “the art of waking up”. Or the
realizing what you really are and why you do; in the way you do them
The following, illustrates the continuing search of man for himself:
(Palispis) assess how you picture out yourself in this concern
WHO AM I?
Who am I? Who am I?
My clothes ? My look? My mood?
Am I just a thing?
No!
Am I my parent? Brothers? Friends?
Am I they?
I think I am different from them
Just who I am? I am my name?
My face? My bones? My breath?
My feelings? My thoughts? And memory
Each of them is part of me,
But not me
Who am I really? What is the truth
I’m alive, enthusiastic, free and unique
Above all, like God, I live.
All this I am- my innermost being
Who am I? Who am I?
KEY AREAS OF SELF-AWARENESS
• Human beings are complex and diverse. To become self-
aware. We should develop an understanding of ourselves in
many areas which includes the following.
• Personality- an understanding of our personality can help us
find situations in which we will thrive/survive, and help us
avoid situations in which we will experience too much stress.
• Values- values are qualities that we can cherish as reference
for our action and behaviors in particular situations
KEY AREAS OF SELF-AWARENESS
• Habits- these are behaviors that we repeat routinely and often do
automatically although we would like to use them to help us interact
effectively with and manage others we can probably identify at least one
of our habits that decreases our effectiveness
• Needs- (connect Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and other psychologist’
psychological needs) needs cause motivations, and when needs aren’t
satisfied, they can cause frustration conflict and stress. One of the
advantages of knowing which need exert the strongest influence in our
own behavior is the ability to understand how they effect our
interpersonal relationship.
• Emotions- understanding your own feelings, what cause them, and how
they make an impact to your thoughts and actions are indications of
emotional self-awareness.
HOW SELF_AWARENESS MAKE AN
INDIVIDUAL MORE EFFECTIVE?
• Self-awareness helps individual gaps that promote skills
development. Identifying these gaps, the following can be
improved and enhanced.
• Skills development
• Knowing one’s strength and weaknesses
• Developing intuitive decision-making skills
• Stress management our coping with stress effectively
• Self-motivation
• Leadership
