How do Self-Awareness and Applied Mindfulness Work Together?

Self-awareness and mindfulness are one

Mindfulness of your own headspace will help you be better aware of the outside world and how it impacts you.

Mindfulness is a matter of being aware of yourself. To put it simply, mindfulness is recognizing, acknowledging, and knowing what is inside your own head.

Mindfulness is self-awareness.  It is knowing what you are thinking, how you are feeling, what you are feeling, what actions you are taking, and the intentions behind them.

Recognize nobody else is in your head, heart, and soul – but you

The only person who can know what you are thinking and what and how you are feeling is YOU. There is nobody else inside of your head.

This is mindfulness. Awareness of your thoughts and feelings. But it’s not simply awareness, as in oh, hey that’s what’s on my mind or I am feeling how I am feeling. No, it’s also about your ability to recognize and acknowledge your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Once you have that recognition and acknowledgment, you become empowered to influence, control, alter, and change your life experience.

How do I express mindfulness?

The simplest and easiest way to recognize mindfulness is to ask yourself direct questions. 

We are constantly asking our friends, families, coworkers, even random strangers questions like these.  Yet it is infrequent of us to direct these questions inwards.  But asking these questions is applied mindfulness.

This week’s Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tool:

Ask yourself, preferably aloud, the following direct questions or questions like these:

·         What am I thinking?

·         What am I feeling? 

·         How am I feeling? 

·         Where is my mind? 

·         What am I thinking about? 

·         What am I focused on? 

·         What is my intention at this moment?


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