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SELF-AWARENESS
The following is an experiment. You are with yourself every moment, and
yet most people don’t know some basic things about themselves. You know the
person who is ghastly unaware of their motives, fears, ‘hang-ups’ -- they
ooze this ‘issues’ from every pore, but they’re the only one in the room
not to notice it. If you don’t know what your strengths and struggles are,
growing and maturing into the person you want to be is quite difficult. Hence
this self-awareness experiment.
Read the first part of the following
sentences and then write what first comes to you as a completion of that
sentence. Try the experiment writing the first thing that comes into your mind,
and then if you want some more information about yourself, take each question
and give the answer some thought.
When finished, look back to see what
patterns run through your answers. Watch for anything surprising. You can give
it to a person who knows you well, and ask them for their feedback. You can put
it away and take it out again in 6 months or a year, running the experiment
again and noting any differences. I had one client who did this every year the
day after her birthday and kept them as a record of how she changed from year to
year.
You may also note which questions you had
difficulty with, which if any you left blank, and which had answers that came
right to you. All of this is great information about you. The hard thing about intimate
communication is ________________________________________________________ If I were not concerned about the listener’s response One of the ways I sometimes make it difficult for people to talk to me is My view of myself ________________________________________________________ My mother told me I was ________________________________________________________ One of the greatest things
about being me is ________________________________________________________ I’m beginning to suspect ________________________________________________________ I feel loved and appreciated
when ________________________________________________________ All my life ________________________________________________________ If I felt free to show my
excitement ________________________________________________________ I am beginning to feel ________________________________________________________ If I choose to look at myself
with my own eyes ________________________________________________________ I am a person who ________________________________________________________ I feel invisible when ________________________________________________________ I wish people understood ________________________________________________________ If I were willing to be
vulnerable ________________________________________________________ One of the things I wish I
better understood about me is ________________________________________________________ As I grow more comfortable
accepting my own feelings ________________________________________________________ If I allowed myself to enjoy
who I am ________________________________________________________ I am becoming aware ________________________________________________________ Ever since I was a child ________________________________________________________ My mom ________________________________________________________ Aloneness means ________________________________________________________ If I were willing to use my
own power ________________________________________________________ I try to sabotage ________________________________________________________ By keeping others uncertain as
to my feelings about them ________________________________________________________ My dad ________________________________________________________ One thing I’d like people to
know about me ________________________________________________________ My fear ________________________________________________________ If I were to communicate who I
am to someone else ________________________________________________________ One of the scary things ________________________________________________________ One of the ways I hurt myself ________________________________________________________ As I grow more independent
from my parents ________________________________________________________ A safe person ________________________________________________________ The sadness I have ________________________________________________________ My family thinks ________________________________________________________ I want other people to ________________________________________________________ It’s hard to admit that ________________________________________________________ Sometimes my mother speaks
through my voice when I ________________________________________________________ One of the things that
originally attracts me to others ________________________________________________________ My anger ________________________________________________________ One of the scary things about
feeling positive ________________________________________________________ Honesty is ________________________________________________________ One of the things I wish
others understood about my anger is ________________________________________________________ If the part of me that’s still a kid could speak ________________________________________________________ I still have feelings about ________________________________________________________ I push people away ________________________________________________________ If I could be certain that I
wouldn’t be condemned ________________________________________________________ A secret ________________________________________________________ My mother gave me the message
that love was ________________________________________________________ My greatest ________________________________________________________ My spirituality ________________________________________________________ My father told me I was ________________________________________________________ I’m amazed ________________________________________________________ Sometimes I hear my father’s
voice when ________________________________________________________ One of the ways I hide ________________________________________________________ Problems ________________________________________________________ I feel happy when ________________________________________________________ When I was angry as a child ________________________________________________________ Children ________________________________________________________ If I like who I am ________________________________________________________ My worst ________________________________________________________ My father gave me the message
that love was ________________________________________________________ Locked away inside me is ________________________________________________________ One of the greatest things
about myself ________________________________________________________ If any of what I’m saying is
true ________________________________________________________ I don’t talk about ________________________________________________________ If I allowed myself to
understand the things I’ve been saying here ________________________________________________________ As I look back over my answers ________________________________________________________ If I were to communicate all
this ________________________________________________________ This exercise has been ________________________________________________________
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