Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is the beginning of your journey to be your best self & it's extremely important for deep personal growth.  

🦋 Self-awareness is the ability to consciously know and understand your own:    •    Thoughts

    •    Emotions
    •    Behaviors
    •    Beliefs
    •    Triggers
    •    Patterns
    •    Desires and needs

It’s being able to “observe yourself” without judgment — almost like stepping outside your own mind and seeing how you’re showing up in the world, and why.

There are two types of self-awareness:
    1.    Internal self-awareness: Knowing yourself — your values, emotions, strengths, and weaknesses.
    2.    External self-awareness: Understanding how others perceive you and how your behavior impacts them.

🦋 Why Is Self-Awareness So Important for Becoming Our Best Selves?

Because you can’t grow what you don’t know. Self-awareness is the mirror that helps you:
    •    Recognize what’s holding you back (limiting beliefs, fear, insecurity)
    •    Break negative patterns (emotional reactivity, self-sabotage, people-pleasing)
    •    Make aligned decisions (choosing what fits your true self, not others’ expectations)
    •    Strengthen relationships (by being aware of how you come across and communicate)
    •    Manage your emotions with clarity, not suppression or overreaction
    •    Live intentionally, instead of on autopilot

Becoming your best self requires honesty, reflection, and a willingness to look at the parts of you that are both beautiful and uncomfortable. Self-awareness is the gateway to that.

✨ How to Improve Self-Awareness

Here are effective and accessible ways to build it:

1. Daily Journaling

Write honestly about your emotions, actions, and thoughts. Ask:
    •    What did I feel today, and why?
    •    What triggered me?
    •    Did I act in alignment with my values?

2. Practice Mindfulness

Pause and observe your thoughts like clouds passing. You don’t judge them — you just notice. This helps you respond, not react.

3. Ask for Honest Feedback

Trusted friends, mentors, or even therapists can reflect blind spots you don’t see.

4. Use “Why?” and “What?” Questions

Instead of “Why am I like this?” ask “What made me respond that way?”
“Why” often leads to shame or self-blame. “What” leads to insight and change.

5. Body Awareness

Notice where you feel stress, tension, or joy in your body. Your body tells the truth even when your mind avoids it.

6. Meditation or Breath work

Even a few minutes a day helps you tune in to your internal state and reset from the noise of the outside world.

7. Track Your Triggers

When something makes you overreact emotionally, write it down. Look for patterns.

🌺 Self-awareness is not about being perfect. It’s about being honest.
And that honesty opens the door to healing, authenticity, and aligned action — which is how you become your best self.