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What is Self-Awareness and Why Does it Matter?

Understanding Self-Awareness can bring new possibilities to your life

Self-awareness is a matter of understanding your feelings, and more importantly, why you feel those emotions.

When we become self-aware, we become fully aware of the challenges in our lives, and how we fit into them.

It is the process by which we begin to question the things we’ve always believed.

This is the window outside of your reality. It is the place where possibilities exist, independent of the limitations you hold to be real.

This is the moment where you begin to question the reality you’ve been living under. Use it to move forward, and start asking some very big questions.

This is inherently challenging since we base what we know on what we know. Unless we can find a way to break through, we will be forever stuck in an endless feedback loop.

Consider the following analogy:

Imagine a person has spent their entire life inside a room with no windows or doors. How do they get out of the room?

The first step is to realize that there IS an outside.

We begin to reach a point of self-awareness when we recognize that we might be lying to ourselves and that our self-deception doesn’t hold up.

Getting to this point may take many years.

We need to get there any way that we can. Perhaps it will be a moment of inspiration. Perhaps you will see someone else do something you didn’t think could be done. Something may cause you to challenge your perceptions of yourself.

This is the shift.

This is the moment where you begin to question the reality you’ve been living under. Use it to move forward, and start asking some very big questions.

This is an Atomic Essay from the April Ship 30 for 30 writing challenge