Self-Awareness and Self-Love

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Self-Awareness and Self-Love

• Rachel Navaro and Julia Mulligan
• TAMS

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Self-Awareness

• Is
• The ability to be consciously in touch with what
  is going on inside of your body on a
  physical/emotional level
• Sometimes referred to as body awareness, inner
  guidance or intuition
• A benefit of having boundaries and being grounded
• Is not
• Your likes, dislikes or personality

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Self-Love

• Is
• The ability to love oneself without judgement
• Humble
• Unconditional
• Always uplifting
• A verb
• Is not
• Arrogance or conceit
• Masturbation
• Punishment
• Something you have to earn
• A noun

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Whats so important about self-love?

• It feels good to you and others
• It effects your life on all levels
• It is essential for loving others in a healthy,
  unconditional manner
• It increases confidence and awareness of personal
  skills and abilities
• It helps you make good decisions

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How can we begin to love ourselves?

• Through increasing self-awareness
• Boundaries (physical)
• Grounding
• Through increasing thought-awareness
• By choosing to think positive, affirming thoughts
• Through the creation of new core beliefs

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Self-Awareness Boundaries

• Boundaries and grounding are essential for a
  healthy relationship with oneself and others
• Your boundaries define physical limits. They make
  clear the separation between oneself and others
• Boundaries are intelligent, like a cell wall
  (structural support, protection, and filter) they
  let in what is good for you and keep out what
  is not
• Do activity

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Personal Space Invaders
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Self-Awareness Grounding

• Boundaries and grounding are essential for a
  healthy relationship with oneself and others
• Your grounding cord connects you to the earth
• Grounding keeps you balanced between the energies
  of inspiration and imagination and the stable
  earth energies of intuition and instinct

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Boundaries and Grounding
Boundary
Inspiration
Intuition
Instinct
Grounding Cord
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Thoughts have power

• There is no such thing as a useless thought. Each
  thought you have has power
• We have between 50,000 and 75,000 thoughts each
  day
• 90-95 of our thoughts are repeated each day
• We are largely unaware of our thoughts
• Most repetitive thoughts are negative (fear,
  judgement, depressing, rejection, scarcity and
  resentful)
• Thoughts do not just stay in your head, they
  extend out of you and effect others (saliva
  experiment)

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Thought Awareness

• Start paying attention to the thoughts in your
  mind. This makes the unconscious stream of
  negative thoughts conscious, and also allows you
  to more easily choose positive thoughts
• Tool Place a check on a notecard every time you
  notice a negative thought. Do not judge the
  thought for yourself, just notice it.
• Tool Notice when your inner peace has been
  disturbed. Any disturbance can usually be traced
  back to a negative thought. Once you identify it,
  you can chose a different thought.

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Making affirmations work

• Remember that you are creating something new and
  fresh, not trying to redo or change what already
  exists. Every moment is an opportunity to create
  what you desire.
• Try to believe that your affirmation can be true.
  Temporarily suspend your doubts and judgements
• Phrase them in the present tense, as if you
  already have it
• Phrase them in the most positive way you can.
  State what you want rather than what you dont
  want.
• M M activity

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Common core beliefs that can be a problem (check
any that you believe)

• Im not OK, Theres something wrong with me, Im
  unworthy/undeserving
• Ive made mistakes in my life and deserve to
  suffer for them
• Its bad to think highly of yourself. Youll
  become obnoxious and brag about yourself
• Love comes from others, not self
• I will be happy and love myself when, I get all
  As, I have the right partner, get the right job,
  etc.
• People, including me, are basically bad, selfish,
  cruel, stupid, untrustworthy, sinful or foolish
• The world is an unsafe place
• Theres not enough ________ (love, money,
  happiness, food, etc.)to go around
• Life is pain, suffering, and hard work, its not
  meant to be fun
• I dont have control over what happens to me, Im
  powerless to do anything about my life or the
  state of the world
• Love is dangerous, I might get hurt

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The most powerful thing you can do (and it is
very powerful) to change the world is to change
your own beliefs about the nature of life, people
(especially yourself) and reality, and begin to
act accordingly. Shakti Gawain
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Thoughts to remember

• If you dont want to do it, become it, be it then
  dont talk about it
• Know your power, believe in yourself, and keep
  your core strong and safe