#self-awareness — Public Fediverse posts
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I'd been collecting spiritual experiences like everything else.
Perfect moments from travel, teachings to sound impressive, silence had no story.
What have you been collecting instead of actually experiencing?
#spiritualpractice #mindfulness #authenticity
#yogaphilosophy #contemplativelife #presence
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I wasn't deepening my practice. I was building a résumé.
Each retreat, each teacher became a badge. 'I studied in Rishikesh' said with that mix of humility and pride.
What spiritual experiences have you collected without really integrating?
#spiritualmaterialism #authenticpractice
#spiritualgrowth #selfawareness #consciousness
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Transform your emotions, transform your life. Feel what rises without letting it control your next move.
#EmotionalHealing #SelfAwareness #InnerGrowth #MindsetShift #HealingJourney #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Meditation #QAC -
When a Hard Season Arrives
The practice doesn't protect you from hard seasons. It doesn't insulate you from loss or difficulty. What it gives you is a more accurate address for the pain. Being in difficulty with more clarity is different from being in difficulty in confusion. It doesn't make it less. But it changes what you can do with it.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/when-a-hard-season-arrives/
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Your brain doesn’t just find answers it shapes them through attention, beliefs, memories, and emotion.
#BrainPower #MindsetShift #SelfAwareness #GrowthMindset #ThoughtsMatter #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Balance #Meditation -
Nothing to Hide 2
To believe you have nothing to hide is to admit that you do not know what you are hiding. -
When has a failure improved your judgment, leadership, or direction more than an easy success ever could? #FailureAndSuccess #GrowthMindset #Leadership #DecisionMaking #SelfAwareness #PersonalGrowth #ThoughtOfTheDay
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Nothing to Hide
To believe one has nothing to hide or keep private is to reveal one's own ignorance. -
The Practice Doesn’t End
There is no graduation from this practice. Not because you're doing it wrong. Because the practice is not the path to something else. It is the thing itself. The ongoing, never-quite-complete project of knowing yourself honestly and responding to what you find. The work and the living are not sequential. They are the same thing.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/the-practice-doesnt-end/
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I am Me, It Would Be Nice if You Could be You
I am a bit different than average. Okay, maybe that is to mild of a way of looking at it. In reality my focus is never on the metrics I observe others using. For instance, I do not care what your political views are or your pronouns, biases or what your other identifiers may be. What I focus on is how you behave despite how you would like the world to perceive you. I tend to always believe a person is of the best intentions until they give evidence otherwise. In short I am evidence driven rather than being dragged around by my emotions. Does that mean I do not have emotions? Of course not, it means that how I feel about what you said is far less likely to have an effect on my view of you than my evaluation of your intent.
It is all to easy for us to say 'I do not like labels.' and this may be true. It does not change the fact that labels is how the human brain tracks. We label everything. That is how we developed language in the first place. When I think about my own identity I am not focused on accidents of birth like my hair color, eye color, race, gender, nationality. I am more concerned about the attributes I play a role in. Such as humanity, apprecitation, awareness of my surroundings, awareness of now.
It is easy to define yourself by common labels such as Christian, Atheist, Muslim, CIS, Trans, etc. How important are these to your identity and why? When a person thinks of me I would far rather their first thought be 'He really cares' than 'He is a great Software Developer'. I really do not even care what pronouns they use as long as they are comfortable with them. To me if you confuse my identity I do not find that as a flaw in you. I find it a a flaw in me. How am I not representing my ideals? How can I more clearly reflect my ideals. If I have failed in this, it certainly is not your fault. Identity is a real issue these days. Though, the next time someone tries to set boundries ask yourself this. Are they building a privacy fence around their yard or are they building a fence around my yard? Respect the fence around their yard, do not accept their trying to control the way you think or express yourself. If a person offends you at the moment then do not dwell on that. Just move past that moment to now. If they tend to always be offensive toward you then move on in a way that seems most productive. These are ideals I live by not just talk about. Were most people tend to be very critical of others. I am most critical of myself. The reason is quite simple. I control my behavior not other people's. So I am only responsible for my behavior not theirs. It is about accountability. I am me, it would be very nice if you could be you. No one else has a right to impose on who you are. The good news is that they only can if you allow them to.
Unus Nemo
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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature — that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American novelist, screenwriter
Interview (1997-02-07) by Jeffrey Zaslow, “Straight Talk,” USA Weekend magazineMore about this quote: wist.info/grafton-sue/85859/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #suegrafton #character #darkside #darkness #denial #humannature #passion #selfawareness #selfdeception #selfdenial #selfdiscovery #selfexamination #selfimage #selfknowledge #selfunderstanding
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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Wayne Dyer. Which challenge deserves a fresh perspective? #Perspective #Mindset #PersonalGrowth #Leadership #SelfAwareness #Reframing #WayneDyer #ThoughtOfTheDay
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Sometimes, the hardest cage to escape is the one that gives us a reason not to change.
What are you gaining by staying stuck?
#Psychology #SelfAwareness #VictimMindset #PersonalGrowth #Accountability #Podcast
مين المستفيد من إنك تفضل ضحية؟ - بداية أخرى 🌷 - Apple Podcasts https://share.google/QS6wpTOl4CQR6tvWD
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What if you’re not trapped by what happened to you…
but by the hidden benefits of staying the victim?
Sometimes, the hardest cage to escape is the one that gives us a reason not to change.
What are you gaining by staying stuck?
#Psychology #SelfAwareness #VictimMindset #PersonalGrowth #Accountability #Podcast
مين المستفيد من إنك تفضل ضحية؟ - بداية أخرى 🌷 - Apple Podcasts https://share.google/LzFsSrzbmrl10hGkE
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Sometimes people think they know you. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all. By Leila Sales
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The pain you keep outrunning does not leave. It waits with the truth you postponed.
#PerformancePsychology #SelfAwareness #MentalSkills #Wellbeing #HumanNature
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Learn from challenges. Build resilience. Know where you stand in life.
#Quotes #LifeQuotes #Resilience #SelfAwareness #HayleyWilliams
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/733/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #firststep #honesty #rascal #reform #scoundrel #selfawareness #selfcorrection
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And certainly a wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
[Certes l’homme d’entendement n’a rien perdu, s’il a soy-mesme.]Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 38 (1.38)), “Of Solitude [De la solitude]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #loss #possessions #selfaffirmation #selfassurance #selfawareness #selfesteem #selfpossession #selfregard #selfreliance #selfrespect #selfsufficiency #understanding #wisdom #integrity #importance #value
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Maybe it's time to build technology that helps us question why we're choosing it.
#Edorena #DecisionIntelligence #DecisionMaking #BehaviorChange #HumanBehavior #IntentionalLiving #AI #FutureOfTechnology #SelfAwareness #Innovation #BuildInPublic
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DATE: August 25, 2026 at 01:53PM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEEDTITLE: Your brain may not actually “make” decisions
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260823094148.htm
A neuroscientist is challenging the idea that the brain contains a central system that actually “makes” our decisions. What we experience as choosing may instead emerge from the continuous interaction of perception, movement, the body, and the world around us.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260823094148.htm
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I think we are missing out in genuine #communication, and true relating.
Simply because we are ignorant of who we are and that we are attempting to talk from our:
🔸perspective
🔸truth
🔸and level of #consciousnesswith almost zero #awareness (or care) of the other's:
🔸perspective
🔸truth
🔸and level of consciousnessIt's like we know and understand the words yet speaking different languages.
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#ConsciousCommunity #SelfAwareness #Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #Empathy #Presence #SelfKnowledge
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"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel." Fair? Read the blog. #SelfAwareness #Confidence #PersonalGrowth #Mindset #SelfWorth #LifeLessons #ThoughtOfTheDay #Perspective
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What Will End With Us? Ancestral Healing and the Courage to Break Generational Cycles
Some of the patterns we carry did not begin with us. This reflection explores ancestral healing, inherited survival responses, and the choices we can make to create a healthier emotional inheritance for future generations. -
From FB, and so relatable. The Self There is a particular kind of shame that comes from looking around one day and feeling like everybody else got a head start on being a person.
They built careers while you were learning how not to panic. They formed healthy relationships while you were still mistaking familiar pain for love. They saved money, took risks, travelled, studied, made plans and developed confidence while enormous parts of your energy were being spent simply trying to feel safe inside your own life.
But nobody sees time that way.
They see the age.
By thirty you should have this. By forty you should know that. By fifty surely you should be further along. There are invisible milestones everywhere, and when your life doesn’t match them it can feel like evidence that you’ve somehow failed at adulthood.
So you compare your chapter to somebody else’s without accounting for what it cost you just to reach the page you’re on.
You forget the years spent recovering from things you didn’t cause. The relationships you had to unlearn. The beliefs about yourself you had to dismantle. The energy lost to anxiety, hypervigilance, grief, dissociation, people-pleasing or simply getting through days that looked completely ordinary to everybody else.
That time wasn’t empty.
You were doing work.
It just wasn’t the kind of work society knows how to put on a résumé.
You were learning that love shouldn’t frighten you. You were learning that saying no doesn’t make you cruel. You were discovering which parts of your personality were actually yours and which were adaptations. You were learning how to make decisions without asking what would upset everyone else first.
Some people got to spend their early years building a life.
Others had to spend part of adulthood rebuilding the person who was supposed to live it.
Of course those timelines look different.
This doesn’t mean trauma should become the explanation for everything that hasn’t happened yet, or that we have no agency over where we go from here. But shame is a terrible starting line.
Maybe you aren’t lazy. Maybe you aren’t immature. Maybe you haven’t “wasted your potential.”
Maybe you’ve been measuring yourself against people whose energy wasn’t being spent fighting battles you couldn’t see.
There is no prize for arriving at somebody else’s version of life on time.
And perhaps I’m not behind at all.
Perhaps this is simply what my life looks like after taking the long way back to myself.
#theself #knowthyself #feelingbehind #complextrauma #cptsd #childhoodtrauma #traumarecovery #healingjourney #selfworth #selfcomparison #selfawareness #psychology #mentalhealth #survivalmode #latebloomer
