Self awareness allows you to understand your own personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and how others perceive you. Developing self awareness requires focusing attention on your own behavior, emotions, and thought patterns. This allows you to recognize triggers for emotional reactions and change interpretations in your mind to shift emotions. Having strong self awareness facilitates better personal and professional relationships through improved empathy and understanding of others.

1. Self awareness &
Positive Thinking

2. Self Awareness
• Self Awareness is having a clear perception of your personality,
including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and
emotions. Self Awareness allows you to understand other people,
how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in
the moment.
• We might quickly assume that we are self aware, but it is helpful to
have a relative scale for awareness. If you have ever been in an auto
accident you may have experienced everything happening in slow
motion and noticing details of your thought process and the event.
This is a state if heightened awareness. With practice we can learn
to engage these types Trainings by Vidyastates and see new
of heightened Bhagwat
opportunities for interpretations in our thoughts, emotions, and
conversations.

3. Why develop self awareness?
• As you develop self awareness you are able to make changes in the
thoughts and interpretations you make in your mind. Changing the
interpretations in your mind allows you to change your emotions.
Self awareness is one of the attributes of Emotional Intelligence and
an important factor in achieving success.
• Self awareness is the first step in creating what you want and
mastering your. Where you focus your attention, your emotions,
reactions, personality and behaviour determine where you go in
life.
• Having self awareness allows you to see where your thoughts and
emotions are taking you. It also allows you to see the controls of
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat
your emotions, behaviour, and personality so you can make
changes you want.

4. Self Awareness in Relationships
• Relationships are easy until there is emotional turmoil. This is
the same whether you are at work or in your personal life.
• When you can change the interpretation in your mind of what
you think you can change your emotions and shift the
emotional quality of your relationships. When you can change
the emotions in your relationships, you open up entirely new
possibilities your life.
• Having a clear understanding of your thought and, behavior
patterns helps you understand other people. This ability to
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat
empathize facilitates better personal and professional
relationships.

5. Develop Self Awareness
• Self awareness is developed through practices in focusing your
attention on the details of your personality and behaviour. It is not
learned from reading a book. When you read a book you are
focusing your attention on the conceptual ideas in the book. With
your attention in a book you are practicing not paying attention to
your own behaviour, emotions and personality.
• Think of learning to be mindful and self aware as learning to dance.
When learning to dance we have to pay attention to how and
where our feet move, our hands and body motion, what our
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat
partner is doing, music, beat, floor space, and other dancers. Self
awareness is not learned from books and the Tango is not either

6. Develop Self Awareness
• If you have an emotional reaction of anger or frustration, you
notice many of the thoughts and small triggers that build up
towards those emotions. You also notice moments when you
can change the interpretations in your mind, or not believe
what we are thinking. In this heightened awareness you
instinctively make better choices in your thought process long
before an emotional reaction or destructive behaviour.
• Making changes in your behaviour is much easier to do when
you catch them early in the dynamic, before the momentum
of thought and emotion has gathered steam. The changes in
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat
your mind, and behaviour become simple and easy steps
when you develop self awareness.

7. Importance of Self Awareness
• Empathy
• Admission
• Man in the Mirror
• Tolerance
• Humility
• Likability
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat

8. Test your Self Awareness
1. Do you listen to others during a conversation? Or, do you tend to
do a lot of the talking?
2. Do you ask others how they feel about situations? Or, do you
make assumptions based on your own feelings?
3. Do you think about how your actions affect others? Or, are you
confident that others are fine with how you handle situations?
4. Are you aware of other people’s social cues? Or, do you mostly
focus on your own? Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat
And many more………..

9. Positive Thinking
• While some people are born optimists, it is possible to change
your mind set to start thinking more positively whatever your
natural inclination.
• Positive thinking brings with it a whole host of benefits
including improved wellbeing, lowered stress levels, better
relationships and improved quality of life.
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat

10. Tips for positive thinking
• Create some positive mantras
• Focus on your success
• Get a role model
• Focus on the positives
• Do not try to predict the future
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat

11. Tips for positive thinking
• Surround yourself with positivity
• Keep a gratitude diary
• Challenge negative thoughts
• Focus on the solution rather than the problem
• Fake it
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat

12. Assignments
1. Answer the questions on self awareness and check your
progress.
2. Why is it important to be self aware?
3. How does positive thinking help in living a better life?
Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat

13. Trainings by Vidya Bhagwat