Now as I mentioned last week (see here), to get the benefits of colouring it is important to understand the difference between mindlessness and mindfulness. When someone is mindless, they are using a form of escape. To escape what? Often it can be as simple as escaping boredom or as complex as escaping our thoughts, feelings or even behaviours. Using mindless activities to procrastinate for example. When someone is mindful, they are rooted in the […]
Category Archives: Useful skill: Self-awareness
How to become more self-aware, the right way?
After understanding what self-awareness actually is and isn’t and being aware of the possible pitfalls we can fall into, it is important to improve our self-awareness the right way. Start small. Start with your thoughts. Noticing them, naming them, and then letting them go. This is not easy to do and the only way to do that is by keeping an open and non-judgmental mind. Judgement is the enemy of self-awareness whether we are talking […]
What is Self-Awareness?
A lot of the tips and tricks I’ve given require to first be aware of our thought patterns and behaviours. That advice is talking about self-awareness. A sort of “knowing is half the battle” kind of advice, but when most thoughts and habits are subconscious, understanding what it is and how to be able to do it will help since, as I’ve discovered these last few weeks, it is the first step to change habits […]