Increasing Self-Awareness: The Key to Personal Growth
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
Shownotes Transcript
Self-awareness is both one of the most important skills for a person to have, and one of the most challenging to develop. In this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore what it takes to increase self-awareness over time, the different forms of awareness that come into play, and why maintaining self-awareness can be such a struggle. Rick then emphasizes how we can develop a greater awareness of the positive aspects of ourselves.
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Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:45: Rick’s observations of people’s self-awareness when beginning therapy
6:10: Distinguishing internal and external self-awareness
7:40: Different types of internal self-awareness
12:20: Why is it hard to become self-aware?
18:45: Positive discoveries and Forrest’s personal experience
29:05: The natural movement toward health and sanity
33:35: What causes us to lose touch with positive aspects of our nature?
42:45: How can we cultivate more self-awareness over time?
49:45: Questions to ask yourself
54:50: A creative exercise for mapping out parts of yourself
58:10: Recap
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