What Is A Lack Of Self-Awareness?
What Is A Lack Of Self-Awareness?
Self-awareness is the key for you to live your best life and be kind, compassionate, and happy. It is very hard to live a happy, meaningful, and fulfilling life when you lack self-awareness.
Are you living your best life or do you feel unhappy, stuck, disconnected from yourself, and are living a frustrating life? Do you lack self awarenesss?
When you lack self-awareness, you do not know who you are (spirit and personality), why you are on this earth, and what you like/dislike in life.
You experience negative emotions frequently and don’t live your best life because you fail to understand your power and ability to create your life from your identity, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, behaviour, words, actions, and habits.
So, what are some of the symptoms of lacking self-awareness? Let’s discuss that next.
Symptoms Of Lack Of Self-Awareness
All changes, even your happiness is dependent on your alignment with who you are and so your self-awareness is extremely important.
If you don’t know who you are, what you like, what you want, what you love doing, or what makes you happy, then it’s almost impossible to live your best life.
Let’s discuss some symptoms that you can watch for that indicate you lack self-awareness.
Trouble Understanding Your Emotions
You have trouble understanding your emotions and why you feel a certain way. You have never taken the time to sit with these emotions and figure out the reason they arise.
Emotions are not bad, they arise for a reason and they are serving a purpose, they are here to guide you and to tell you something. If you suppress them, then you will never know what they are trying to tell you.
Figure out why you are feeling the way you’re feeling, what your thoughts are that are leading you to feel that way because emotions come from your thoughts, beliefs, and identity.
Make Excuses For Failure
You make excuses for your failures, act like a victim and blame others instead of growing and learning from your failures.
Always remember that you are 100% responsible for your life. Nobody has the power to make you feel a certain way unless if you allow it.
It is your thoughts, your stories, and your perspective of what happened that makes you feel a certain way and the sooner you take responsibility for your life for your failures and learn from them, the better your life gets.
There is no such thing as failure. They are guidance and feedback so you can course-correct, pivot, and stay on the right path.
Difficulty Empathizing
You have difficulty having compassion, empathizing, and understanding other people’s emotions because you are not aware and in touch with your own emotions.
You expect others to suppress their emotions just like you.
Compassion is one of the natural traits of your soul. It is what our creator is and the more you can align with your creator, the more compassion and empathy will be possible and natural for you.
Know that you are a soul that’s having a temporary human experience and not the other way around.
The more you align with your creator, the more you will realize and know that you are love, peace, joy, compassion, and kindness and not frustration, anger, hate, and jealousy.
Lack Self Identity And Control
You lack self-identity and control because you don’t know who you are. You are a powerful soul that’s having a temporary human experience.
The more you realize who you are, and who you can be, the more you’ll be able to have control over yourself and will be in alignment with your creator.
You are an individualized expression of your creator and so the sooner you align with your creator, the better your life will get.
Your self-identity determines your perspective in life and then that guides your beliefs thoughts, feelings, words, actions, habits, and then your destiny.
The more you identify with your soul and align with your creator, the better your life gets. You are love, peace, joy, compassion, and abundance by nature.
Trouble Setting Realistic Goals
You have trouble setting realistic goals because you have no idea as to what gives you joy and how exactly you want to experience life.
You don’t even know who you are so you have a tough time setting the goals for your best life.
Take some time to figure out who you are, what’s your purpose, why you are here, align with your creator for guidance and design your life.
You are here to live an amazing life in alignment with your purpose.
Every human being is here to grow and serve others and how you serve others is determined by the unique gift that’s given by your creator.
As long as you are making that your priority, you will live an amazing, meaningful, and fulfilled life.
You Become Defensive
You react defensively when someone questions your identity and self-image.
When you are self-aware, you know that others’ opinions about you do not define you. Everyone looks at the world through their perspective and filters scenarios based on their life experience.
You Seek Others’ Approval
You constantly seek others’ approval in every decision you make instead of turning inward for guidance, trusting yourself and making decisions in alignment with your purpose and mission in life.
You know what’s right for you, and you are the authority of your life along with your creator who is always available to you as a guide.
Live your true life in alignment with your vision and top values.
What Causes A Lack Of Self-Awareness?
We are never taught how to become self-aware and it is hard for us to realize that we lack self-awareness especially if none of the people around us are awakened and self-aware.
The main reason for most people lacking self-awareness is that they do not spend any time in self-reflection and are simply too distracted by technology, social media, and are influenced by other people around them who are not like-minded.
People blindly follow societal rules that do not serve them to their detriment and live an unhappy life fulfilling someone else’s dreams and agenda.
They forget why they are here in the first place which is to fulfill their purpose and soul’s contract.
Mental illness can also be one of the other reasons why some people suffer from a lack of self-awareness.
How To fix And Reduce The lack Of Self Awareness?
Meditate Daily
Have a daily morning routine and spend some time in silence. Practice meditation, align with your creator and be open to guidance.
Do Self-Reflection
Take some time preferably out in nature where you are inspired and at peace to reflect and understand yourself. Journal and ask your self-discovery questions.
What do you like/dislike? What gives you joy? What frustrates and triggers you? What life experiences do you want to have? What type of relationships do you want? What are your top values? What is your life vision and purpose?
Discover your God-given unique talents and gift(s). Your clues are in what you liked doing as a child, as well as the kinds of compliments you normally get.
Ask Trusted Friends
Ask your friends to describe you and tell you what they like about you the most, what they see as your greatest strengths, and weaknesses.
Set Goals
Write down your goals in every area of your life in alignment with your vision, purpose, and values.
Come up with plans and actions to accomplish these goals. Schedule daily tasks to accomplish your goals.
In conclusion, I hope you know exactly what a lack of self-awareness is and what symptoms to watch out for to identify yourself or someone who is suffering from it.
You also now know what causes lack of self-awareness and how to begin fixing and reducing it in case you identified yourself as someone with this particular issue.
Next it would be helpful for you to read What Are Good Morning Habits to continue your self-awareness journey.