Hello, my name is Dr. Anna Pittman and I
have the Human Potential Program for Professionals. This video
is on self awareness. Um it is a topic
that begins to really invite me to look in.
We look at what are my internal states as my
resources, my preferences, my my feelings. How
do I remain and promote self awareness so that I
have healthy boundaries and I learned how to express my
needs, my values, my ideas. Emotional awareness
self assessment, self confidence are really all part
self awareness in the bigger picture. But in addition
I really want to learn how to activate a capacity
to witness. I'll give you a small example,
imagine a big tree and there are two birds in
the tree. One is flitting about, going about,
making the nest flying away, coming back very
busy. You can imagine the busy bird, the
busy mind and the other bird is always watching.
It's just sitting somewhere in the tree, always watching.
It doesn't move, it doesn't have anything to
say, it's just noticing. And we actually have
these two aspects to our mind. When we discover
the bird who is aware, who is witnessing,
who's noticing. We also discover our serenity, our
peace, our calm, and we can better see
what's moving with a bit of detachment so I don't
feel flooded or overwhelmed. These are some of the
skills that we look at in this segment. In
addition we start to look at body awareness, kinesthetic
awareness. This is important too because I need to
know what I'm feeling in order to know where I'm
at with you and with myself. Finally, we
look at the brain, the insular cortex, which
is an interesting part of the brain that sits in
between the two hemispheres and when I connect to this
part of the brain, I'm connecting to consciousness to
my ability to land in homeostasis and stability and connection.
So this is a big, another big topic
among the eight domains that we look at in the
entire program. Please feel free to look at the
other videos and I do thank you for watching.
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