want to improve your self-awareness keep watching this is life mastery gym I'm
Damon Cart and I teach people just like you
cutting-edge NLP processes and techniques so that you can master your
life and take charge of your destiny so if that sounds good make sure you click
that subscribe button so you get these videos on a regular basis self awareness
is a really hot topic when it comes to personal development and
self-improvement well why is that well because the more you are aware about
yourself the more that you have choice and the you can make different choices
and you can do different things if you don't like what you're currently getting
or you don't like how things are going right now because most of us are on
autopilot and if you're not aware of how these programs are running then the
programs are running you rather than you running the programs so for the past
several years I not only have worked on myself but I've worked with hundreds of
clients doing exactly this bringing out of unconsciousness these habits these
programs bringing it into consciousness awareness conscious awareness and then
modifying them changing them doing whatever we need to do so that the
programs then do what you want them to do and you create habits and automation
out of getting what it is that you want so by the end of this video you're gonna
have a lot more clarity around that so that you can have more choice rather
than just being on autopilot all of the time before we get into this if you have
any questions any comments along the way while you're watching the video make
sure you put those comments right down below and if you want to take this even
deeper I will show you away at the end of the video hence it's in the
description of how to take this much much deeper the levels of awareness that
I'm going to share with you in this video are not the only levels of
awareness I don't want people to think that because I only named three here
that like these are the only possible levels they're not I'm going to make
this very powerful and connect it to your sense of self and your identity and
or three basic levels that I'm going to give you and we're going to work
backwards actually so the first level that I want to introduce is the level of
feeling now this is the one that most people are conscious of they have a
feeling most people don't know where their feelings come from
they are just aware of when they have a feeling whether it's a good feeling or a
negative feeling that's what becomes conscious the whole process that
preceded that feeling coming to your conscious awareness is usually an
unconscious process that most people don't realize or understand and without
that self-awareness it does seem a bit chaotic like feelings just sort of
happen randomly and that's great when they're positive feelings that's great
when they're good feelings but sometimes we have negative feelings and we don't
know where they came from and we just say oh I just feel down I don't I don't
know why I just feel down that's just how it is it's just the way that it is
but no there is an actual process and you can become aware of that process
that leads up to having feelings but just know that that's the first level of
awareness that most people actually become aware of something that's a
usually the only awareness they have of self awareness is the way awareness of
their feelings of how I feel about something the second level of awareness
is what I call category or my mentor called category so you have all of these
experiences and you tend to categorize them and you you you tend to categorize
your feelings so you have a feeling and right away what do you do you give it a
label you categorize it that's a positive feeling that's a negative
feeling that's a good feeling that's a bad feeling
that's an enjoyable feeling that's a miserable feeling so the the level of
categorization usually happens or oftentimes will happen unconsciously it
feels automatic as soon as you have a negative feeling you already consider it
you've already categorized it as a bad or negative feeling and the same thing
with good feelings so category is a level of feeling it's usually kind of a
bridge between the unconscious and the conscious it's a category is has
something is something that you've already set up you kind of create these
categories about everything you've been doing this since pretty much since you
were born it's your way of figuring your way throughout the world
so things don't seem so random and so chaotic you create categories for them
you create a meaning of them and then the level that preceded this one that I
just talked about the level of feeling it's how you feel about that category so
if I have a feeling it comes into a category of negative or positive and
then you have a feeling about that so I have a positive feeling and then how do
I feel about that well you know it's usually more than just feeling positive
it's usually like wow I feel really good about that I feel I feel happy about
that whatever it is so category like I said is like that
bridge between the unconscious and the conscious the third level of awareness
is experience and you might say well that's not very unconscious I know that
I have experiences of course you do you know that you have experiences but bear
with me because it goes really really deep and now I'm gonna try to keep it as
simplified here as we possibly can so the level of experience this we could
also call scope so you have an experience certain things happen a
certain way and depending on how you code that experience will determine it
what category goes into and then will eventually determine how you feel about
it so what do you mean but what do I mean by how I code the feeling or how do
i code the experience well when you think about memories how do you think of
them because everybody thinks of their memories in a little bit differently is
it do you see something do you see a still image do you see a moving image do
you hear anything for some people their memories are primarily auditory for a
lot of people they're primarily visual and then for some people their memories
are actually very kinesthetic like they're very tactile they're very
proprioceptive like body movement now a lot of people say well no I'm all mine
as kinesthetic and that what they're not doing is they're not making that
distinction between an evaluative emotional feeling and the kinesthetic or
proprioception and tactile so when you get into NLP especially when people
start taking you know P trainings they want to say they want to they want to
know what they are are they more visual are they more auditory they're more
kinesthetic and lots of people will say oh I'm so kin
setec and i'll say well how do you know that you're really kinesthetic and they
say well always have to feel it I always have to feel it before I do something
that's all of us that's the first level that I talked about feelings the level
of feelings we all have feelings and we all process through feelings and we all
make decisions based on feeling but when I say kinesthetic in this way that I
mean it I mean does tactile like what it would is you know touch and then
proprioception I can close my eyes I can move my hands and I know my hands are
moving that's proprioception when you have an experience how do you experience
that and I could spend not only one video on just that I have spent entire
trainings on talking about just that how we experience something so to keep it
simple for this video to keep it short just think about well how what are the
distinctions of how you put together an experience and so most of time we're
talking about in memory real-time shifting your experiences is a little
more advanced so when you think about a memory how are you representing it do
you see yourself in a memory or do you relive the memory is it in color is it
in black and white is it a screen in front of you or does
it feel like it's panoramic like you step into it now all of your feeling all
of your memories are gonna be done slightly different they're all going to
be coded slightly different in a different way and those coatings
determine the category like I said that it goes in and then that category then
determines how you feel about it and then I say it determines but it could
also it's kind of like it rolls both ways the way you feel about something is
how you're going to categorize it how you categorize something is how you're
going to experience it how you experience something determines the
category how you categorize something determines how you feel about it now you
might be thinking whoa so what do I do about this what do I do with this if you
want more determination and control over how you feel about certain things the
trick here is that you can go into how you code your experiences like I said we
call this scope and change the coding and when you change the coding it will
change the category when you change the category you will change the way you
feel about it okay so why is this even important this is
amazingly important because it can change everything
so how often do you have a feeling that you don't like and you just want it to
you want to change it and you say to yourself I want to think about this
differently I want to feel differently about this and you try but it doesn't do
anything well why is that because you can't go with feelings directly you have
to chunk it down to those other levels that I just mentioned you're not going
to just change the way you feel about something it doesn't it just doesn't
happen that way and this is where a lot of people get very frustrated or a lot
of people kid themselves and make themselves believe that like oh yeah
this was a really painful experience but I am okay with it now or I'm happy about
it now it already you know it all worked out for the best
and I learned from it so now I feel good about it in most cases most people don't
feel good about it so if you want to change that though if you go into the
coding of the experience and like I said this is a huge I do have a training on
this and it's huge and there's a lot that goes into there's a lot of
understanding that goes into it but if you can go into the coding and
find out how you've coded this to make yourself categorize it this way to make
yourself feel this way by changing that coding you absolutely then can change
the category and then change the feeling about it and this becomes even more
powerful when you apply this to yourself because this is exactly how you create
your sense of self your self-concept your ego your self-image and most people
try to change themselves by going at it directly but that doesn't work and it
will create a lot of frustration but if you chunk this down and you go to the
level of experience and you start making changes there it will change everything
else so if you want to get in control of your feelings you need to have these
levels of awareness specifically knowing how do you categorize certain
experiences and then how the coding of those experiences then create the
category which then creates how you feel about it so like I said this is a huge
study but absolutely worth understanding it learning it having the levels of
awareness about your self your self-awareness and taking charge
of the way that you feel about things in the way that you think about things
especially yourself so if you do want to take this deeper if you go down to the
description below you'll see that there's a link and also append it to the
top comment here click on that link and you will get free access to the elements
of a healthy self-concept and again this is beginning level stuff
it's it's easy to learn and this is where it starts so I highly encourage
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