Increasing Self-Awareness: The Key to Personal Growth

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

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. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. 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 Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Have a question for us? Email: contact@beingwellpodcast.com to submit questions or potential topics you'd like us to explore in future episodes. Sponsors: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Try Splendid Spoon today and take meal-planning off your plate. Just go to SplendidSpoon.com/BEINGWELL for $50 off your first box Discover your full genetic potential by uploading your existing DNA test results at genomelink.io. No trial period, no credit card, and no hidden fees! Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.3	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,
0:14.3	welcome back.
0:16.0	One of the most important skills for a person to have is self-awareness.
0:19.2	It improves our relationships, it helps us pursue the goals that truly matter to us,
0:24.3	and it supports us in growing and changing for the better.
0:27.7	But as I said on an episode of the podcast, just a few months ago, self-awareness might
0:32.8	be the single biggest challenge in the world of personal growth, because it is both so
0:37.4	essential and so difficult to see ourselves clearly.
0:41.8	And I even question during that episode whether it's possible for us to become more self-aware.
0:47.6	Well, today it's time for me to eat my words a little bit, because we're going to be
0:52.7	focusing on self-awareness, including how we can maybe just maybe become more self-aware
0:59.2	over time.
1:00.4	So to help us do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical
1:04.6	psychologist, he's a best-selling author, and he's also my dad.
1:08.6	So dad, how are you feeling about this topic?
1:10.9	I feel it's perhaps the foundation topic for truly being well, with it all problems are
1:19.8	solvable, without it, no problems are solvable.
1:28.0	Slight exaggeration, but pretty close to the truth.
1:31.6	Yeah.
1:32.6	And it's something that you can really develop over time, and we're going to talk about
1:36.4	that.
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