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Self Awareness Techniques: Unlocking the Power Within (Part Two)

In part one, we explored the foundations of self-awareness—recognising emotions, noticing triggers, and understanding how feelings show up in your body. Now let’s go deeper. These next seven techniques expand your awareness, helping you see the bigger picture of how your past, values, and personality shape the way you show up in life.

1. Create Your Life Timeline

Map the key events of your life—both positive and painful. Seeing your journey laid out helps you identify patterns, growth, and lessons that continue to shape you today.

2. Beginner's Mind

Step out of your routines and try something new. Fresh experiences—like a class, a new cuisine, or exploring a different place—reveal surprising insights about yourself.

3. Understand the Impact of Your Emotions

Your emotions ripple outward, influencing others more than you realise. Take responsibility for the energy you bring into a room.

4. Become the Witness Yourself

Practice observing yourself as if you’re watching from above. This “witness self” creates space between feeling and reacting, giving you clarity and choice.

5. Know Your Values

Our frustrations often stem from expecting others to live by our values. By identifying what matters most to you, you’ll understand why certain behaviours trigger you—and stop holding others to your rulebook.

6. Seek Feedback

Sometimes we need a mirror. Invite trusted friends or mentors to give you honest feedback. It can be uncomfortable, but it’s one of the fastest ways to grow.

7. Explore Your Personality Profile

Personality tools like DISC shine a light on your strengths and blind spots. They help you understand why you react as you do and guide you to adapt more effectively in relationships.

These seven techniques deepen your self-awareness and connect you more fully to yourself and others. Remember—self-awareness isn’t about perfection, it’s about progress.

✨ Call to Action: Which of these practices will you try first? Start small, reflect often, and celebrate your insights. And for guided exercises that bring these tools to life, check out our Move Your Mood Workbook.

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Written by Alisa Pettit

It’s never too late for a lane change. Insite Mind is the brainchild of one woman who after a decade spinning in the hamster wheel of the accounting world gave it up to live out her heart work. But it didn’t come without challenge and a little nudge from the universe in the form of a book Dealing with Difficult People. Upon opening it Alisa was surprised to find in black and white text “maybe it’s you”. So after several ego deaths and many personal development books along the way Alisa Pettit found her way to coaching. Now a fully fledged positive mindset coach and personal mastery guru Ali’s work helps people find their way through mindset teachings.

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