Importance Of Self Awareness And Knowledge

A path to self-awareness and knowledge.
From babyhood until old age, the self walks a journey of self-awareness, self-motivation, and knowledge. It is often difficult during the adult stage to appreciate just how complex a being we are with our diverse strengths and weaknesses, drives and ambitions, habits, cultural and moral values.
It often takes others to point out both our positive and negative traits and sometimes this can be disheartening and unflattering.
To develop a more organised view of ourselves, it is important to look at different areas of our existence and this would include our personality type, our emotions and habits and more importantly our psychological needs that determine our behaviour.
Journaling allows us critical thinking

Being emotionally literate, allows a person to be cognisant about their emotional responses and recognise why they are exhibiting those emotions, have a good understanding of their personal values and how those feelings and emotions affect their interpersonal relationships. â€oeEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.― C.G. Jung
2 A healthful release for feelings and tensions
Finding a safe and healthy release for stress can sometimes be difficult in this busy modern world, where time and personal space are ever decreasing. Continually feeling overwhelmed can have adverse effects on both our body and mind resulting in such conditions as heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity, along with anxiety related illnesses. It has been proven that excessive amounts of stress put a strain on the immune system and this in turn, lowers a person’s ability to fight off disease and infection. Research carried out by Goetsch and Fuller (1995), revealed a decrease in the activity of lymphocytes (natural killer cells, which are a particular type of white blood cell that fights of viruses and cancer cells) among medical students during their final

Coping with critical life events often puts a toll on human resilience. According to Baltes (1987) and
Hetherington and Baltes (1988), the three kinds of factors that go to make the predictable change during adult life are, ‘Normative, age graded influences which refer to biological and social changes, which normally occur at predictable ages, including puberty, menopause, marriage and retirement.
Normative, history-graded influences, which refer to historical events such as wars, recessions, epidemics (e.g. AIDS), which affect a whole generation or cohort at about the same time. Nonnormative influences, which refer to idiosyncratic transitions such as divorce, unemployment and illness (and, in addition, death of a spouse, change of job and moving house).’
Such life influences and changes are always stressful and impact physically, emotionally and psychologically. For the older generation, loneliness and a loss of status become more evident, especially if accompanied by poor health. Many seniors are no longer able to carry out physical tasks and their independence is often