What's your view of relationships? A useful self-exploration exercise to raise awareness!
What's your view of relationships? A useful self-exploration exercise to raise awareness!
In my work as a counselor I help people to help themselves. But how? Creating the right context for a journey within themselves so that they can develop awareness. I love a quote from the great C.G. Jung who said: Make the unconscious conscious, otherwise the unconscious will guide your life and you will call it destiny. There are many factors at stake when it comes to relationships. We are all conditioned by the education we have received, by the reference cultural models, by the morality of the context that surrounded us. Above all from our family history, from the things we have heard and seen as we grow up. One aspect that no one considers, but it is fundamental, is that all this is part of us without us even realizing it. We all live on autopilot. It has been calculated that for about 96% of our time we are not aware of the things we do or think. Think about it for a moment. Only 3/4% of what we experience belongs to the sphere of awareness. Sometimes we are convinced that we communicate well, that we are present to ourselves in life and also to others… in reality, this is often not the case. So one day it may happen that the relationship we have longed for does not satisfy us anymore or that the right one never comes. Whatever it is that is keeping you from enjoying your relationship or keeping you from finding the right person, the right word for you is AWARENESS! If you want to stop living your relationships on autopilot, start by exploring your very personal vision on this issue through the exercise you find below.
This exercise has the function of increasing your awareness of your mental patterns, behaviors and the way you live and manage emotions while living or thinking about your relationships, etc. All things that often operate in your subconscious. Subconscious literally means below awareness. Anytime you are doing something without being fully present it means that you are on autopilot. Maybe you are driving and reliving the fight scene with your partner. Yet turns, brakes, parking ... To change your relationship patterns, to build a solid bond that meets your needs, \ it is essential that you become aware of your personal vision of how things are… inside and outside of you! What I propose to you today is just a tool, it does not solve the problem but helps because it allows you to become aware. The more you use it, the more your consciousness will expand. It is in this expanded state of consciousness that you can transform your automatic patterns into conscious choices.
