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What is Self Awareness?
What is Self Awareness?
The ability to accurately recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior. The ability to accurately assess one’s strengths and limitations, with a well-grounded sense of confidence, optimism, and a “growth mindset.”
Identifying emotions
Accurate self-perception
Recognizing strengths
Self-confidence
Self-efficacy
What are Feelings & Emotions?
What are Feelings & Emotions?
"Feelings are mental associations and reactions to an emotion. They are colored by our personal experiences and beliefs. Emotions are involuntary bodily responses like when you’re when you go to school and come to know there is a surprise test. Your pulse increases and you feel uneasy in your stomach."
"Feelings make of you aware of your emotions. So, feelings arise out of the narrative we give to the emotion. So, one might wonder, why do we have these feelings?"
Watch the video to the right to learn how your brain interprets feelings.
To teach self-awareness of one's emotions, children are encouraged to check-in throughout the day with their feelings.
To teach self-awareness of one's emotions, children are encouraged to check-in throughout the day with their feelings.
Name Your Feeling is one strategy they can use to identify their emotions.
Name Your Feeling is one strategy they can use to identify their emotions.
Name Your Feeling
Name Your Feeling
NAME
NAME
Notice how you are feeling
Pick a word (i.e. tired, angry, sad, frustrated) or emoji like the ones above!
CLAIM
CLAIM
Own your feeling and reach out and share it with someone. You say, “I am feeling ___!”
REFRAME
REFRAME
After you claimed how you are feeling, you can begin taking active steps to reframe…check out some tools on the next page!
Recognizing Feelings and Training Our Brains
Recognizing Feelings and Training Our Brains
Daily Check-In
Daily Check-In
1. How am I feeling today?
2. Who am I connecting with?
3. How am I moving my body?
4. What beauty am I recognizing or creating?
5. What am I grateful for?
6. Are my thoughts “cool thoughts?”
Cool Thoughts
Cool Thoughts
We can train our brains to have more “cool thoughts” to help us find calmness by repeating statements like these to ourselves:
This is hard, but I can deal with it!
If I keep trying, I can reach my goal!
Think of your own personal cool self-talk statement you can use during this time!
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