The most important aspect is how we communicate with ourselves. We have the ability to change the way we talk to ourselves and the way we communicate with others. If we’re not open and honest about our own needs and desires, we are bound to be disappointed with how other people respond.
Communication is a big one for me. When I was a teenager I had a very low self-esteem and I was very self-conscious. I had a lot of issues to work out with myself, so I’d often feel like I didn’t deserve to be on this Earth. This caused me to have a very negative self image that I lived with all my life. And because I was so self-conscious about my body image, I had a lot of issues with how I looked.
I think that, because we are more and more socialized into the idea that we have to “be perfect” in order to be taken seriously, it’s become really hard for us to realize that we can and should be flexible. You can’t always be perfect, but you can be more flexible with how you communicate with others. This is one thing we can all learn from each other and that’s really valuable.
One of the most important things we can do to help ourselves is to let go of our “perfect body image.” We can let go of the idea that we have to be perfect in order to be taken seriously and instead we can realize that we can and should be flexible in how we communicate with others. For instance, let’s say you want to have a conversation with a friend.
Or another example, lets say you’ve been invited to a party but you have to ask someone for a ride instead of just showing up. Instead of being rigid about this, you can actually relax and let someone know that you’re available and that you’re not trying to be a jerk.
The people who take a flexible approach to communication are the people who take a lot more risks, who go through more stress, and who have more self-awareness.
This would probably have been my suggestion in the last post. However, now that I’ve been reading your blog a bit more I see that in addition to being flexible about what you can say and what you can’t, you have to be self-aware as well. If you always have to check the time on your phone, and if you have no idea what your friend wants that’s a good thing, but if you’re the person who always says “umm…
So if you can’t, then you can’t tell people things.
If you have to, you have to be self-aware of your communication styles. Your body language is a very important part of the way you communicate, and you have to be self-aware of how you choose to communicate. You can’t just send a message with the message, you have to let the person know you’re interested in what they have to say. This is why people who are self-aware and communicate with their body language know how to talk to people.
Well, that’s a very nice way to put it. Self-awareness is a big part of being human. It’s just a shame that most of us don’t have the self-awareness to actually use it.