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Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.