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Three Components: Listening, Willingness, & Community
Mandy June 10, 2021
Three Components of Self-Awareness and Managing Yourself
So what is required of me for Self-Awareness and Self-Management?
As we move forward in our journey for greater self-awareness and self-management, there are three components that are essential to deepening our understanding of self. Listening to God and others, willingness, and community are three intertwined concepts that, if we are intentional, flow together and make us available to God for insight and transformation.
Why are listening, willingness, and community so important to self-awareness?
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Are you willing and listening in community?
Listening helps us to see more clearly, willingness helps us to engage in the process, and community supports our listening and willingness. The intertwining of these 3 components gives us a fuller picture of who we are and who God has created us to be.
None of these can be effective without the others.
Test yourself:
When we are doing the journey alone, and not in community!
Contemplation and Listening Exercise
Before the next video, pray through the following questions:
Am I willing? Am I willing to dig deep and be available?
Do I trust God enough to go where he’s leading me, not just outwardly, but inwardly?
Respond to Video:
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1.3 Three Components of Self-Awareness and Self-Management
Answer in a paragraph:
As you prayed, did you find you are willing to dig deep and be available? Do you find it easy to listen to God? Do you find community easy? Do you have a good community around you already?
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7 Replies
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Yes I am willing to dig as deep as needed to become emotionally healthy and available to serve God and others. For the most part listening for that still small voice has been difficult for me because of the noise, in my mind, that I have allowed to develop over the years. However incorporating healthy spiritual practices, that have been taught and encouraged by listening to mature healthy Christians within community, has certainly been beneficial and a blessing. I thank God everyday for placing the right people in my path that encourage me ,hold me accountable and are not afraid to speak His truth to me.
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Martha, thanks for your honesty. It sounds like you have a wonderful community of believers around you. This is a wonderful blessing. When it comes to hearing God’s voice, we can be confident that he is eager to speak and those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled!
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Authentic community needs to be intentional in my life. I know that I can get stuck in my own head, and go inwards. I tend to avoid reaching out and I’ll isolate myself. I don’t naturally think to ask for help either. Knowing this about myself, I need to create regular patterns of community in my life. If I wait until I NEED it, I’m already hurting.
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@Jenn this reminds me of the old saying: “You need to network before you need your network.” Thanks for sharing your heart and desire for strong and genuine relationships.
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I love that saying! Thanks 🙂
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I feel that I am at a point in my life where I NEED to dig deep. I am a very blessed woman, however, there is something in me that has longed for more…I’m not sure what that more is but I don’t want to ignore the desire to go after what that may be any longer. The idea of it scares me, as someone who has believed I am not smart enough or capable for most of my adult life, I find the idea of digging deep unnerving. I think part of it is not that I don’t trust God, it’s that I don’t trust myself to know what is of God and what is not.
Community is hard for me, I know many people and many people like me but being open and vulnerable has hurt me in the past so I’m guarded. Also I don’t stand up for myself so if I don’t agree with someone or don’t like what they may be saying I tend to shut down. I have had too many people talk over me and say things like “don’t you know” or “really how did you not see that” or even ridicule me in front of others. I have only a couple people that I feel safe being completely open and honest with
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Yes, I am willing to dig deep but not available .I always thought of digging deeper but had not allotted enough time. Based on the preceding, I conclude that I’m not willing because willingness involves digger deeper and availability, without the other it could not be termed as willingness.
Sometimes, I trust God while other times I don’t. When, I’m maintaining a good prayer life and on fire, I trust God outwardly and inwardly, but I’m so down in my prayer life and not on fire I don’t.
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