How to understand Awareness better. Key Personal Awareness Ingredients. Awareness Management for Executive Genius.

September 25, 2009 by kutenk
Filed under: Self Improvement 

Awareness management and executive genius are all about gaining control—of your moods, your energy level, your creative punch, your intuitive function, and your interpersonal charisma. Perhaps you already have some of the pieces of the awareness puzzle—you might know that if you get more exercise, eat better food, drink less alcohol, and get more sleep, you tend to operate at a higher awareness level.

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Awareness itself, being the very medium within which we live and operate, is invisible, tasteless, non-physical, and mostly beyond the bounds of traditional measurements.

The phenomenon of awareness has always been a challenge to talk about because our entire life experience takes place within our individual “awareness bubble.” This is the all-encompassing medium in which we live, so we’re usually not aware of it at all. This is why most people in a business environment, including the sharpest thinkers, generally have scant refiective opinion about what awareness is and how it influences business life.

The phenomenon of awareness is closely related to what we call personal experience. We experience our own selves and the world around us through our capacity of personal awareness. So to understand awareness better, consider your own personal awareness ingredients:



  • Sensations: You are continually experiencing sensory inputs that are being received in your brain from your visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory, and taste organs. Your ongoing perceptions and sensations of the present moment are the foundation of awareness—this is important!
  • Memories: You regularly shift your focus of attention away from present-moment sensations to re-experience memories of sensory and emotional events in the past. This provides you with a sense of who you have been—and generates your sense of personal identity.
  • Thoughts: Using perceptions, symbols, memories, attitudes, beliefs, and other inner content, your mind generates thoughts, reflections, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, and other mental activities that create a strong sense of self. “I think, therefore I am…”
  • Moods: Mood swings determine much more at work than most people realize—energy level, interpersonal presence, ability to focus, power to act, access to insight. Those ever-changing emotions that are felt throughout the physical body give you your unique moment-to-moment sense of emotive presence. They boost you up or drag you down, regardless of your work situation or demands.
  • Body Position: At any given moment, you are also constantly aware of inner bodily sensations and your internal sense of body shape and position in space. By changing your body position, or moving rather than holding still, you can change a great deal at work.

Each moment, your mind integrates these five awareness ingredients and generates your experience of being alive on this planet and engaged at work. Turn off the perceptual, emotive, and cognitive lights, and as far is you’re concerned experientially, you’re not here at all. When you go into deep sleep, this is what happens—you’re gone from the world. Perhaps you’ve also had the experience in a hospital of being given one of the new anesthetics such that the doctor turns a knob and you’re just… gone. Lights out.

When dealing with your team members and associates, it’s important to realize that at any given moment at work, each person on your team is having an experience involving one or more of these five ingredients. Your team members might be focusing on a memory and get temporarily lost entirely from the present moment. They might focus on an inner thought and not be aware of what’s happening around them in the office. They might focus on an upset mood, drift off into imaginations related to expressing their mood—and again, be lost from the present moment.

Where you focus your attention each moment determines your experience—and habit tends to drive focal attention. Therefore, a primary variable in awareness management will be a person’s ingrained focus-of-attention habits.

Managing this attention choice is the most important act that employees make. If they don’t focus on an important priority, it simply doesn’t get done. And if they focus with less than their full attention, or with a dull or moody quality of awareness, excellence is not likely to happen.

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