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Personal Empowerment: The Basics

Personal Empowerment is something that all of us chase, at least to some degree and to some extent. And yet, many people fail to understand what the concept really means. Many people chase personal empowerment from the outside. They read books, they attend classes, and they seek out people who make them feel better about themselves.

All of these activities are certainly positive and worthwhilebut maybe its time to start looking at what personal empowerment really means.

To truly find empowerment, you need to develop it within yourself. This, unfortunately, isnt achieved in a monumental, profound moment of enlightenment or a miraculous healing eventbut rather, is something that we live and demonstrate on a day-to-day basis. Its a process that takes time, dedication, hard work, and devotion.

The biggest challenge that we all face, when it comes to finding our own sense of empowerment and self-worth, is that were usually habitual in our self-judgement and self-criticism. We reject ourselves out of habit, not because we have real, rational reasons to do so.

Please dont misunderstandself-doubt and self-criticism arent always so easily explained. Sometimes, these issues are very deep-seated and complicated. But in the words of the famous Sean Covey, we become what we repeatedly do.

If you make an effort to live an empowered life, and wake up every morning with a sense of intentionality and dedication concerning this goal, then youll find yourself much more likely to be successful.

The hard, cold truth is that self-empowerment really needs to be self-taughtand we can only teach it to ourselves by becoming what we wish to be. This means that you need to visualize the you that you wish to be one dayand then create that person with your words and actions.

This doesnt mean that you pretend to be something youre not. It means that you habitually correct one negative behavior at a time, until the process becomes automatic. And when this happens, youll realize that the change wasnt an act. It was real, genuine, and effective.

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PD 004: Personal Awareness Group

Concepts of emotional health and effective interpersonal behavior. Lecture and group discussion will guide students on how to effectively deal with life situations and improve student success.

Focuses on specific strategies for achieving academic and personal success. Students come to understand motivation and learn how to identify and overcome self-defeating behaviors.

Limitation on Enrollment: Eligibility for EOPS/CARE Program required EOPS/CARE only. Orientation to acquaint students with campus, college procedures and policies, as well as programs. Graded Credit/No Credit.

Students clarify their educational objectives and develop the skills necessary to reach them. Topics include time management, reading and study skills, goal-setting, career planning, and communication skills.

Introduction to the campus and its resources for adults returning to school. Topics include study skills, time management and coping with the transition to being a student again. Graded Pass/No Pass.

Provides an overview of the American higher education system as well as an orientation to the college and its student support services. Students learn about cultural patterns and adjustment issues, US classroom culture and college resources that are available to provide ongoing academic support.

Introduction to the campus and its resources for first-time to college ESL students. Topics include study skills, time management, coping with the transition to being a student in the United States, and an introduction to SBCC educational programs.

Students assess interests, values, skills and personality traits, and learn skills to link up careers and college majors. Topics include career assessment, decision-making, researching careers and majors.

Designed to empower students to achieve academic and personal success. Strategies and success factors for single parent students. Addresses the need for developing good study habits, time management skills, and support systems. Students learn to identify and understand self-esteem and self-defeating behavior; develop strategies for change; and emphasize attitudes beneficial to achieving optimum academic performance.

Comprehensive approach to career planning. Exploration of interests, personality traits and values through career assessment inventories. Topics include choosing a major, educational planning, value clarification, skills analysis, decision-making and goal-setting. Job search skills include researching occupational information, on-site interviews, interviewing and resume writing.

Students develop the skills necessary to effectively manage their time, develop and set realistic goals, and improve their ability to overcome issues that cause procrastination.

Development of peer education skills around healthy lifestyle choices, with emphasis on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, HIV prevention, sexual health, relationships, self-esteem and stress management. Designed to enable students to participate in formal or informal campus, community or personal peer education and prevention programs. National Bacchus and Gamma Peer Education Certificate optional.

Learn and integrate effective coping strategies to promote self-awareness, personal wellness, academic success, and model these strategies, including managing symptoms of stress and other psychological conditions.

Concentration is critical in this digital age of multi-tasking. Stabilizing the mind and re-training it to focus attention and be aware of awareness can lead students towards clearer thinking, enhanced learning, satisfaction, creativity, more sustained balance, and mastery.

Mandatory course for all student-athletes participating in intercollegiate sports for the first time at SBCC. Students learn critical information on athletic eligibility and NCAA transfer requirements, and develop a long-term educational plan. Includes skills necessary for college success: time management, study skills and test-taking strategies.

Students clarify their educational objectives and develop the skills necessary to attain them. Topics include time management, reading and study skills, goal-setting health occupations, career planning, and communication skills.

Introduction to academic planning, leading to the completion of a comprehensive Student Education Plan (SEP). Students learn to incorporate the major design elements of an SEP by utilizing resources and educational planning software to identify educational requirements and appropriately balance a course schedule.

Introduction to educational planning which leads to the completion of a long-term Student Education Plan (SEP). F1 visa students will learn to incorporate the major design elements of an SEP by utilizing resources that identify educational requirements and appropriately balance a course schedule.

Introduction to educational planning which leads to the completion of a comprehensive Student Education Plan (SEP). STEM students will learn to incorporate major design elements of an SEP by utilizing resources that identify educational requirements and appropriately balance a course schedule.

Self-paced, individualized career planning course to include career assessment and testing, career counseling, independent career research. Students prepare a personal portfolio that includes short-term and future educational career plans and goals; and activities designed to achieve these goals. Course available through Internet assignments or through independent research conducted at the Career Center, with some class meetings required.

Individualized course to help students find better patterns for success in mathematics.

Designed to help new/first-time students understand the role of college, and to develop skills that promote academic persistence and personal adjustment.

This course focuses on the assessment of individuals strengths, interests, values, personality and abilities in the context of career and education planning. Students will improve decision making skills by exploring their own decision making styles and applying specific decision making models to their career planning process.

This class is designed to help students develop and implement a strategic career and job search plan. Students will learn about sources of occupational information and how to utilize this information in the career planning and job search process.

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Developing self awareness The 5 stages of awareness mastery

When I was young I remember listening to my elders promulgating that knowledge is power.

Learn, my child, they used to say, for knowledge makes you smart and smart people have a chance to thrive in this world we inhabit.

Their words sounded vague to my callow ears. What is the knowledge they are referring to? Knowledge of mathematics? Knowledge of physics? Knowledge of languages? Street knowledge? Knowledge of human relationships?

Unable to properly fathom their equivocal advice, I grew up to become a generalist. That is a person with a wide array of useful knowledge. Although I did complete my studies in Electrical Engineering and Business, I didnt choose to specialize in them. I preferred to use them as a stepping-stone to acquire more knowledge. Knowledge that could help me achieve generalist status.

I did that hoping that a generalist reality can grant me access to a huge network of information that will allow me to view reality from a holistic perspective. For I thought that this was the secret to decoding the hidden message of the knowledge is power adage. I thought that this was my only good chance of finally understanding.

I cant really say that I regret my decision. The generalist pathway urges you to delve into different topics and, eventually, try to develop an interdisciplinary approach when it comes to thinking. I started to think in systems and this mode of cognition led me to deeper states of consciousness that challenged the way I interpreted the world. I became more aware of my own existence, my own limitations, and my own potential.

And thats when it dawned on me.

The elders were right, but not right enough.

In their quest for knowledge, bewildered by its intimidating nature, they ignored the true essence of what knowledges purpose actually is.

Knowledge is indeed power. But the path from knowledge to power is not immediate. There is a succession of steps one needs to follow and it could be summarized in the following sequence:

Knowledge -> Awareness -> Control -> Power

Knowledge breeds awareness. That is the consumption of knowledge leads to a collection of wisdom nuggets that, when properly construed, can raise awareness. Awareness is the ability of the individual to make sense of oneself and, consequently, of the world around him. Once this process manifests itself, one is able to transition from a state of cluelessness and incompetence to a state of control and power. For power transpires when you focus on things you can control. And you can control only what you can understand what you are aware of.

So the imperative word here is not knowledge, but awareness.

Allowing oneself to embrace this word and immerse into the totality of its nucleus is akin to allowing oneself to become totally free. For awareness has always been the key to a life defined by clarity, intent, and cohesion.

Apropos, there is a path that one needs to follow in order to properly grasp what constitutes awareness and where its real potency lies. And this path I endeavor to lay out today.

In the following paragraphs, I will examine 5 stages one needs to cover in order to develop extreme self-awareness. For awareness does not develop overnight. It is a gradually evolving process that is predicated upon the willingness of the individual to battle through the obstacles encountered in every stage.

The major issue young people face and have always been facing is cluelessness and incompetence. Empirical investigation has led me to believe that the reason for that is twofold and has little to do with intelligence or experience.

The two major forces that enforce this circumstance are the education system and the development of our frontal cortex.

A brief history of how modern education came about (you can read the detailed summary here) reveals that from the 17th century onwards the purpose of school was to create better workers, not better humans. Employers in industry viewed school as a means to teach future employees the rules of punctuality, following directions, tolerance for long hours of tedious work, and a minimal ability to read and write. On top of that, as nations became more centralized, national leaders saw a great chance in schooling to lay the foundations for the facilitation of future patriots and soldiers.

In essence, the school was not a place where the child could enjoy a holistic education and develop a healthy personality. It was more like a prison where he or she would, eventually, lose his or her identity, become a virtual nonentity and blend into the uniformity of collectivism.

Prolific biologist Robert Sapolsky revealed in one of his lectures something groundbreaking: The frontal cortex is the last part of the brain to fully develop.

The red part is the prefrontal cortex Wikipedia

On average, the frontal cortex manages to completely mature at the age of 25. This astonishing finding postulates two things:

If we take into account these two factors and combine them with the proclivity of humans to, usually, choose the path of least resistance when it comes to action taking, we find ourselves in a very unfavorable situation. Developing self awareness under such circumstances becomes a far-fetched goal. We end up with a huge amount of the population feeling not only clueless about who they are but also lacking the necessary context that would empower them to discover their individual constitution.

Nonetheless, the first stage is possible to overcome, firstly if the individual understands his or her limitations and secondly by methodically accruing knowledge relevant to the alleviation of these limitations.

How to stop feeling clueless: Patience is key here and when coupled with an incessant tendency to question conventional wisdom, it can produce extremely interesting outcomes. My suggestion would be to delve into the fundamentals of personal growth and attempt to internalize them. Such fundamentals include: Meditation, working out, improving productivity, improving social skills, to name but a few. 30 Challenges 30 Days Zero Excuses is a great place to start.

The prominent maxim know thyself has been echoing through history since its first usage by Plato in his dialogues. There are at least six instances during which Plato employs the maxim, and in every one of them he does so in order to stress out the importance of self-discovery in the development of the individual.

Plato Wikipedia

Although the context in each instance is different, the rationale remains the same. A self-aware individual is a conscious individual. Individuals who cant partake in the process of self-exploration will systematically fall victim to their own lack of awareness and to the ramifications that such a state begets. Some of the ramifications include:

Essentially, a lack of self-awareness is the main source of dogmatism in society today. Sam Harris, during one of his podcasts, while examining why dogmatism can ruin a persons life, stated beautifully:

The state of being dogmatic is the state of believing in things strongly, despite an absence of evidence or even in the face of counter evidence. That is the state of having no error-correcting mechanisms in your worldview. Youre simply not available to reality and you will continually bump into hard objects wherever you go.

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Humans will always seek to belong and this lust for tribalism can often yield friction within society. Most people who cling to certain (usually extreme) ideologies do so because they havent sorted themselves out. The absence of a strong individual identity destabilizes the substrate of their being and they are constantly in the look for more stable worlds to grab onto. These stable worlds are often dogmatic worlds that reject certain aspects of reality in an attempt to deal successfully with its innately chaotic nature. Religions, political movements, cults, extremist groups, all fall in that category and are there to remind us what a lack of self-awareness can engender.

In a way, people who belong in these groups are manifestations of a persons inability to face the concept of the shadow as Carl Jung put it forth.

Carl Jung Wikipedia

The shadow is the unknown dark side of our personality. Dark because it is very obscure and also because we need to dig very deep within our psyche in order to discover it. It is a conglomeration of all our fears, desires and impulses like sexual lust, power strivings, selfishness, greed, envy, anger or rage, and due to its unenlightened nature it operates in a subconscious level. A person can never reach the state of self-actualization if they havent managed to face the shadow until they can understand it, deal with it, and eventually internalize it.

Plato also pointed out that understanding thyself, would also result to a greater understanding of the nature of a human being. Syllogistically, understanding oneself would enable a person to form an understanding of others as a result. Which is our next stage.

How to understand yourself: In order to understand yourself, first you need to understand your past and how your past affects your present and your future. The operative word here is past, but I use it to allude to both our past as individuals, but also to our past as species. From an individuals perspective, psychoanalysis is the most pertinent tool one can use to explore certain aspects of their personality. Major events in your past have played a critical role in shaping your persona. Going back to these events, facing them and creating associations with current ones can significantly raise self-understanding. From a species perspective, humans are a work of evolution in progress and our current state cant be fathomed if we dont examine closely the practices and habits of our ancestors and draw parallels to current behavioral patterns.

The complexity of our social fabric is an omnipresent conundrum across the span of our lives. We are egotistical creatures that perpetually try to balance individuality with togetherness. Usually, we fail dramatically in that attempt but it doesnt always need to be that way.

The way a person forms their understanding of social dynamics is fostered during childhood and depends largely on the way the upbringing functions. Within the household, a child can get a glimpse of how real society operates and adopt certain characteristics that will help him or her transition smoothly from the microcosm of his or her family to the wilderness of the real world.

Therein the child develops an intuitive ability to interact and cooperate with others. Hence most people make judgments about others based on intuition. Intuition is indeed a powerful skill but alone is not enough. It can offer a rough understanding of social patterns, but if you want to understand the mechanics deeply, you need to enhance your social repertoire with more skills.

In that respect, I am going to briefly touch upon three major areas one needs to be aware of:

Our perception is usually confined within the limits that our ego dictates. We are raised to think individually and not syllogistically. That process seriously hinders our capacity to understand and cooperate with fellow humans and our ability to form mutually beneficial connections suffers dramatically.

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It is the process that leads to a complete re-engineering of a persons worldview since it can offer them a completely new perspective on life.

Cultivating empathy is the first step into unweaving the mysterious entanglement that encompasses our social life.

Humans are evolved primates with an extremely sophisticated set of cognitive tools. The way, however, our social structures are formed rely more on power rather than sophistication. For years we have attempted to evolve our social edifice from a dominance hierarchy to a more egalitarian constitution. For years we have failed miserably to do so.

That reality is a result of an eclectic amalgamation of reasons such as cultural discrepancies, environmental influences, intelligence, tribalism, nepotism and a general lack of affinity towards forming collective views. It seems that, on average, our primitive mind tends to dominate our more rational one and the future doesnt look much promising in that respect.

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An Interview catching glorious moments of spontaneous, joyful and sincere exchanges between Osho and a member of the International Press.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

from Nietzsche's Nachlass, A. Dantotranslation.

Enemies of truth.-- Convictions are moredangerous enemies of truth than lies.

from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.483,R.J. Hollingdale transl.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.--Every word is a prejudice.

from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and hisShadow,s. 55, R.J. Hollingdale transl.

Man and things.-- Why does man not see things?He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 483, R.J.Hollingdale transl

Mystical explanations.--Mystical explanations are considered deep. Thetruth is that they are not even superficial.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.126,Walter Kaufmann transl.

Metaphysical world.-- It is true, there couldbe a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardlyto be disputed. We behold all things through the human head andcannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remainswhat of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

from Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human, s.9,R.J. Hollingdale transl.

Just beyond experience!-- Even great spiritshave only their five fingers breadth of experience - justbeyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space andstupidity begins.

from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 564, R.J.Hollingdale transl

What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors,metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of humanrelations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellishedpoetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm,canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions aboutwhich one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which areworn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost theirpictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for asyet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that itshould exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors -in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixedconvention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all...

'On truth and lie in an extra-moral sense,' TheViking Portable Nietzsche, p.46-7, Walter Kaufmann transl.

Truth.-- No one now dies of fatal truths:there are too many antidotes to them.

from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.516,R.J. Hollingdale transl.

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely hisirrefutable errors.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.265,Walter Kaufmann transl.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic,religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire,passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits ofillogical thinking, this world has gradually become somarvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it hasacquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the humanintellect that has made appearances appear and transported itserroneous basic conceptions into things.

from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.16,R.J. Hollingdale transl.

The reasons for which 'this' world has beencharacterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate itsreality; any other kind of reality is absolutelyindemonstrable.

from Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, ch.3,s.6, Walter Kaufmann transl.

The total character of the world, however, is in alleternity chaos--in the sense not of a lack of necessity but a lackof order, arrangement, form, beauty, wisdom, and whatever namesthere are for our aesthetic anthropomorphisms...Let us beware ofattributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: itis neither perfect nor beautiful, nor noble, nor does it wish tobecome any of these things; it does not by any means strive toimitate man... Let us beware of saying that there are laws innature. There are only necessities: there is nobody who commands,nobody who obeys, nobody who trespasses... But when will we ever bedone with our caution and care? When will all these shadows of Godcease to darken our minds? When will we complete our de-deificationof nature? When may we begin to "naturalize" humanity interms of a pure, newly discovered, newly redeemed nature?

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.109,Walter Kaufmann transl..

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which wecan live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects,motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faithnobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life isno argument. The conditions of life might include error.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.121,Walter Kaufmann transl..

Over immense periods of time the intellect producednothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helpedto preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these hadbetter luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny.Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: thatthere are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what itappears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me isalso good in itself.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.110,Walter Kaufmann transl..

Origin of the logical.-- How did logic comeinto existence in man's head? Certainly out of illogic, whose realmoriginally must have been immense. Innumerable beings who madeinferences in a way different from ours perished; for all that,their ways might have been truer. Those, for example, who did notknow how to find often enough what is "equal" as regards bothnourishment and hostile animals--those, in other words, whosubsumed things too slowly and cautiously--were favored with alesser probability of survival than those who guessed immediatelyupon encountering similar instances that they must be equal. Thedominant tendency, however, to treat as equal what is merelysimilar--an illogical tendency, for nothing is really equal--iswhat first created any basis for logic.

In order that the concept of substance couldoriginate--which is indispensible for logic although in thestrictest sense nothing real corresponds to it--it was likewisenecessary that for a long time one did not see or perceive thechanges in things. The beings that did not see so precisely had anadvantage over those who saw everything "in flux." At bottom, everyhigh degree of caution in making inferences and every skepticaltendency constitute a great danger for life. No living beings wouldhave survived if the opposite tendency--to affirm rather thansuspend judgement, to err and make up things rather thanwait, to assent rather than negate, to pass judgement rather thanbe just-- had not been bred to the point where it becameextraordinarily strong.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.111,Walter Kaufmann transl..

Cause and effect: such a duality probably neverexists; in truth we are confronted by a continuum out of which weisolate a couple of pieces, just as we perceive motion only asisolated points and then infer it without ever actually seeing it.The suddenness with which many effects stand out misleads us;actually, it is sudden only for us. In this moment of suddennessthere are an infinite number of processes which elude us. Anintellect that could see cause and effect as a continuum and a fluxand not, as we do, in terms of an arbitrary division anddismemberment, would repudiate the concept of cause and effect anddeny all conditionality.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.112,Walter Kaufmann transl..

To renounce belief in one's ego, to deny one's own"reality" -- what a triumph! not merely over the senses, overappearance, but a much higher kind of triumph, a violation andcruelty against reason -- a voluptuous pleasure that reachesits height when the ascetic self-contempt and self-mockery ofreason declares: "there is a realm of truth and being, butreason is excluded from it!"But precisely because we seek knowledge, let us not be ungratefulto such resolute reversals of accustomed perspectives andvaluations with which the spirit has, with apparent mischievousnessand futility, raged against itself for so long: to see differentlyin this way for once, to want to see differently, is nosmall discipline and preparation for its future "objectivity" --the latter understood not as "contemplation without interest"(which is a nonsensical absurdity), but as the ability tocontrol one's Pro and Con and to dispose of them, so that oneknows how to employ a variety of perspectives and affectiveinterpretations in the service of knowledge.Henceforth, my dear philosophers, let us be on guard against thedangerous old conceptual fiction that posited a "pure, will-less,painless, timeless knowing subject"; let us guard against thesnares of such contradictory concepts as "pure reason," absolutespirituality," "knowledge in itself": these always demand that weshould think of an eye that is completely unthinkable, an eyeturned in no particular direction, in which the active andinterpreting forces, through which alone seeing becomes seeingsomething, are supposed to be lacking; these always demandof the eye an absurdity and a nonsense. There is only aperspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and themore affects we allow to speak about one thing, themore eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing,the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our"objectivity," be. But to eliminate the will altogether, to suspendeach and every affect, supposing we were capable of this -- whatwould that mean but to castrate the intellect?

from Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals, sIII.12, Walter Kaufmann transl.

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