In Part 2 of my interview with Theresa Vigarino on Growing in Awareness, we sink our teeth into some big issues around spirituality, belief-systems, connection and identity. The conclusion we came to is that your identity is not wrapped in the external factors of your life— your circumstances, nor the things that have been done to you. Awareness is about understanding yourself in relation to everyone else but it is also about understanding your place in the universe as well. You have the ability then to take that awareness to a new level and invite forgiveness, joy and love into your life. This will help you better connect with others both in business and life and let go of the things that hold you back.

Highlights
-We wrap up our identify with what we have achieved. We use all of these outside, external things to create our identity, when, in fact, that’s all just false.
-The ultimate awareness is self-actualisation. When you become so aware of the divine inside of us, that’s our true identity.
-When we do we realise there’s no separation between you and me. We all come from the same place and are made from the same stuff.
-When you realise we’re all connected, we have more empathy.
-We spend so much time dwelling on how we’re different. Every person on earth has emotional wounds they are trying to overcome.
-The tendency to blame is what we’ve been brought up with.
-Mentions Victor Frankl
-The bridge to this awareness is in our mind.
-Where we stay trapped and suffering is in the invisible boxes in our mind.
-When I changed how I felt about myself I even changed how I felt God viewed me
-The journey is the destination and it’s about adopting a new way of being
-The revelations in our lives help us move forward.
-In the Aha moments you feel this little moment of joy physically! You feel that elation and yet it’s still there. That is the way to experience deep inner peace and knowingness.
-There’s no greater way to acknowledge our lives than to live a life of joy.
-In those moments that we get triggered, that is the moment you create the new one.
-Writing down the new belief is very important neuro-scientifically. It will help create new neuro-pathways.
-Really, we’re a work in progress. Our job individually is to really become the full expression of the greatness that can come through us but we can’t do that if we have limiting self-beliefs.
-It’s such a waste not to live up to your potential.

**Mentions**
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
Victor Frankl

Show notes: http://yourbrilliantuncareer.com/grow-in-awareness-pt-2/