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[Audio] Yogic Self-Awareness Assessment Following is a Self-Awareness Assessment outline. Our approach to teaching and training at Abhyasa Ashram is one of coaching in one-to-one or small group sessions ( satsang). The purpose of coaching sessions on the Self-Assessment outline is to help you learn how to self assess. The Self-Assessment is truly intended to be an assessment by yourself of yourself. The coach is not here to analyze you or diagnose you like a typical medical or psychological assessment might be done. It is your personal exploration of your own current state of life and being. The coach has done this before and is here to facilitate your own introspection and observation. The items of self-awareness listed below are from the perspective of yoga as seen through the tradition. By increasing self-awareness one gradually comes to see that these are not who we really are, which leads to the realization of the witness of these, the true Self, Atman. What to look for in each area of self-assessment For each of the areas of self-assessment, have the following orientations of what to look for: • What am I doing well that I need to continue doing? • What am I doing that I need to do more of? • What am I doing that I need to reduce or stop doing entirely? • What am I not doing that I need to start doing? • In what way does this relate to my current situation? • How might I plan with this in relation to my future situation? Frequency of Self-Assessments • Initial Self-Assessment with coach • Ongoing Self-Assessment and training • Monthly scanning Self-Assessment • Quarterly complete Self-Assessment and needs analysis • Annual thorough Self-Assessment with coach Print out the Contents and Notes page to use for making current notes of your selfassessment. Wherever there are points that draw your attention, for which you have some need to do something, change something, etc., then circle that item and make your note in the space below. The remaining pages of this document describe the individual Self-Assessment items. Initially, this may seem complex with lots of jargon to memorize. Rather quickly, however, it becomes natural to witness these aspects of your being. Gradually, you come to realize the one who is observing these various aspects of our self-structure ( antahkarana, or innerinstrument). This leads to the doorway of deep meditation and contemplation. Yogic Self-Awareness Assessment — Abhyasa Ashram self-awareness-assessment- 120204.pages Page 1 of 12.