How to be more self-aware
Camilla Dallerup reveals the life tools you never knew you needed
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Camilla Dallerup may have once been best known as a ballroom dancer with a stint on Strictly Come Dancing spanning four years, but after hanging up her dancing shoes, she’s now a big name on the wellness scene. As a life coach, hypnotherapist and meditation teacher, she shares her knowledge on self-care and self-love in her latest book - It’s Not You, It’s Me.
When we raise our self-awareness - I think of it as becoming awake - we are able to notice negative behaviours and patterns we repeat that we would like to improve on. We can bring them to our conscious mind. According to scientist, Dr Bruce Lipton, your life is run by your subconscious mind 95 per cent of the time and what is in our subconscious has been there since the first six years of our lives so it’s akin to having a child run our lives 95 per cent of the time. That is exactly how it can feel at times, especially when we get triggered. As adults we realise that some of those old patterns created in our childhood are not aligned with how we want to think, behave and react now.