Self-Awareness: Know Thy Self Program

By Oria Massa

The “Know Thy Self program” is a six-session course designed to help you reach your individual potential.
The “Know Thy Self program” concentrates on providing insights and practical techniques to assist you in reaching your potential. It is simple to understand and to follow.
The “Know Thy Self program” facilitates the release of stress, helps build your confidence, thereby enabling you to enjoy life to the fullest, in fact it helps you diminish your problems altogether. With various meditation techniques, this system was developed to facilitate the comprehension of what it means to learn, meditate, relax and learn to let go.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Apr 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664104532

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Socrates (469–399 bc)

Who Is Oria Massa?

Introduction

Welcome the Changes in Your Life

What Is Meditation?

Where Do You Do Meditation?

FIRST SESSION

How We Are

The Power of Positive Thoughts

Affirmations

Meditation

Breathing and Body Relaxation

It Is Absolutely Normal to Have Thoughts

Your Special Symbol Visualisation

Laws of the Universe

Meditation

Visualisations

Your Personal Task for the First Session

Commitment

Focusing on Your Personal Goals

What Would You Like to Change?

What Would You Like to Add in Your Life?

What Would You Like to Let Go?

Make Your Own Affirmation Now

SECOND SESSION

Exercise to Tune Feeling

Your Personal Plan

Thoughts Tell Your Body How to Respond

Creating Your Inner Sanctuary

Starting Your Guidance

Meditation

Create Your Inner Sanctuary

Your Inner Sanctuary

Turning Stumbling Obstacles into Stepping Stones

The Dark Side of You

Self-Talk

An Exercise to Help You See the Effect of Your Own Self-Talk

Record Your Self-Talk

Self-Talk

How Are You Affected with What Other People Are Saying to You?

You Need to Find Your Gentle Witness

Happiness on Hold

Your Personal Task for the Second Session

Commitment

Writing Second Session Experiences

Pause for Reflections

Make Your Own Affirmation Now

THIRD SESSION

Your Personal Plan

Meditation

Begin to Turn It Around

Examining Your Blocks

Your New Positive Image That You Would Like to Be

Reasons That Block You from Achieving This Goal

The Power of Visualisation

Begin a List for Change

Meditation

Interview Meditation

Affirmations

Meditation

Learn to Let Go

Your Personal Task for the Third Session

Commitment

Observations

Writing Third Session Experiences

Pause for Reflections

Make Your Own Affirmation Now

FOURTH SESSION

Your Personal Plan

Take Five Minutes

Take Five Minutes

Program Your Personal Clock for the Morning

When Meditation Isn’t Going Well

Meditation

Find Your Inner Guide

Expanding Your Comfort Zone

What Do You Want?

Meditation

Meditation for Clearing and Unblocking

Wish List—Twenty-One-Day Exercise

Your Personal Task for the Fourth Session

Commitment

Writing Fourth Session Experiences

Make Your Own Affirmation Now

FIFTH SESSION

Your Personal Plan

Forgiveness

The Root of the Word Forgive Is to Let Go

All Diseases Come from a State of Unforgiveness

Forgiveness Exercise

Affirmations for Forgiveness

Low Self-Esteem

A Fun Way to End Negative Thinking

Meditation

God Bag Visualisation

Back to Reality

Your Personal Task for the Fifth Session

Commitment

Writing Fifth Session Experiences

Pause for Reflections

Make Your Own Affirmation Now

SIXTH SESSION

Your Personal Plan

Meditation

Doors to the Past and the Future

Balance

Affirmations for Changes

Your Personal Task for the Sixth Session

Writing Sixth Session Experiences

Make Your Own Affirmation Now

Sixth Session and Checklist

The Ending That Is the Beginning

Exercise

Acknowledgements

I wish to express my gratitude to my masters, students, clients, family, and friends from whom I have learned so much over the years. The pursuit of self-discovery is both a shared and solitary journey and one I know we have all benefited from. I thank you all from my heart.

I would like to thank Xlibris the editor, for working gently with my book.

The book is still very much me but flows all the better with her assistance.

My gratitude to Daniela Massa for supporting me with her continuous advice and strength and for working together in this endeavour and for those times spent assembling the Know Thy Self program together.

Thanks to Elaine Scott for her emotional strength, courage, and support in some of my darkest moments.

Finally, I wish to express my warmest love and affection to my daughter Daniela, as this book has been a joint effort.

Special thanks to my friends and family for their continuous support.

Thank you all so much!

Oria Massa

Socrates  (469–399 bc)

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His work and teaching are an inspiration to myself and that which I endeavour to pass on to my students.

Socrates (470–399 BC) is a Greek philosopher who profoundly affected Western philosophy through his influence on Plato.

Born in Athens—the son of Sophroniscus, a sculptor, and Phaenarete, a midwife—he received the regular elementary education in literature, music, and gymnastics.

Later the familiarised himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists, the speculations of the Ionian philosophers, and the general culture of Periclean Athens. Initially, Socrates followed the craft of his father; according to a former tradition, he executed a statue group of the three Graces, which stood at the entrance to the Acropolis until the second century AD. In the Peloponnesian War with Sparta, he served as an infantryman with conspicuous bravery at the Battles of Potidaea in 432–430 BC, Delium in 424 BC, and Amphipolis in 422 BC.

Socrates believed in the superiority of argument over writing and therefore spent the greater part of his mature life in the marketplace and public places of Athens, engaging in dialogue and argument with anyone who would listen or who would submit to interrogation. Socrates was reported as unattractive in appearance and short of stature but was also extremely hardy and self-controlled. He enjoyed life immensely and achieved social popularity because of this ready wit and a keen sense of humour that was completely devoid of satire and cynicism.

Socrates was sentenced to death by poising in 399 BC, but his voice still echoes: ‘Know Thy Self.’

The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose—the pursuit of truth. Thus, his willingness to call everything into question and his determination to accept nothing less than an adequate account of the nature of things make him the first clear exponent of critical philosophy.

Although he was well known during his own time for his conversational skills and public teaching, Socrates wrote nothing, so we are dependent upon his students (especially students and Plato) for any detailed knowledge of his methods and results. The trouble is that Plato was himself a philosopher who often injected his own theories into the dialogues he presented to the world as discussions between Socrates and other famous figures of the day. Nevertheless, it is usually assumed that at least the early dialogues of Plato provide a (fairly) accurate representation of Socrates himself.

Thus, an application of careful techniques of reasoning results in genuine (if negative) progress in the resolution of a philosophical issue. Socrates’s method of insistent questioning at least helps us eliminate one bad answer to a serious question. At most, it points us towards a significant degree of intellectual independence. The character of Euthyphro, however, seems unaffected by the entire process, leaving the scene at the end of the dialogue no less self-confident than he had been at its outset.

The use of Socratic methods, even when they clearly result in a rational victory, may not produce genuine conviction in those to whom they are applied.

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good about yourself and be able to keep this image of yourself in your subconscious.

Who Is Oria Massa?

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Oria Massa was born in Italy and emigrated to Australia with her parents in the early ’70s in the middle of her studies, which left her torn from her own land and language into the unknown country with new people and new faces. Not understanding the language, she found it was hard to adjust, and this had made her more determined to find herself, becoming well qualified to lead people on their journeys of self-discovery and improvement.

Emulating her achievement in psychology, she continued studying extensively the broader issues of personal growth and enlightenment in science, and now as a successful coach and highly sought-after counsellor, Oria made her incredible discoveries while privately conducting one-on-one personal breakthrough sessions.

She recognised the great potential of these techniques and over the years has expanded and refined them.

Her initial discoveries were combined with research from some of the world’s greatest thinkers, including Socrates and Albert Einstein.

Additional research in the fields of neurophysics, quantum physics, and neurolinguistic programming (NLP) helped Oria create a step-by-step program which is