How to make positive changes in your life (the changes you want, the changes that really make a difference) by expanding your self awareness and increasing your sense of self-empowerment.  Find out who you really are, achieve what you really want to with your life. Over 50 pages of information (all FREE to copy) This is the alternate Self-Awareness Website in the 2009 Growing Awareness Series* * Websites in the 2009 Growing Awareness Series www.changelifepower.com www.love-your-inner-child.com www.core-beliefs-balance.com www.growingaware.com.au www.growingaware.net and our special site about Healing Your Relationships Our Voice Dialogue flagship site is now www.voice-dialogue-inner-self-awareness.com If you are interested in Voice Dialogue training and Self Awareness groups in Queensland Australia you can check out the latest news on  www.voicedialogue-qld.asn.au

Core Belief and Self Awareness Workshops using Voice Dialogue - Brisbane Northside and Brisbane South-west; Gold Coast (Queensland) and Near North coast. - e-mail me nutting@growingaware.com for details.

Over 50 pages of information (all FREE to copy) on ways to make positive changes in your life (the changes you want, the changes that really make a difference) by expanding your self awareness and increasing your sense of self-empowerment. Discover what happens when you discuss what you are doing and thinking with your own inner protector characters, or you interview your inner selves*, meet and talk with your own sub-personalities, . It really doesn't matter what you call them or how you do it - it's easy to do and it works...   (see your invitation at the foot of each page  confirming FREE copying)    *These pages are based on a simplified, easy to follow (BUT alternative) explanation of the well known voice dialogue process and how and why it works so well. NEW!!  The book "Growing Awareness 2000" now available on CD - Special prices - click here for Table of Contents and full details Voice dialogue and self awareness work are easier to apply and understand when explained using an alternative story-telling approach (less psychology more practical and down-to-earth examples). This alternative approach is explored and explained on this Growing Awareness 2005-2007 website. (scroll down) See new postings and new links - newest pages are identified by their "2005" or "2007" extensions. All free to copy.    Our two new websites   Go to  Love your Inner child and there's a special page where your own inner child can leave messages and ask questions.- Go to http://www.love-your-inner-child.com/GIVE_YOUR_CHILD_A_CHANCE_TO_TALK.htm The site opened 31 October 2007 and already has over 1000 hits - It's all about your inner child. The wonderful part of you and me that never grows up. Interested?   Go to  Core belief Balance - opened 27 December 2007 - A new website devoted to balancing your hidden negative core beliefs and the clamps and blockages and over-reactions they cause in peoples lives If you would prefer to stay with the classic Voice Dialogue approach go to the original 1997 Growing Awareness website  http://www.growingaware.com.au
	Welcome to  Growing Awareness 2009 ABN   33 009 907 466 Contact us - Please note changes to our phone number,   postal address, location since 2001  (bottom of this page) I do enjoy reading your comments and feedback about our new approach. If it's OK to publish your comments on this site please include  your permission to do this in your e-mail to me at   nutting@growingaware.com.au Click here to read the Latest 2007-2008 Feedback and comments from around the World.	THIS SITE WILL INTEREST YOU IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT: Making positive changes in your life  the changes you want (the changes that will really make a difference) making changes the way you want to make them and at your own pace. Personal growth and freedom through self-awareness, increasing the number of choices you have in life. Making your relationships work. Partnering skills, developing intimacy, trust and stronger linkage.                                                                             Free Inner Self Profile Sheet For many years I have been using an Inner Self profile sheet that allows you to keep a visual record of your inner selves as you meet and talk with them. There are different places for different kinds of selves on the sheet according to their different energies or the different ways they do things to protect you. If you would like a free copy of the latest version of this Profile sheet (sent by e-mail) please send an email to john@growingaware.com  Please include the header FREE INNER SELF PROFILE (Sorry ....I have no idea why but Comcast will not permit me to reply to any Comcast e-mail address. Please give me an alternate reply address such as Yahoo or Hotmail)
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Because the dream did not come to reality in the way he expected, he rejected the dream. A new and more detailed explanation of Self Awareness work and the Inner Child. Which comes first? Understanding your Inner Child or Helping your inner child understand you?
Posted 6 Nov 2007

Boundaries are not “Rules” or “Walls” - Update_Aug_2006

Using boundaries is a natural and normal activity. Developing good boundaries is also part of growing your own self-awareness and self empowerment. One of the main reasons people don't do this already is because no one taught them how or gave them any examples to follow. If you grew up in a family environment where there were few if any boundaries, it is more than likely that you won't really know what these things are.  It's always harder to try something new if we feel we have no idea of how to do it. It's even harder if we tried to do it as a child and failed, even though the reason it didn't work might not have been our fault. 

Another reason is that as a child most of us were told that it was wrong, selfish, or shameful to be assertive or have our own boundaries. Many of us were severely punished for daring to try to set a boundary. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you having strong boundaries. It's just another example of the same situation we've talked about before, in our society most people don't want a kid to feel self-empowered or to be self-aware. Click here to read the whole article

A fable about the Characters in your inner Village and How Awareness Grows -
This is a story about a boy and a girl who live in a small village. Even though they were both in their late teens they had never met. But there were some things they had in common. For a start the each of them kept noticing how  people in their village found it hard to deal with life and its day-to-day problems. 
So much of what went on in the village was more complicated than it should have been. The boy and the girl each wondered why and wished there was something they could do to help. For example, many of the people who lived in the village got really worked up if things went wrong or if somebody didn't agree with them. They found it hard to see things clearly. To limit their confusion they usually did the same job the same way, day after day, rather than trying anything new or different.  It's true that repeating the same old pattern got the usual results just as they expected.  But all too often those results didn’t work as well as people would have liked.

What's this got to do with you and me and our self-awareness? - As this fable explains it's often like this with aspects of our daily lives when they are handled by our "inner villagers". (click here for the rest of the story)  As the boy and the girl begin climbing up Awareness Hill behind the village so much starts to become clear for the first time.

Choosing between personal and Impersonal channels (updated 6 December 2004) Everybody has a choice as to whether they communicate through their personal or impersonal channels. And everyone needs to know how to use each one at different times. It’s equally important to know when not to use each channel. Usually we switch automatically and this can lead to problems. Or we can get stuck on one channel not knowing how to switch to the other. Learning to use both channels consciously is not difficult.

Rules for the School of Life - (Revised 28 November 2004) 
1. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life.  Each day you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think your assignments are stupid and irrelevant but each one has a purpose that is special for you.

2. An assignment will be repeated until you have learned that lesson. Do  you find yourself experiencing the same (unpleasant) event again and again? One of your current learning projects is to discover whatever you need to do so it either stops happening or no longer affects you . There are another 9 rules like this click here,

The fable of the Two Explorers (Revised 14 November 2004)
Once there was a small band explorers who discovered a wonderful new land peopled by a number of  fascinating tribes which they named the "inner villagers". In time they learned the language of the inner villagers and were able to dialogue with them. From this they learned much about the land itself, the habits of the tribes and what went on in each of the local inner villages that made up the territory.

Bottom line issues (posted 22 August 2004)
One of the reasons for interviewing your inner protector characters (inner selves) is to learn from them about your bottom line or life issues and to be able to distinguish these from what may seem important but which turn out to be only symptoms pointing to the real issues.

Identifying a life issue starts when you notice a group of similar and repetitive problem patterns. You or someone you know keeps experiencing these same patterns again and again through life. If it's a bottom line issue it will keep coming up in different ways, in your conversation, how you see other people, what irritates you in others, what you like in other people. It will usually stand out in the kind of work you do and how you like that  work, the kind of films you enjoy, how you like to relax. Whatever you do, wherever you go there it is again. That's a life issue.

Your most powerful "life issues" are related to the problems that worry you most, but they may also be involved in some of your best solutions.

Addictive cycles - over medication and vulnerability    (posted Aug 10 2004)  It is normal for people to try to reduce their pain and emotional pain is no exception. A person experiencing deep emotional wounding or anxiety is extremely vulnerable and will do whatever they can to block it. When the helpful protector characters in your inner village (inner selves) run out of ways to reduce the pain and can no longer provide protection, the next thing is to try substances or processes from outside the village. At first these often seem to work almost miraculously, so the process is repeated more and more often. But sooner or later the treatment starts to lose its effectiveness.

 "Is it really safe for me to change?"      Please read this page first -
Making changes in your life using the methods described in these pages is great ,but only if you are ready to change. And that includes self assurance about change itself. It's better not to make changes until you feel really confident about them and their effect on your life. The  methods we describe here do work, but the changes can be fast and powerful. It's important to understand what is going to happen before you begin. Then you can change with confidence.

Power, control and individuality issues in relationships  

Choosing Between Personal and Impersonal Channels -  

Muddled Magic and the Little Trauma Witch -  

The troublesome ten percent

Four levels of Self Awareness and self empowerment

What is in in these Growing Awareness 2007 pages?  
To find out more about these alternate methods click on the linked pages below. 

1. "Is it really safe for me to change?"     (posted 28 July 2004)    Please read this page first -
Making changes in your life using the methods described in these pages is great ,but only if you are ready to change. And that includes self assurance about change itself. It's better not to make changes until you feel really confident about them and their effect on your life. The  methods we describe here do work, but the changes can be fast and powerful. It's important to understand what is going to happen before you begin. Then you can change with confidence.

3. Main Parts of your Inner Village

Growing Awareness and Classic Voice Dialogue - Similarities and Differences (updates and additions 21 February 2004)  How the terms used in Growing Awareness differ from Classic Voice Dialogue

4. Other Interesting Parts of your Inner Village

The Complex corner  added 23 February 2004

5. Simplified terms used in the alternate  Inner Village storytelling approach

6. Reasons behind the change from Classic Voice Dialogue to the simplified Inner Village storytelling approach (these pages may be of more interest to practicing facilitators)

Why tell stories rather than talk psychology? - Additions and amendments 23 February  2004 

Growing Awareness and Classic Voice Dialogue - Similarities and Differences Part 1- How the terms used in Growing Awareness pages differ from Classic Voice Dialogue  - Other differences  - Some New types of "opposite" characters that are not disowned Updated 21 February  2004 

Growing Awareness and Classic Voice Dialogue - Similarities and Differences Part 2- How the terms used in Growing Awareness pages differ from Classic Voice Dialogue  - Other differences  - Some New types of "opposite" characters that are not disowned Updated 21 February  2004 

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Introduction to working with Inner Mother and Inner Father

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FINDING OTHER FREE ARTICLES OF INTEREST

1. Normal Multiple Personalty states in Contrast with Dissociative Identity Disorder. There is a very significant difference between having many different inner selves or personality states within us (which can be normal and healthy or can cause some problems) and DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder (which used to be known as "Multiple Personality Disorder".) Media presenters often fail to appreciate this when they talk about personality issues. In fact they even tend to confuse DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder with Schizophrenia.

2. Some other recent articles (not included in the book "Growing Awareness" published March 2000) are also included on this website.   For a list of these articles click on Other Recent Articles 2004 

3. Earlier articles (not included in the book "Growing Awareness" published March 2000) are also included on this website.   For a list of these articles click on Other Past Articles 2000-2002

4. Miscellaneous articles including personal profile  John Bligh Nutting (personal details and photo) 

5. Bibliography - an extensive list of publications by many different authors (going back to the 1930's).   Models of Multiplicity Ego States and Multipersonality models. These  help trace the sources of ideas on inner self work, psychodrama, sub-personalities, voice dialogue ego states and much more

6. Other Articles Miscellaneous 2000-2003

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How to contact John Nutting

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Mail: Growing Awareness
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Profile: If you are curious enough to want to know a bit about me (John Nutting) my history, training and family background (a couple of photos) my dog and even a short voice recording you can click here.  

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