The world's occurrences were all result of man's collective consciousness, whatever we perceived today as part of our reality is a total product of how we create our world as a result of our individual perception about who we are in relation to our environment.
On individual level, man's self consciousness is his total emotional and mental awareness about himself and everything that surrounds him. Self awareness is the state of being aware which may directly related to mental level of knowing things, also termed as "knowledge about himself.
When we say knowledge about himself, it is far different from saying "concept of himself," because knowledge could be a belief system based on learned probable facts whether physical or non-physical, that can be altered when supporting proofs is no longer relevant to what it claims for some reason. While concept is already an accepted reality about himself which has been believed to be true and is no longer questionable in nature.
This is the main idea of saying that self consciousness, which is the only governing factor that affects how human being creates reality, is his total concept of himself with regards to anything in his environment.
In a bit shallow view about self consciousness, it could be considered as an act of being wary about himself or herself. How a person may look, act, and appear which might always be subjected to other people's judgment or criticism. That is how self consciousness is defined by many as commonly accepted belief of the majority.
However, self consciousness in a much deeper sense refers to a persons knowing of his or herself according to his or her self image which is the foundation of person's thoughts, behavior and attitude. It was designed by a person's experiences, upbringing, and all environmental and social influences.
Therefore, self consciousness is unique on every persons view, while consciousness itself in general encompasses the whole thing that is occurring in a person's life being alive. Self awareness on the other hand is limited to what and who aspect of personality that a person is being aware of about himself.
To better understand this, we need to pay attention on the two divisions of human mind which is the basic rule of understanding consciousness and related subjects. It has been said that humans are having the conscious mind or the thinking and reasoning mind, and the other one is the subconscious which is the unconscious part of ourself.
Everything that we know mentally is occurring within the premise of our conscious mind which is in the level of awareness, while emotional responses regardless of the "what, who and why" matters occurs beyond the realm of our conscious mind.
It occurs from the realm of our subconscious,as we all know that emotion emanates from the heart not from the head. If awareness is only in the conscious mind, consciousness covers the whole thing from the thought that happens in the conscious mind, as well as the emotion that occurs in the subconscious mind.
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