What are the disadvantages of self-awareness?

          What are the disadvantages of self-awareness?

A. If you are talking about SELF-awareness, meaning one is awake to one’s own inner SELF — the source of one’s own creativity and intelligence — then the ‘disadvantages’ are several.

• One can never go back to the “ignorance is ‘bliss’” argument because SELF- ignorance will be gone for good. You discover that the SELF is the real source of bliss. The old argument was for the sake of solace in not having the bliss of the SELF.
• There are not so many in the world who can relate to what you are experiencing because most of the world will not have a clue what you are going through psychologically. The world may think YOU are deluded when the opposite is the reality. And if YOU don’t understand what is going on, it can be very confusing.
• It becomes more difficult to find others with knowledge about what you are going through psychologically because the “normal” has been left behind. One has entered the realm of the natural. Few live naturally whereas the norm is “normal.” You won’t seem so normal anymore.
• The more advanced one grows in higher states of consciousness, it can seem rather lonely without others also living higher states to relate. Much of the world is crazy people running around in fear over illusions that you come to recognize as such, but it’s hard to convince those caught up in their illusions and dreams that it’s such.
• You will come to think with your heart and feel with your mind. Conscience and humility meld with intellect and act as one. It becomes very painful to try to be mean, dishonest, greedy, crude, rude, arrogant, callous, criminal, small-minded, petty, and all other negative attitudes. This is because it will literally hurt the mind/heart relationship to do so whereas before you had less of a connection, even violated it freely.
• You will have to be more careful about what you tell others because people may recognize something special and begin to look up to you.
• One’s priorities change, becoming in tune with natural law
• As purity increases, it can attract more negativity. People have been crucified for not being careful.
• Magic tricks can be hilarious to watch.

However, the disadvantages are far outweighed by the advantages of adaptability, stability, integration and 24 hour bliss. Certainly not deal-breakers

B. The negative side is when you believe you are self-aware, you believe in a lie.

I can compare it to a phantom feeling in a missing limb. E.g. some people with missing leg can feel it as if it was still there. But if they tried walking on that leg, they would fall on their face.

The feeling of being self-aware is like that. There is a sensation. There is a belief that this sensation means it is an “awareness of self”.

But where is the self itself? ;)

It's nowhere to be found, just as that phantom leg. There is only a feeling, but no thing that it presumably refers to.

And reliance on this feeling of non-existent self is like walking on a non-existent leg. By doing that we trip and fall on our faces all the time, living a life of suffering, fear and worry as a result.

The only thing you are aware of is the feeling of being self-aware. There is no “self” behind it. Only the feeling.

C. I’m assuming by self aware you mean in touch with your deeper self and not self obsessed types.

When you are self aware, you avoid drama. You avoid gossips, pulling people down, toxic people, melodrama, small talks about other people. You mind your own business basically and have lot of acceptance and love. Now I’m not judging but majority of the crowd is doing the rest of it. Thus, you don’t want to be close friends with a lot of people end up having a very small circle of friends. Not that you mind it but sometimes you wish more people of same wavelength would be around.

Thus, when you are self aware, you will mostly be alone. If you fall in love with being alone (I do), it will be not be lonely anymore, it will be a constructive period of you having the best time of your day and building skills.