How to Be More Aware

 

Having gone through major depression myself, I've made it a mission to continually seek peace. I've now come to value a life founded on peace and stability grounded upon truth rather than a life with endless fluctuations of highs and lows grounded on delusional perceptions. I believe this new-found lifestyle is a happier life, and I wish that more and more people would live this way. It could be quite fun to realize fully and truthfully all the given "rules" of this game of life and strategically navigate your way through success. The challenge for me now is - how can I share this wonderful lifestyle with others? Are there words to explain any of it at all?

Perhaps there isn't any way I can formalize a set of words and form them into a series of paragraphs to get you living more peacefully. But I can convey an idea that would at least point you in the right direction. From there you have the privilege to embark on your own journey to realize your own truth. Maybe we will come to the same conclusion, maybe not.

I'm talking about complete awareness, or rather to be as aware as possible. Most of us are aware of ourselves to a certain degree; we know we need to make money to buy food and shelter or who friends and families are and who are not. However, I'm talking about going much further than that. I'm talking about being aware, as much as possible, how your surroundings work, how your body works, and even how mind works.

See as I've mentioned before life is nothing more than just an intricate set of patterns - a game - a dance. I assume this needs no further explanation since we are at point in time now where most of us are aware of this. Just like in any game, if you are completely aware of the given rules and the tools you have to complete a level, with enough persistence and practice you will eventually reach the end. Life is the "rules" and you are the tools. It's only logical to use you, the tools, to completely master the "rules".

So here are a couple of things you can do to work on those three different types of awareness to get you on a path on living a more peaceful life:

Surrounding Awareness


This is what we refer to as intelligence. A person with good surrounding awareness we label as smart. They have a more finely tuned sense of how their surrounding works. So to exercise this type of awareness is to simply seek education. You don't have to go to Harvard to earn a piece of paper with fancy ink that signifies you're "educated", simply reading and sparking your curiosity on provocative subjects that encourages you to seek more and more education grounded upon logical perceptions is good.

Physical Self Awareness

This type of awareness is developed more by experience. People with a good amount of life experience have very good idea of what they are capable of. So I suggest to be bold and jump on opportunities to experience new things in life. The best thing about this is that there are no efforts to be exerted. Simply jumping on board and seeing where it takes you is where most of the exercise take place anyways. You might even enjoy the journey.

Mind Awareness

This is what I want to explain more in detail than the first two. This is because most people are not even aware that there is such a thing as mind awareness. It's important to know that mind awareness is critical if you intend to enjoy life to the fullest.
Mind awareness is to be aware completely of your thought processes. How they work, what triggers specific thought process, and how you can control them.
Unlike the first two the method to exercise this awareness is not set. Some may say embark in long daily meditation routines or live in a Buddhism temple. But I believe I've got a good method to at least get you started.

Written in The Power of the Now by Eckhart Tolle, in one of his meditation techniques he emphasizes the importance of identifying the self. To think of yourself as an entity that embodies you but not completely you. Observe how this entity thinks and you will strip it of it's self imposed drama and learn to see it for just it.

This is how you can exercise mind awareness. To observe how your mind thinks, just observe. If you do this you will find that your mind thinks in a harmonious and predictable patterns and more often than not it is not in sync with it's surroundings. Once you understand the difference between your thoughts and it's surroundings (and you can only achieve this by being an observer of your thoughts) then you will know how to make it in sync with it's surroundings so that you will just flow with the current of life rather than resist them.

Conclusion

So here are a few tips on how to be more aware. If you'd like to share some other methods to exercise them, feel free to do so down below in the comment section.