Thread: All day Awareness? Questions, need help :)

If you find this interesting and fun to do I guess this would be effectve for you.

But I would just like to make it clear what awareness is and what it's not.

If you walk outside and see a tree or a bird but at the same time you are thinking "I wonder if will be late for school", "Hmm did I locked the door?" or even "Oh look at that tree there is a bird, I wonder what kind of bird it is. It might be a blackbird. Yeah it's definitely a blackbird I remember that from that documentary the other day."

This is not to be present or aware!

Because you are by then in your head, analyzing and judging and therefore not in the now.

To describe the feeling of how it feels to be present is probably as difficult as describing how it feels to be lucid to someone who hasn't experienced it.

So something that you can do to get a an idea of it, is to just focus on your breath instead of the thoughts and at the same time experience the things around you.

But if you truly want to feel how it is like to be present I suggest you try meditation.

Because the whole point of meditation is to let go of thoughts and just be in the moment, it truly feels amazing, like being a child without a worry again.

To analyze your experiences and see if you are dreaming or not can be an effective method, but in my experience just being present of the moment itself is enough.

Because the present and the now is our default state.

Here is a good meditation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5fO8jE7mc

I don't want to confuse you, just do whatever you find works best. But what I am trying to say is that the less you think of the moment and the more you ARE in the moment the more aware you are.

Sweet dreams!