What is awareness?

Awareness is the capacity and the tendency to perceive with your senses in a way that is total and not merely intellectual or emotional.

Why awareness?

Awareness brings one to the stage of utter bliss where everything and every moment is extremely enjoyable. Even more enjoyable than sex!

Tips

1. Be conscious of your exhaled breath. Keep watching it.

2. See yourself as if you are not you, but another person. You will develop an inexplicable bond with that person.

3. See everything as if you are seeing it for the first time. Everything, including putting toothpaste on your toothbrush, tying the laces of your shoes, getting in an arguement with your collegue ... everything!

4. See everything as if you are seeing it for the last time, i.e., you will not get another opportunity to be with it again. So, be now!

5. Feel as if there is no ground below your feet and you are falling down endlessly into nothingness. After a successful continuous falling, the falling will get converted into flying through space.

6. Keep your body consciously balanced on both your hips equally whether standing or sitting. This exercise alone may lead to enlightenment itself as it has done with many practitioners especially in Tibet.

7. Listen to the sound of your voice as you speak. You will increase the passion and the clarity in your speech.

8. Listen to the sound of your actions as you do a thing. You will perform them impeccably.

9. Imagine getting out of your body and seeing yourself from outside.

10. Imagine yourself as being weightless and flying in the sky.

11. In the beginning of a real crisis, keep aware. Keeping aware means not getting swayed by the crisis indulgently but being conscious of yourself in the midst of the said crisis.

12. Continuously keep smelling the odors around you.

13. Keep aware of every touch you are making or a touch being made upon you.

14. Taste everything as if you are tasting it for the first time.

15. Taste everything as if you are tasting it for the last time.

16. Keep a track of your facial expression by imagining what they are like at the moment.

17. Keep a track of your body sensations.

18. While going to sleep, try to keep aware of the moment when you are neither awake nor asleep.

19. Keep track of the minutest of your thoughts. Generally thoughts keep coming to us unconsciously; thereby, inflating our unconscious even more. Shrink the unconscious by making as much of it conscious as possible.

20. Keep track of the minutest of your feelings.

21. Keep track of minutest of your actions.