Thread: Are you sure you understand difference between awareness and alertness?

Originally Posted by AstralMango

Interesting read! For day time work, I ask myself questions like, "Where am I?" or, "What am I going to do next?" or, "What was I doing a while ago?" I think this would be considered self awareness, wouldn't you say?

Thank you for posting this! It's made me more aware of the difference.

Being aware is simply that you observe. Nothing to do with questiong allthough questions come when you learn something new. Just look at everything as if you trying to learn whats going on and you are beign aware. Its simply being more open. You never figure anything out if just think about things you need to just look around into your thoughts, emotions, sensations and your state of mind. While you are just looking you notice and learn. Distance yourself from your thought and try to see where they came from and why. Follow the pattern of your thinking and notice how you see visuals in your mind when you think. You dont have to figure anything out or do anything to be aware you just need to observe what you are experiencing.