What Is Awareness?
Apr 24, 2025🌿 Awareness Is the Art of Noticing
Awareness is the act of observing what is happening — right now — in your body, your environment, and your mind.
It doesn’t judge.
It doesn’t fix.
It simply notices.
🌀 Where Do We Live?
Most of the time, we live inside thought:
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Inside memory
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Inside planning
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Inside belief or worry
Thought is where we spend most of our lives, often without realizing it.
Awareness is the invitation to return — not to the idea of the moment — but to the moment itself.
👁 Try This Now
“Now I am aware of…”
(Fill in the blank a number of times)
Say it out loud or in your mind.
Complete the sentence with what you notice — a sensation, a sound, a breath, a thought.
This is the beginning of the Awareness Continuum — a gentle practice of tuning in to what’s actually here.
🧘 Awareness Is Freedom
When you become aware of something — without judgment — it begins to dissolve.
You’re no longer fused with it.
You’re no longer inside the thought, the emotion, or the identity.
You’re observing it from awareness.
And from that space, freedom arises.
🌱 Awareness Is Not a Thing — It’s a Way of Being
It’s not something you “get.”
It’s something you practice.
With time, awareness becomes less of a technique and more of a way of life.
It touches everything you do — from eating and moving to relating and forgiving.
✨ Want to Explore Awareness in Daily Life?
Here are three simple, self-paced courses I’ve created to support you:
🔹 Awareness Through Movement
Reconnect with your body through gentle Feldenkrais-based movement.
🔹 Awareness Through Eating
A 21-day journey into how you digest not only food, but life.
🔹 Awareness and Forgiveness
Learn to release judgment and return to presence.
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