Raising Awareness In Daily Life

[Mondsee]

Does someone here practice raising awareness in your day to day? Like for example you're cooking, driving somewhere or taking a shower and you work on raising awareness...

If you do, could you share a little bit of your method and experience?

I don't know if I should focus on the most salient phenomenon, or maybe in the must subtle one, I'm not sure if I should pick just one and entirely dedicate to observe that, or if I should change my focus from one sensation to another.

Which are the things you like to focus on?

[Max_V]

I like to focus on my breath and the pressure on my feet when I'm walking. 

When I'm in the shower, first I listen to the sounds, then I feel the warmth ( or coldness, depends on the shower) from the water. Then I try and feel into my body, and notice tempertures. Feel the sensations of comfort and discomfort.

You can literally focus on anything that grabs your attention but I think it is important to have something that grounds you in awareness, like your breath or feeling into the body.

 

 

[Shanmugam]

The practice that I did was to actually observe the thought process.. The key  here is to stop being the doer.. Don't try to think a thought yourself, but let the thought arise by itself.. No controlling, no directing, no judging and don't get lost in thoughts..

Mindfulness essentially means being open to whatever arises in your consciousness and  be a non judgmental witness to it. It applies to all thoughts and emotions that arise in your consciousness.  It worked out very well for me and I went through an awakening in 2014 that shifted my reality altogether. I shifted  from the egoic self to the witnessing self permanently.

Watching the breath is just the beginning. But watching the whole content of consciousness moment to moment helps you to drop all identifications and the sense of separation from the world.