Achieving higher awareness 

Higher awareness gives us better ability to understand our experiences and why many events are happening to us.

We can always look and try to understand things from higher and higher perspective. We can always improve our understanding how it fits into the bigger picture. And how the bigger picture fits into an even bigger picture.

The more we raise our awareness, the bigger and clearer picture we can see. Because everything is ultimately connected with everything, there is no end to how high we can climb... The more we raise our awareness, the wiser we are and the more peaceful and accepting we get.

When are we present and when not? 

We are “not really here” when our mind is in the past or in the future, including when we worry and fear, or simply when we are withdrawn from here we are not at present. When people are not present enough, they get into various mental states and experience various emotions without realizing it. This is more common than you think.

The more we do things with our heart, the more present we are. Remember that all the past, the future potential and many more can be accessed in the present moment... We only live in the present moment! Every moment we experienced in the past or will experience in the future, we experience in the present moment... So the more present we are, the more fully we really live.

People make lots of choices and do lots of things that they are not fully aware of. When we become more aware of our own choices and actions at present, we can take more responsibility for them and for their impact. We can use them more effectively to create the reality we desire...

How to develop higher awareness and become more present?

There are a few essential things we need to do to develop higher awareness and become more present:

-Having strong intention to have higher awareness and be very present.

-Observing, feeling and creatively thinking from a higher standpoint / “standing back”. Being very alert and aware of our surrounding and having subtle body awareness.

-Having a clear mind. A mind free from clutter like busy and uncontrollable thoughts, resistances and attachments, fears and worries.  Not talking to ourselves in our mind and instead observing, feeling and sensing. In those moments when your mind will be fully clear, you will start feeling silence and peace inside you. This is precious, you are getting closer to your true self and Higher Self.

Overcoming negative emotions and solving problems with higher awareness

People experience various new unhappy emotions during “every-day dramas” that life brings. By stepping back and observing self and the situation from a higher perspective in these moments, we raise ourselves above the emotions, above the dramatic situation. And when we observe everything at this higher level, the emotions as well as the drama become less intense. We are no longer “stuck” in the drama...

Secondly, we get in a better position to understand the reasons for us feeling the emotion in the first place.

Additionally, seeing, feeling and creatively thinking from a higher level, we can solve many problems & challenges that we could not solve before. This is because good solutions to many problems are at a higher level than the problem itself. The higher level, the better the solution...  Also remember that there are no problems that don’t have solutions. Why? Problems and their solutions are pairs of opposites in the dualistic world....

Day to day benefits of being present and having higher awareness

Becoming more present and developing higher awareness brings along many other benefits that we can make most of during day to day. Let me list some.
Interestingly our six senses sharpen and we start being aware of so much more around us than other people. This should help us communicate and listen more effectively and understand people better by being be more aware of their emotions, body language, intentions behind their words & actions, their views, beliefs & values. And this will help us not to get affected by people’s behaviour, their negative emotions and everyday life dramas that these create.

Naturally, we also become more aware of our own mental states and negative emotions that we used to experience not knowingly. Our thinking should become clearer, more succinct, focused and to the point.
 
We should become more creative and improve our ability to do and observe more things at the same time. Not only be fully aware of every mouthful when we are eating and reading at the same time ?, but we may eventually become a “multi-tasking expert” at work, in running the household and so on.

We may improve in sports, which often forces us to be very present. We may also develop some other characteristics which come along with spiritual awakening, such as stronger ability to create desired reality.

The power of presence 

The more present we become, the more powerful our presence will be and the more people will notice it.

Through increased presence and higher awareness we reach higher levels of consciousness, connect with higher parts of ourselves and so activate higher intelligence within us, like our intuition. This higher intelligence is beyond thought and will help us to know and feel things rather than having to think about them.

We increase the consciousness of our body by increasing our body awareness.  As we increase our body’s consciousness, we strengthen our immune system, we slow down our aging and achieve other health improvements. With the power of your  presence You can find out we are so connected with our body.

Describing Present Moment : How did you feel when a child looked deeply into your eyes?
When a small child looked for a while directly into your eyes, intensely and deeply but peacefully. A while which felt like eternity. And you may have felt in that moment like the child was scanning the whole of you. The child looked right into your soul and somehow understood how you are feeling, what is on your mind, your strengths and weaknesses...

People will subconsciously feel our strong presence and they will react to it in their own way.