Awareness, Awareness, Awareness

Waking Up to the Truth Beneath the Noise

There are words that tickle the surface of understanding—and then there are words that shatter illusions. Awareness is one of those words. Simple, yet seismic.

Say it with me:
Awareness. Awareness. Awareness.
Not once, but three times. Not for emphasis, but for anchoring.
Because this isn’t just a concept—it’s the compass, the medicine, the mirror, and the key.

What Is Awareness?

Awareness is not thinking.
It’s not analyzing.
It’s not labeling, fixing, planning, or avoiding.

Awareness is the silent witnessing that happens beneath the noise.
It is the presence that observes your experience without merging with it.
It is you—before the world told you who to be.

As Anthony de Mello so boldly puts it in Awareness: most of us are asleep. Not metaphorically, but spiritually sedated. We are hypnotized by our roles, identities, traumas, goals, titles, and wounds. We spend years building walls and call them homes. We collect beliefs like souvenirs, forgetting they aren’t us. We chase success and love, not knowing we're already whole.

And then, in one holy breath, we notice.
That noticing—that moment you see yourself seeing—that’s awareness.

Why Awareness Matters

In the teachings of Dr. David Hawkins, awareness is the prerequisite for liberation. He writes,

“You can’t lose awareness. You can only lose touch with it.”

Awareness is not something you acquire—it’s something you remember. And in that remembrance, suffering softens. Not because your life becomes perfect, but because you stop resisting what is. The war ends when you stop fighting reality.

When we are unaware, our pain becomes identity.
When we are aware, pain becomes information.

Imagine this:

• You feel triggered—but instead of lashing out or numbing, you watch the fire rise inside you.

• You feel rejected—but instead of spiraling, you breathe into the ache, noticing its shape.

• You feel joy—but instead of clinging, you receive it like a breeze—grateful and unattached.

This is the magic. You are no longer being lived by life—you are now living it with conscious presence.

The Cost of Sleeping Through Life

We normalize pain, numbness, overthinking, burnout, and disconnection. We think:
This is just how life is.
But what if it's not?

What if you were never meant to be a zombie in a body chasing a checklist?

What if forgetting your truth is the only thing standing between you and peace?

Without awareness, we unconsciously:

• Project our childhood pain onto present-day partners.

• Make choices out of fear and call it practicality.

• Stay in jobs, relationships, or places that slowly kill our spirit.

• Believe our thoughts as gospel when they’re just old loops on repeat.

Awareness Is the Antidote

Awareness invites curiosity instead of judgment.
Compassion instead of criticism.
Choice instead of compulsion.

Here’s the beautiful paradox:
The moment you see your own unconsciousness, you’re no longer fully in it.
Even the awareness of being unaware… is awareness.

How to Begin

You don’t need to climb a mountain or chant in a cave.
You just need to pause.

Start with this:

• Notice your breath. Is it shallow, held, rushed?

• Notice your body. Where is there tension? Where is there ease?

• Notice your thoughts. Are they past/future? Loving/fearful? Whose voice are you hearing?

• Notice your patterns. What are you always chasing or avoiding?

Not to change it. Not to shame it. Just to see it.
Awareness doesn’t ask for effort. It asks for presence.

Final Thoughts

Awareness is the great unlearning.
It strips you down to what’s real.
Not the ego. Not the performance. Not the programming.
But the essence. The you that was there before you were hurt, doubted, or told to shrink.

So no, this isn’t a productivity hack. It’s not a 5-step plan. It’s a revolution of being.

Awareness, awareness, awareness.
This is your homecoming.
This is your awakening.
This is your rebirth—one breath, one noticing, one gentle act of witnessing at a time.