Meditation
The first and easiest way to develop awareness is meditation. And the easiest meditation to start with is breathing meditation. For this you want to simply breathe, while gently allowing your awareness to follow your breath as it goes in and out.
Even doing this for three breaths is enough to help focus you and increase your awareness. It is best to do this without counting, because words block awareness. You could do this for upwards of 30 minutes a day, but I recommend no more than 5 minutes to start.
Physical Sensing
The next way is tuning into your senses and really paying attention. Once again, do this without commentary and to do this without commentary it is best focus on the sensations you are receiving.
The senses, in order of usefulness and ease of use: Touch, Sound, Sight, Smell and Taste. For total development, take time to use each one consciously each day.
Energy Awareness
Begin by feeling the energy flowing through your body. If you have a hard time feeling it, do something! take a few deep breaths to get your energy flowing, or jump up and down for a few seconds, then try again. as you develop your awareness you will begin to notice more and more about your energy flows.
Once you have a feeling for that move on to sensing energy in objects, places, people or even ideas! Everything has energy, so try whatever sounds fun!
Come up with your own ideas!
Anything can be used to develop your awareness, as long as you focus your awareness on what is being done.
Watching TV can be done with awareness if you pay attention. I usually pay attention either to myself, or the underlying ideas in the show. Talking to people can increase awareness if you actively listen to them. Working can be done is such a way as to increase awareness by staying in the present moment.
Every moment is an opportunity for training!
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