In our hectic lives today we try to pay attention to Awareness. There are many understandings of what awareness really is and how it is expressed in our daily life. If we would like to look at the various definitions of awareness, the most vague one says, that Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns.

In our, spiritual community, quite often awareness in its ambiguous form is mixed up with self-awareness, in which the focus is on me instead of ability to perceive me in the context of ….(fill the blank).

Awareness always implies that one has had a previous experience with certain situation, and gained personal knowledge about it. That we have gathered information and – hopefully – digested it intellectually in order to transfer it into wisdom.

Instead of that, we have the tendency to “go inside” and pay more attention to my individual experience, which has nothing or almost nothing to do with the world around.In this quest for retrospective, we dwell more and more into ‘me, me, me’. It leads to kind of immunity to the social context of things and further separation from the community, withdrawal from social life and total focus on our own needs (often regardless of cost of other parties involved).

In my opinion awareness is about experiencing something, then processing it on all level of our existence.

Intellectual processing will allow us to gather knowledge.

Emotional processing will help us create feelings.

Spiritual processing will able us to build stronger paradigm for the future of our soul.

End effect of that process is: Wisdom!

If we would allow ourselves time to go through all these processes with every meaningful moment of our life, then we will never mix Intelligence with Intellect and Knowledge with Wisdom.