How do you discern levels of awareness?

As you become more attuned to yourself, you notice when you are hungry, tired and when awareness is lucid or not.  Most everyone has experienced what it is like to feel overly-tired or 'less than optimum.' What does this do to your level of awareness?

Mindfulness and consciousness are different states of mind. You take in everything around you, selectively digest what information you consciously desire at a given moment, or remain oblivious to most of the activity around you.  You could fit into any category none.  As you exist in your own world, your awareness is what you make it. 

It may surprise you to know that to focus on the visible and physical is only a part of wider awareness. What kinds of experiences would you share about lucidity or less-than optimum awareness? Did this positively affect you? How have your choices changed you? 

Some people tune out to some aspects of their lives only to suddenly tune into aspects they had been unaware of before.  Much depends on your mental discipline and level of focus on color spectra and energy frequencies. For some people, feeling awareness becomes more pronounced than any other kind.  What about you? How are your senses?

Comments

[RainforestRobin]

I tend to experience awareness on many levels and all at once. Although some aspects of that awareness may stand out more than others depending on what I am seeing, feeling and experiencing at the time...depending on what information is coming into me and with what energetic force.

I also am aware that I can have two, three or more reactions to any given awareness (information I take in)...or even any aspect of what I take in. I also am aware that I can have any number of responses to that awareness and that I can or am chosing to respond in a given manner.

It was not always so but ever since living in the rainforests of Australia and going through profound life altering experiences my brain functions very clearly like a high speed computer, but in conjunction with what I am feeling. My brain is an organ that can process high amounts of information that my senses take in. It is a magnificent tool.

I also am the sort of person that can live comfortably with this complexity of awareness where things are not always black and white, emotions and insights may contradict and yet each has there place and I allow them to sit side by side without judgment. Some of the things I take in I use, some I don't...maybe only to realize that it's NOT what I want...so I guess even that is used.

Awareness is a stimulating and astounding thing. To "see" on all levels, whether it is the not yet diagnosed cancer in an aquaintence, or the fear or the love or the non verbal conversations taking place all around me. In my awareness I may choose NOT be aware for awhile so as to give myself solace and rest, but it too is a conscious choice.

Thank you for raising such a great question.

[Liara Covert]

Rainforestrobin, your thoughtful comments are always appreciated. The notion of "seeing" means different things to different people. Humans have free will which means they choose to be selectively aware as part of their earthly learning process. If you were aware of everything all of the time, you would not have reason to experience this world. You opt to expand the wisdom available to you while in physical form. Raising awareness allows you to gradually bridge gaps you perceive within yourself. Its all very meaningful.

[Bruno LoGreco]

Gaining strength with each passing day. I could see and hear more than I have in my past, it grows with each day.

[Liara Covert]

Bruno, to view your life as a progressive learning curve enables you to view everything as meaningful.