Go to a quiet place where you won't be disturbed. Breathe in through your nose, exhale through the mouth. Slowly, you don't want to hyper ventilate. Listen to your self talk until it slows down to a stop. This is the quietness between thoughts. In this state you will get introspection of your awareness. You will sense your connection with everything around you. You will get the answers to which you seek.

The number one key to increase your awareness is to be a good listener in every aspect of your growing, and learning experience in life. If you can discipline your self to be a good listener, you would have increased your awareness by 75%, and you can probably increase the other 25% by adaptation.

You can create a daily routine for you’re self to teach you’re self exercises to train, develop and disciple the mind to be calm, and quiet. You can also quiet the mind through meditation to be still so that you can focus and listen better, and once you have learned these very simple skills, you would have trained yourself to increase your awareness beyond comprehension, and everything else will fall into place naturally!

I found by catching myself and focusing on the moment at hand I greatly increase my awareness. So, no matter where you are and or what you might be doing, whether you percieve it as pleasant or not, catch your thoughts (they usually like to wander) and force yourself to focus on the task at hand. Examine it as though you are totally absorbed by it. This works well with people too. Give them your full focus and attention. Avoid multitasking whenever possible!

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Put the palms of your hands together and close your eyes. Feel your hands touching and ask quietley, "What do my hands feel like?" and feel your hands. Don't try to think or not think, just feel your hands. Do this for at least 30 seconds. Then ask quitly, "What does the chair feel like?" and put your hands on the arms of the chair and feel them. Do this for at least 30 seconds. Then look at something like a tree and say, "What does that tree feel like?" and touch it with your mind and feel it. Then do this with other senses, like, "What does that tree taste like?" Then do this with positive emotions like love. For love, start with the abstract senses so you don't get images of preconceived ideas. For example start with, "What does love taste like?" and "What does love smell like?" Don't try to fill in the answers, just feel.

Martial Arts imitate different animals. Be a cat, they never miss anything. Soon neither will you. Blessings!