How is awareness 'realized'?

As your brain develops, you become more aware.

Usually, a child learns to walk before they talk. Normally, a child that can't walk doesn't talk during the first two years of life. There seems to be a strong relationship between physically moving through time and space and speech.

For example, children younger than 6 like Elmo and Big Bird because they can't put their finger on what is wrong with this picture. And so they learn and are entertain on a street no one seems to know how to get to.

The next stage of development is the concrete stage. This group normally doesn't like Barney and Baby Bop characters because they understand puppets are real. This group works best in the here and now and physical. So for helping them do math, physical representations often assist them through abstract concepts.

Abstract thinking or self awareness is the last step that occurs about puberty. With abstract thinking comes self awareness but not a sense of purpose. So it is rare for children to commit suicide before they become self aware.

Do you remember going through all these stages? Probably not. Most likely you can't imagine what it was like to think like a 3 year old.

From your questions, it sounds like you want to upgrade a hard drive rather than be more self aware. By that I mean that you want things to occur one way instead of multiple ways. If you are a soldier walking through an enemy camp, you want to be able to hear every noise and see every movement. But when you are reading a good book, you don't want to hear every noise or see every movement because that would take away from reading your book.

When you are in an emergency situation, you want to time to slow down so you see everything in slow motion. But when you are listening Gore speak or hearing nails on chalkboard, you don't want to savor the moment. Or if you are forced to watch paint dry, you don't want to be all caught up in the moment.

So understand that your brain adjusts to the circumstances and you have the power to train it like you do your muscles.

Hope this helps

Awareness is 'realized' by being aware. That simple.

There is no quantity of awareness, not even quality. You can't it make more or better. You can use the awareness you have to be aware, that's all. Now it depends where you focus and how you are using your established old tricks to do the same and always... Maybe you should focus your awareness to this! Or better not because then you would find out, - become aware - that you are still in the trap of your precious personality, although you have the self image, that you left this behind and are in fields of high and superior awareness.

You are not asking about awareness, you are asking how to realize your concept about awareness, a high pitched state, which is your goal. Here it shows, that you are still in your personality trap, turning around yourself and looking for confirmation by giving 'best answers'. Your questions and answers indeed are excellent, but as more sophisticated they are, as more difficult it is to be aware of the trick your personality is using to hold you tied... Be aware of it and you will be free! But don't worry, do your daily meditation and the rest will follow...

BeiYin

In this mortal life, 100% awareness is not possible. It is meant to be this way. Our fleshly brains do not work properly with our "spirit" or true selves. We are not always "aware" for our own good.

The following paragraphs are taken from the most amazing book:

There are two simple differences that set the human species apart from the rest of the animal kingdom—self-awareness and the ability to reason. This ability is not instinctual, and did not come from years of cognitive evolution as some would suggest. From scientific speculations, a few wise ones formulated the myth of “cavemen,” whose grunts and groans eventually developed into a communal language of cooperation, which aided the success of the species. If this were the case, science would see the same development in other animal species. But it does not, and will not, because these other species haven’t the ability to reason; nor are they aware of the self as an individual part of a greater whole possessing the ability to exercise free will in order to maintain individuality.

...The individual is the essence of the wise ones. To find this “essence,” one must experience a lifetime of choices in which actions contrary to the whole are taken in order to maintain a balance of self-awareness and individuality.

...To further maintain the essence for which they exist, humans place values on other abstractions that can more easily establish a state of individuality among them. Material possessions become a distinction of class and prestige. Distinctions of accumulation of knowledge (not intelligence) set one individual apart from another by allowing the opportunity for self-worth to foundationalize individuality. A college degree or employment experience that none other has achieved helps maintain this human “essence.” The color and style of hair, the jewelry adorning the body, and other personalized choices, support the individual against the whole.

Self-awareness creates the individual human experience, and the ability to reason maintains it. These unique human characteristics determine the balance by which we acquire a personal awareness of the self. If maintained properly, this balance serves us well, and gives meaning and purpose to our existence.

Individuality is the value placed upon this existence. When this value is compromised, there is no longer balance. Humans recognize balance and imbalance as happiness and unhappiness respectively.

...Since humans seek to fulfill the purpose for which they exist (i.e., to be recognized and valued as individuals), they use their superior intelligence to accomplish this goal. Since the goal is individual and has nothing to do with the whole of humanity, whatever or whoever interferes with reaching this goal becomes a detriment to the happiness (balance) of the human being.

These excerpts come from the book at the site below. It is free to download.

Answer to your all related questions is one.

By regular practice of pure meditation atleast one hour daily, when you achieve frequent samadhi ,you will have 100% awareness all the time.

Thanks and blessings

Shivabalananda