I have neglected posting here for quite some time and I am sorry.  I have been busy teaching and working with disabled people for a few years but am now back and ready to start talking about pure awareness again.

I hope you have been working with meditation and practicing staying in the moment, for those are the primary steps for getting to the higher state of consciousness of pure awareness. It is very difficult for most of us to stay in the moment, even for a few minutes, due to distractions and the like. That is where meditation comes in.

Meditation encourages the mind and even the body to relax into the state of awareness.  Awareness is the fourth level of consciousness.  If you remember, the five states of consciousness are: 1) waking sleep, 2) absorption, 3) attention, 4) awareness and 5) pure awareness.

Being aware while meditating means that both the mind and body are in complete awareness.  In other words, the mind is not thinking about the past or the future and the body is relaxed.  The body may be itching or aching here and there but the mind is fully aware of those sensations and the body may make adjustments to ease those feelings. Also, the mind as well as the body may have emotions but they are here, right now, in the moment.

So, continue on with your meditation and please keep in touch.  I will be posting more in the near future.

Namaste'
Neil Crenshaw