Awareness means one should first "see" within themselves and then once seeing must become attentive to what they find with clarity, honesty, and absolute openness for to "see" all that makes up our personalities and perceptions is the only way we can truly discover change and its benefits.
When seeing and being mindful in the present we can actively affect such things as emotional reactions, "heart" rate, blood (circulating) pressure, and cholesterol levels that affect pressure, blood flow/circulating, and the monkey brain.
We must tune in to what our bodies are telling us so we may "hear" how it is working, good, bad, or diseased or any myriad of things that are the effect of such a cause as anger, stress, fear, and more.
We hear our breathe, breathing and thus use our respiratory system to affect our body, mind, heart, and spirit. Breathing is a central control of all the body and mind either experience and/or do. Mindful breathing is one fundamental that allows us to change our genetic and environmental experiences thus shaping and reshaping our bodies, minds, and spirits throughout our entire lives.
The body, i.e. heart, blood, circulation, senses, etc., are often calmed and controlled by first achieving awareness and present moment mindfulness of it and its visualization of effect to the systems brain-body-mind connections promoting either health and clarity of thought or disease and fogginess of thought.
Through present moment mindful meditation of the body and mind one can achieve a level of concentration, focus, active awareness that transcends out of the personal universe to that of the entire universe. This is how one achieves the fundamentals and moves into the higher abilities inherent in all traditional martial artists.
Being mindful is developing investigative skills so one obtains true and clear knowledge of self by recognizing, labeling and observing the body-mind. It must be observation of self which is to be unbiased, not shaded by personal beliefs or attitudes; other words mind-no-mind.
It is this way one achieves behavioral changes that stick and are available in all types of conditions and stimuli such as conflict, etc. To achieve such change a person must develop and cultivate through the ingredients of change, i.e. begin with simple steps; seek out an supportive and motivational environment and then make it habit or instinctual by repetitive practice and training.
We are not fully aware of many habits so "seeing" them and then "hearing" about them in our "heart" and "mind" provide us the first step in being mindful of self.
This is another aspect of what they try to present to all practitioners through the ken-po goku-i.
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