Allow your activities to naturally stimulate awareness not because of what they are but because you know that you are able to be aware no matter what you might be doing. Every action generates awareness. It doesn’t matter what it is. As you let go of perceiving the nature of the action as having anything to do with awareness, you actually open the “awareness door” wider.

You tend to think that when you are watching the news on TV and you experience upset or difficulty, the action is responsible — watching TV. It causes your experience to be a certain way. If you believe that awareness is a state of consciousness only achieved while meditating on a cushion in a retreat, you are conflating the nature of your actions with your experience and enforcing the idea that it’s what you are doing that is important. However, as soon as it becomes clear that you are actually just you in every activity and you realize there is no dependence on what you are doing, then all activities are awareness.

This realization allows you to take more responsibility for the quality of your experience with your actions. By that, we mean you know it is simply you noticing your awareness as underwriting everything you do rather than setting up an idea that doing “this” will bring awareness and doing “that” will not. You choose your actions for many reasons. Sometimes there is a sense of urgency, and sometimes your actions are relaxed. Yet all your actions are your choices. Be committed to live very fully in the moment; be present and completely engaged with whatever you do. All actions require this commitment, not just the ones you associate with your spirituality or consciousness.