It may lead us to awareness, insight and knowledge. In confronting a new experience, we pay attention. Awareness is the condition of being alert or awake, and thus perceiving inward and outward reality. It implies knowing or understanding something . Awareness is a more or less conscious condition of knowing the familiar meaning, value, or purpose given to our current synaptic memory patterns.
Awareness combines attention with short-term memories of current events.
In this text it is a transcendent state of being aware that may occur at nonconscious, unconscious and conscious levels. Awareness is concerned with our dominant self-concerns of the current moment, and is manifested as a sequence of transient, changing experiences. Awareness is the clear concentration of our thoughts on a single purpose, in response to an emotional arousal. Alertness prepares us for action of some kind . Alertness, an aroused state of mind, is caused by some chemical stimulus that influences all that we do.