Noticing you're angry at your spouse isn't awareness if nothing changes. Real awareness shifts your energy and makes you act differently. Without that, you're just naming the problem and staying stuck.
There are so many ways to describe what awareness is. And probably the most common one, that is sort of tragic and dangerous, is that awareness is thought of, I'm aware of, let's say for example, of anger. And I'm angry at my wife or my husband or my kid. And that awareness has no function. In fact, it's dangerous because you think you're aware of it, but the awareness isn't leading to any energetic change, any action change. And so real awareness leads you to make the changes that the awareness is making you take notice of.
