###### Loch Kelly An [[⭐️ Internal Family Systems|IFS]]-trained therapist and [[🕯️ Meditation 🧘]] teacher. - [Website](https://lochkelly.org/) - [Subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Loch_Kelly/) - [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@LochKelly) - [Insight Timer](https://insighttimer.com/lochkelly) %% Awake awareness is just awareness that is all knowing, open, formless, shapeless but yet able to know and hold and register all of experience. Local awareness is what we use to focus on a particular object such as the breath, body sensations, and so on. You can move local awareness from the breath down to the sensations to your left hand by shifting focus. Local awareness knows by being right at the site of the thing being known. It collapses the subject-object dualism. The local awareness is a step before when you're training to move the subject sensing the sensation where the sensations are, ie if you're concentrating on the tip of your nose you're not observing that sensation from somewhere else(like behind your eyes) but from within that sensation, which is what is ment by subject and object are in the same location(local awareness). Spacious awareness is what local awareness returns to, just like a drop of water returning to the ocean. That spacious awareness is awake.  So, awake refers to the quality of the awareness, whereas local and spacious refer to narrowing or broadening of the focus. %%