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Awareness Intelligence

''It is our responsibility to live happy lives and to let others to live happy lives as well. If we can do that there will be no regret.''

How much are our days consumed, eaten up in the press of what needs doing? How much do we lose of ourselves in the process of wandering in the past or in the future, rather than being fully aware of that, which is right here and now?

Being fully in the moment brings about a truly enriching and liberating experience. In fact, such experience is accessible to us, twenty-four hours a day. All we need to learn is to gain control over habitual patterns of our mind, which constantly drive us away from such experience. This perpetually present invitation to wake up to ourselves and to life is the challenge and the gift of Awareness Intelligence (AI). AI is not something apart form our self or our life. It is the way we perceive the world, the way we walk, communicate, work, and the way we deal with challenges. It is never far it is right within this very experience, within each and every moment of our own. In this process, we bring all of life’s possibilities, its beauty, joy, and its strength back to ourselves by training the mind to be fully aware of each and every moment. It is an occasion for happiness. Individuals do not exist independently from one another, but rather rely on interconnectedness and interdependence for their very survival. Therefore it is of vital importance not to separate personal well-being from the well-being of others.

What is the Awareness Intelligence?

Awareness Intelligence concept offers a two component model of mindfulness and compassionate activity:
 * Mindfulness refers to a psychological quality that involves bringing one’s complete attention to a moment-to-moment experience, which involves paying attention in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. It involves present-centered awareness in which each thought, feeling, or sensation that arises in the attentional field is acknowledged and accepted as it is, without being caught by mental habitual patterns, bias or premature mental responses. Mindfulness practice aims at refining our attention and awareness, enabling us to stay focused even in situations of outer or inner turmoil, to observe the interplay of the multitude of influences that shape a given situation and to gain the inner space that allows making the most beneficial decisions. The invitation and the challenge of the mindfulness is to make ourselves available for just that learning of what life itself has to teach us when we become calm enough and quiet enough to listen, to know what we are feeling and what we are faced with, to examine, to inquire, to attend, to simply be.


 * Compassion refers to a positive quality that takes the responsibility to act for the benefit of others as well as oneself in the best and the most effective way possible. It is a process that unfolds in response to being aware of anxiety. It begins with the recognition of unpleasant circumstances, and inner mental responses, which gives rise to empathy and motivates compassionate action to relieve that obscuration in the way that positively benefits the most.

The first aspect of mindfulness involves the self-regulation of attention so that it is maintained on immediate experience of moment to moment awareness, thereby allowing for increased recognition of thoughts and feeling and other mental events. Increasing mindful attention, allows to clearly identify the right information and work with it in a flexible and positive way. The second component involves adopting an empathy and compassion, which effortlessly acts for the benefit of all, characterized by openness, curiosity and acceptance. Both aspects are closely related to each other. The gift of Awareness Intelligence creates a bridge between compassionate activity and mindful awareness. It is the union of awareness and compassion, which allows one to thinks, speaks and acts in the most practical, beneficial and meaningful way.

''I'm not responsible for what people think about me, but I am responsible for how I react to it. ''

Preliminary research on mindfulness and compassion training suggests that similar programs can increase well-being, reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, enhance connection with others and therefore increase happiness.

Each of us has the full potential to unfold Awareness Intelligence within once own being as a naturally inherent quality of mind. Nonetheless, this potential is often covered by everyday stress, confusion, social pressures, or difficult experiences. The process of discovering these qualities requires patience, steady care, proper tools, and a supportive environment. Though eventually it brings us the result we desire the most, happiness. It is our responsibility to live happy lives and to let others to live happy lives as well. If we can do that there will be no regret.

The Aims of AI:
 * Greater integration through focused in the reality of the present moment.
 * Increase access to emotional intelligence in everyday life - acknowledging without getting caught up in emotional reactions
 * Enhance clarity, sharpen attention, creative thinking, and flexibility in coping with a given situation
 * Greater receptivity to what you most don’t know and may least want to see - enhanced awareness of moment-to-moment experience
 * Deeper insight into professional and social situations and their connection to wise livelihood and meaningful life
 * Increased energy and reduced negative affects.
 * Improve immune system, develop greater mind-body awareness and a general sense of health and well-being
 * Heighten appreciation of what is really important
 * Refine sense of how you want to be as you pursue your life
 * Increase of personal and professional development
 * The professional development in harmony with the personal development.
 * Effective team work in an open atmosphere, with greater easiness, responsibility, idealism and positive purpose
 * Feeling more empathy and concern for others
 * Develop specific skills in how we relate to ourselves and others, and intentionally choosing compassionate thoughts and actions
 * Create tools to enable people to promote and enhance once own experiences of mindful awareness and corresponding altruistic behavior
 * Encourage and support collaborative research on AI among a variety of disciplines
 * Disseminate research findings on an international scale using a number of media forums
 * Serve as a key hub for the scientific examination of AI on both national as well as international level
 * Education program encouraging individuals to take personal responsibility for sustainable happiness with lasting values
 * Prepare a platform for charities

What kind of areas AI covers?


 * Education: including courses and workshops that teach techniques to cultivate awareness, compassion and altruism cultivation training programs
 * Research: including basic and clinical neuroscience, psychology, sociology, neuroeconomics, genetics, public health, education and other relevant approaches
 * Integration of research findings, including public lectures, meetings and conferences with scientists and other scholars that focus on awareness and compassion to share knowledge, creating platform for collaborations, stimulate further study of compassion and further building of practices based on research outcomes

The Awareness Intelligence is striving to create a community of scholars and researchers, including neuroscientists, psychologists, educators and philosophical and contemplative thinkers around the study of mindful awareness and compassion. Drawing from such varied disciplines - from etiological approaches that examine the evolutionary roots of compassion to skills training programs for strengthening awareness intelligence to neuroscientific studies of the brain mechanisms, as well as the 'warm glow' feelings that reinforce helping others and genuine happiness, AI is working to gain a deep understanding of mind qualities and human behaviors in all its beauty and its richness.

''"You must be the change you want to see in the world." ''

~ Mahatma Gandhi