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Hey Friend,

Understanding “Oneness” (or what many in ancient traditions call “Awareness”) is the most important thing in living free.
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But let’s dismantle a delusion:

Awareness isn’t here to fix you.
It’s not a self-improvement tool.
It’s not a spiritual productivity hack.
And it’s definitely not going to help you “manifest” a G-Wagon in 30 days.

Awareness doesn’t fix.
It frees.

It doesn’t upgrade your personality.
It undoes your false one.

And if you’re trying to use awareness to “become a better version of yourself,” I have news:

That version of you is probably just your current mask wearing a nicer shirt.

You Don’t Need More Improvement. You Need Less Illusion.

Modern personal development sold us a lie:

“You’re not good enough yet…
…but with enough routines, affirmations, and optimized morning beverages…
…you just might be.”

This keeps the hamster wheel spinning.

You chase breakthroughs.
You chase peace.
You chase presence.
All while reinforcing the very identity that believes it’s not already those things.

But awareness?
It doesn’t play that game.

Awareness doesn’t make you more.
​It shows you what you never were.

What Is Awareness, Actually?

Not the trendy kind.
Not the “I do breathwork in the sauna while journaling my intention to surrender” kind.

I’m talking about capital-A Awareness:

The ever-present, ever-silent, ever-watching eternal essence behind the noise.

• It sees the thoughts, but isn’t the thinker.
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• It feels the emotion, but isn’t the one overwhelmed.
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• It notices the pattern, but isn’t defined by it.

Awareness doesn’t try to change you.
It simply makes you available to the truth of what already is.

And the truth?

You were never the story.
You were never the pattern.
You were never the one who needed fixing.

Why Most People Run From It

Awareness can be terrifying… at first.

Because when you become aware of the game, you realize:

• Your goals were often just band-aids for unworthiness.
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• Your personality was mostly shaped by survival.
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• Your relationships were often trauma contracts in disguise.
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• Your idea of “self” was a collection of coping mechanisms that got good at branding.

Awareness reveals that much of what you called “you” was just noise.

And when the noise drops…
…so does your grip.

That’s when freedom begins.
But only if you’re willing to stop trying to fix yourself and just see.

The “Pause Before the Pattern” Practice

Here’s how to work with awareness instead of using it as a performance tool:

1. Catch yourself mid-pattern.​
   The scroll. The shutdown. The sarcasm. The snap.
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2. Pause. Don’t fix.​
   Just say (out loud if you dare): “Ah. I see you.”
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3. Feel the space between the urge and the action.​
   This is the holy gap. The place where freedom lives.
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4. Ask:​
   “Who is noticing this moment right now?”
   Not to get an answer. But to let identity loosen.
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You’ll find that awareness doesn’t rush.
It just watches.

And in that watchful seeing… patterns fall apart.

Not because you fought them.
But because they can’t survive the light.

Final Thought

You’re not here to become better.
You’re here to become aware.

Because the one who believes they need to be fixed?
That’s the illusion.

And when you stop identifying with the fixer, the project, the “work in progress”…
you find something underneath all of it:

Stillness.
Clarity.
You. (The Real you)

And that doesn’t need fixing.
That just is.

Nic Kusmich

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