Photograph by Bradley Weber You have probably heard the quote by Socrates, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Perhaps what Socrates meant is... unless we examine our lives, we are doomed to live in our own patterns. And what kind of life is it to live unaware? It could be argued that our greatest gift is our free will—our power to choose. How much are we exercising this gift if we are not even aware of our choices? We call this "awareness"—our ability to recognize what is actually happening, to be present, and to exercise our free will. Based on the frequent estimation from research and popular articles, we know that the average human has over 60,000 thoughts every single day . Think about that! And how many of those do you think we are conscious of? Spoiler alert... science projects as few as 10%! That means up to 90% of our thoughts each day happen without us even being aware of them! So it begs the question, "What can we do about this?" ...