Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness separate. Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. The initiation of the awakening process is an act of grace. You cannot make it happen nor can you prepare yourself for it or accumulate credits towards it. There is nothing you can do about awakening. Only the first awakening, the first glimpse of consciousness without thought, happens by grace, without any doing of your part. Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you will know it, it is then just no longer a concept in your mind. You can then make a conscious choice to be present rather than to indulge in useless thinking.
Love and Light, Wil