The paper defines ‘acting with awareness’ as ‘an enhanced capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on automatic pilot.‘

Evidence

Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (via PMC))

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: The Myth of Optimal Awareness - Why Sanity Requires Strategic Auto-Pilot; Mindful awareness has been defined as the capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on ‘automatic pilot’ or being lost. — Relationship of mindful awareness to neural processing 
; Evidence of association between self-consciousness and self-awareness was stronger for the awareness subscale in a positive correlation with affective outcomes. — Self-Consciousness and Self-Awareness: Associations