My awareness used to be like a clenched fist. I used to be like a clenched fist. Focused and concentrated all the time. Always obsessed. Always in my head. Disconnected from everything.

Now my awareness is like an open hand, fingers spread. I see a lot of stuff that was invisible to me before. My world is bigger. I am out of my head.

I'm not saying its perfect. And obsession calls like a siren. But you could say that I am aware of the options now, and can choose intelligently, where before I was only aware of one option and called it reality.

The technique that I use is what the Buddhists call Vipassana.