Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.
Deepak ChopraWhat you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.
Deepak ChopraKnowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from these sources build a reasonable case that God exists. But such a God transmits no love to Earth. Therefore nothing substitutes for gyana, which is direct knowledge of the divine. Instead of having thoughts about God, you share God's own thoughts. Her thoughts can only be about Herself.
Deepak Chopra