yes first you have to balance the 5 energy centers of the body-

intellectual

motor (shoulder area) - reflex

emotional (chest)

instinctive (belly) - ever had butterflies and urges

sexual

strong emotions and thoughts and poor sexual urges disrupt the energy centers, put them into a bad resonance. one triggers the other and you can get to instinctive animal states and even strong physical reflexes.

being self aware allows you to disassociate from the lower thoughts emotions and urges.

it takes practice

you have to be kinda like a baby - just beautifully aware

you start to do it and you suddenly realize 1/2 the day has gone by in a dream and you were not self aware at all - just running on lower psyche.

take a walk, watch the sunset, sit in peace, meditiate, try to be clear and conscious in your daily life and you start to exercise the essence and soul instead of just feeding lower thoughts and emotions.

calming the mind is hard - hence the image of Jesus riding on a donkey into Jerusalem - that is allegorical for calming the mind.

the intellect is like a calculating machine - it loves to think think think - but the intelligence is binary -every though has an opposite debate

consciousness just is and see the truth every time

then you get into intuition and consciousness knowledge that you can just kinda download - not an intellectual process at all.