For myself, awareness of self, genesis of self through time and the slow dissolving of unconscious fictional self-images and the growth of a new model of self-image that is based upon a variety of potential futures of past selves within my timeline (roads not traveled), informed by my present self (while attempting to create a 'present' self-image that is accurate in as many regards as is possible for me) - and projections into my possible futures from this point forward. I do this by noticing.