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Get a sense of how you use mindfulness. For example, attend to whatever your hands are doing, noticing the physical sensations that are present. You can notice your hands in this way, or your feet, your shoulders, or whatever parts of the body you wish. You are having the experience of mindfulness and controlling where mindfulness goes. Now stop and shift perspectives. You must be very quiet to sense this reversal. Can you get a sense of awareness having the experience of you? Awareness in this exercise surrounds you but is not under your direction or control. The reason it felt like you were in control of mindfulness in the earlier example is because the mindfulness missed seeing the thought that created the sense-of-you as an experience. You omitted yourself within your mindfulness by placing yourself outside of the process that was occurring. Once you allow mindfulness to see that the sense of you can be experienced, awareness starts including you in its observation.