From a student and mentorship client who wrote this a few years back and more recently updated her thoughts:
I have noticed emtionally that there is a calmness I am experincing. I am looking at people, situations and life in general with this calmness and in doing so getting a different perspective. For instance last week my parents old neighbor died and my sister and I went to the funeral and mass. We are catholic. The gal who died would have been 96 in December. She was such a character on many levels and while it was sad that she left this earth I felt it was right for her to go. I noticed the pomp and cercomstance surrounding the mass. I thought how interesting all this "window dressing"and I was surprised at my detachment. My sister sat next to me and cried silently through most of it and yet I felt happy for the woman who had died. She was now with her husband who had died a couple of years earlier. She left behind a couple of male friends, neighbors and her family. I think pior to my awakening I would have been very teary eyed but I think my energy has enabled me to see the "bigger" picture and see that it is all good while my sister felt very sad because she felt she was loosing her childhood with this woman dying.
I've also noticed that there are times that I don't need as much sleep and that I feel comfortable in my house alone but I also am starting to feel that I could leave this house and be o.k. about it. A side note here, there have been a couple of people that have found out what my age is and just stare, they believed I was younger. I think my energy, physically has started to change my skin and general appearence, very interesting. I'm still going to remain a redhead tho...
Update:
To be "Awakened" is to understand with a clarity of thought, to perceive life and people a lot differently. To see the beauty in the smallest of things more readily. There is a calmness that grows from within. All of this helps you develop a much deeper understanding of your surroundings and of people. Your senses are heightened. I found that I knew when people weren't being truthful with me. I began to "sense" their lies, their uneasiness, their energy. This is all part of developing the four Clairs of intuition, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience and Claircognizance. Before I became Awakened I would've become angry when I realized I was being lied to.
Now I look at the big picture and try to understand where they are coming from and their emotional state. I am now more able to stay in the "neutral" while chaos surrounds me. Looking back now, at the beginning, I now realize that I wasn't truly aware of the gift of being Awakened. It has changed me dramatically for the positive. I live more fully whether alone in my home or out with my friends. I now grow in grace.