As it is said in Sanatan scriptures that you follow shali you will meet shiva.
Shakti means action and shiva means awareness.
Shakti and shiva are not two seperate things it's one energy when shiva manifests himself as cosmos then he appears as Shakti.

In shiva sutras talks about talks about when you are total in that totality the spell of mind is broken the true form of Shiva is revealed which is pure shakti that's why we call shiva ardh narishwar which means half man half women.
In the beginning and aoways he insisted on being total because in totality your mind confusion ego disappears you are pure energy and awareness. Only then you experience shiva because directly with mind it's very arduous, dry and monk like path.
In effort to be aware people start to deny Shakti body trying to go beyond thought body emotion which creates schitziphrenia in your thoughts one part of your thought ego thinks that you are watching the other thought of desire or anger but in fact your mind is playing games of becoming aware enlightened which also is another thought and desire. Millions of seekers are in this trap they loose touch with real shiva as Shakti. You see if shiva is dancing as shakti totally wirh love who are you to judge body mind and emotions because you are afraid of Shakti you manipulate body earth mind then you call it maya and want to go beyond. But in fact u have become isolated as a mind fro life shiva Shakti. You will miss life in the name of meditation and spiruruality.
Most of the people in met on spiritual path including me for them spirutual is an escape from life.
When I was with osho I trued very hard the path of awareness and I ended up having epileptic seizures because I comoletly avoided the expression and dance of Shakti. I started to live in spirutual ego cut off from things.
I am not saying osho is wrong but I misunderstood.
You cannot do anything to be aware because that is the natural state of life. As science says every atomic particle is conscious that consiousness is Shiva that means this while cosmos is made of consiousness or like ramakrishna said while cosmos is kali the Shakti. It's sane thing. Most of people end up missing in life in the name of spirutual hence miss the spiritual as well.

Osho not only insisted on awareness but totality and complete absorption. If dance totally you will end up becoming aware that body is dancing in dancing but something on you is absolutely still. As new quantum physics science says that black hole is not vacum bit potential energy and possibilities and cosmos is dancing shakti around shiva the black hole.
Till you do not honour the expressed part of Shiva, which is Shakti till then you will not enter really a meditation.
Osho insisted that relax and watch your thoughts don't interfere but relax don't try to watch just dont interfere you will find you are Watching. The secret of awareness practise is not awareness effort but not interfere with thoughts when you interfere with thoughts you become unaware and get trapped into story of thought.
Effort of meditation is to how to engage your energy into total creative action so that your mind has no energy to think. Then without defining it you are into awareness but if you say I am aware you are not aware anymore. Because energy and awareness is beyond thoughts. Our trap is not life or Shakti but our ideas about life and people.

This method of totality was used by paths of devotion by chanting singing by sufis using whirling that you become pure enegy vibrating that energy is what we call divine like fire ever present but our mind takes us to last future and fear etc.
When I say energy I also mean shiva because you cannot know your body and cosmos which is Shakti without...