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10 Ways to Raise Your Consciousness
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words;
they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits;
they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” -Lao Tzu
Becoming more conscious is the progressive realization of
conscious mastery over your mind.
1A.
Truth – Truth raises your consciousness. Falsehood lowers it.
First, accept the truth. Whatever you’re afraid to know lowers your
consciousness. Secondly, speak the truth. If honesty is a challenge for you,
it’s because you aren’t being honest enough with yourself. Lies you tell others
are shadowed by lies you tell yourself. The more you’re able to accept and
speak the truth, the more conscious you become. Raise your consciousness by
uncovering and dumping all traces of falsehood from your life. Allow this to be
a gradual process. As your consciousness increases, genuine honesty will come
more easily to you. Yes, there may be consequences when you switch from lies
and half-truths to the full truth, but highly conscious people know that
crossing that bridge is well worth the effect. A short-term adjustment is
nothing compared to the joys of living honestly and openly. It’s so much easier
and less stressful to be yourself and allow others to do the same. Not everyone
will appreciate the real you, especially if they’ve grown accustomed to a false
version, but that won’t matter once you accept and appreciate yourself.
2A.
Courage – Courage raises your consciousness. Cowardice lowers it.
Courage is the gatekeeper between unconscious growth and conscious growth. As
long as you remain on the unconscious side, life will keep throwing problems at
you until you step up and take charge. When you face your fear, the fear
vanishes, and problems transform into opportunities. But when you run from your
problems, your fear only grows. A powerful guiding principle to adopt is,
“Whatever I fear, I must face.” The more fears you face down, the more
conscious you become. As you master this lesson, eventually courage becomes less
necessary. Once you develop the courage to face any fear life throws at you,
you stop attracting so many fear-based experiences into your life. This is why
courage is the dividing line between unconscious growth and conscious growth.
The mastery of courage gives you the power to decide how you’ll grow instead of
being a victim of the whims of fate.
3A.
Compassion – Compassion raises your consciousness. Cruelty lowers it.
A great way to become more conscious is to search for signs of unconscious
cruelty and disconnection in your life. This can be very difficult to do since
it also requires courage. We naturally resist facing our own cruelty, but it’s
there just waiting to be uncovered. Compassion is the root of unconditional
love, a feeling of connectedness with everything that exists. Do you feel
connected to yourself? To others? To animals? To all living things? To
everything that exists? The more you develop this connection, the more
conscious and aware you become.
4A.
Desire – Desire raises your consciousness. Apathy lowers it. When
you get clear about what you want, such as by setting a goal, you raise your
consciousness. Clarity focuses your mind and gives you the power to think and
act intelligently. You can feel this effect whenever you think about something
you definitely want. On the other hand, when your desire is unclear, your
consciousness is muddled. Your thoughts lack focus and direction, and you
merely spin your wheels. Strive to become more clear about what you truly
desire most, and your consciousness will expand.
5A.
Attention – Attention raises your consciousness. Distraction lowers
it. Improving your ability to concentrate will make you more conscious. Pick up
a rock and give it your full and complete attention, and notice what happens. But
allow your mind to be riddled with distractions, and your consciousness will
sink. A distracted mind is a powerless mind. Meditation is a great way to
practice attention and concentration. Sit quietly, breathe deeply, and focus
your mind as you do your best to tune out distracting thoughts. This is simple
to learn, but it can take a lifetime to master.
6A.
Knowledge – Knowledge raises your consciousness. Ignorance lowers it.
First and foremost, know thyself. Think deeply about your life, and keep a
journal to record your thoughts. Ask questions to which you don’t know the
answer, and then search for those answers. Look around you as well, and soak up
knowledge like a sponge. Interact with your environment with a sense of
curiosity and wonder. Study it. Learn from it. Experiment with it. Strive to
understand reality, including your role in it, as accurately as possible. The
more accurate your beliefs about reality are, the more conscious you become.
7A.
Reason – Reason raises your consciousness. Irrationality lowers it.
Logic is a powerful tool of consciousness when used correctly. It lends
structure and substance to thought. However, the great challenge of logic is
the avoidance of false assumptions. A single false assumption can throw off a
lifetime of otherwise logical conclusions. So challenge all of your beliefs,
and never have too much certainty about those that rest on clouds.
8A.
Conscious people – Conscious people raise your consciousness.
Unconscious people lower it. Seek out others you perceive to be at a higher
level of consciousness than you are. Talk to them, ask questions, and enjoy
their presence. Allow their ideas and awareness to infect you, and you’ll find
yourself expanding in all directions. You’ll become more honest, more
courageous, more compassionate, and so on. But spend time with people at a
lower level of consciousness, and you’ll gradually sink to their level. Their
thoughts will infect you as well, causing you to become more dishonest, more fearful,
more apathetic, etc. Strive to find a balance between spending time with those
who raise your consciousness vs. spending time with those you can help. Learn
from those who are a little more conscious, and help those who are a little
less conscious than you. In this manner you serve the highest good of all,
expanding consciousness everywhere.
9A.
Energy – Energy raises your consciousness. Disease lowers it. Take
care of your physical body, for it is your primary means of interacting with
the world. Energy gives you an ongoing flow of vital life experiences. But
without energy you starve your consciousness. Eat with an awareness of what
you’re consuming. Exercise with an awareness of how you’re affecting your body
and mind. Before putting anything in your body, consider its effect on your
energy, not just in the short term but in the long term as well. Always ask
yourself, “Will this produce energy or disease?”
10A.
Intention – The intention to raise your consciousness raises it. The
intention to lower your consciousness lowers it. Consciousness has the capacity
to self-expand or self-contract, just as you have the capacity to grow or to
commit suicide. In any given moment, you have the freedom of choice. By
genuinely voicing the intention (or by offering the prayer), “I intend to
become more conscious and aware,” you will initiate the expansion of your
consciousness. Holding the intention to improve in any of the previous nine
areas will yield a similar effect. Alternatively, you are perfectly free to
lower your consciousness at any time. While it’s unlikely you would choose to
do so directly, you can achieve the same effect indirectly by lowering your
performance in any of the previous nine areas. By choosing to lie, to succumb
to fear, to commit acts of cruelty, to remain ignorant, and so on, you put out
the intention to lower your consciousness. And in so doing, you initiate a
process that will attract more falsehood, fear, cruelty, ignorance, etc. into
your life. by Steve Pavlina Every thought you hold serves to either expand or
contract your consciousness. There is no neutral. So choose wisely!
Every thought you hold serves to either expand or contract
your consciousness. There is no neutral. So choose wisely!
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