How Living With an Increased Awareness Could Change Your Life
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is, strictly speaking, no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. ― Eckhart Tolle
Most people think I'm too romantic when I say conscious living has changed my world.
In my spiritual journey, I've practiced various spiritual routines
- Silent sittings
- Active Meditations
- Kriya Yoga
- Bhakti
- Satsang
I never knew what would happen. I kept on working without expecting anything. But steadily, my chaotic life changed into a peaceful one. My sudden outbursts transformed into utter stillness.
All these practices lead to a raised consciousness. You become separate from illusions and anchored in the reality of the present moment.
And I can confidently tell that conscious living can transform your life in ways you never expected.
Conscious Living = Communicating With Pure Life
When I encourage people to live in awareness, they become intimidated. Often I hear them saying, "I don't have it in me. I am no Buddha."
When I tell them to watch a few breaths without involvement, they say, "I can't. My thoughts hijack me."
And why not?
Tight schedules. Running late for deliveries. We are trained to work against time.
The space-time chain always grips our minds.
Sitting silently seems like a waste of time when you can finish cooking or cleaning up the room.
The mind is always doing something, even if the body is still. This conflict between mental overload and physical stillness disturbs many.
Because of this, many leave meditation. Thinking it is not their cup of tea.
The reality, however, is it happens with even experienced meditators. But they know conscious living helps them to claw back again in utter silence.
Conscious living is not about living like Buddha.
It is about finding the barrier that keeps you from leading a conscious life.
And guess what?
Often, your emotions, thoughts, and attachments blur the present moment.
The mud settles down when you live in awareness. Clarity of thoughts happens, which helps you dive deeper into your higher self.
Conscious living helps you create a space to connect with your soul and heart. The more you connect, the more peace and bliss happen.
If you choose to live with awareness, all you need to ask yourself is what you think and feel in the moment.
“Life is a movement, but not from one place to another. It is a movement from one state to another. It is a deep inward movement from one consciousness to another, to the higher realms of being.”
You Don’t Learn by Reading. You Learn by Experimenting
In the internet era, constant information and knowledge bombard us all the time.
Even though videos, podcasts, ebooks, and audiobooks make it easier to learn wisdom on the go, we barely use it in our lives to make it blissful.
Conscious living is a brilliant solution if you apply your knowledge practically.
Experiment with it.
Include any activity in your daily life. It can be as simple as washing your hands.
Be very mindful of the water falling on your hands. The touch of hands rubbing together with the soft lather that forms in between.
Be acutely aware of the feelings.
Your complete attention should be on washing your hands. Nothing else should invade your mind for those few moments. Just water pouring and hands rubbing together.
Upon constant daily reminders, your mind will automatically pause during those moments.
It will make you more relaxed, focused, and mindful.
Then expand to other activities like walking, talking, or eating.
With consistent practice, you can use it in various conflicting situations. Whether at the office or at home.
You would then see the situation as it is without tampering with your emotions or thoughts. The extraordinary clarity can bring peace even in high-tension circumstances.
The relaxed approach can transform your life.
Living consciously has helped me to diffuse many escalating situations.
How?
Because I could see clearly in moments where blurriness would have usually come. I could watch there was —
- Situation (that goes against my beliefs and life, that is why it is disturbing)
- Person(s) (who are not aligned with me and are in pain because we don’t get into agreement over specific issues)
- My emotions (raging in the friction and trying to pull the other down)
- Me (the real ‘I’ unaffected by all this and just watching the drama unfold, both outside and inside)
There was no 'me' swimming with emotions or attached to the situation. There was no ‘me’ to react to or defend the allegations of others.
The peace was unwavering.
Of course, I didn't know it was possible till it happened when I saw the magic of conscious living.
Increased Awareness Helps You to *Detach* From Any Painful Situation
When I started my spiritual journey, I wanted to live in peace and harmony with no disturbances. Yet, life poked me multiple times, making me convulse with pain, leaving a bitter taste.
But when I started living consciously, I tasted freedom from suffering.
Pain is inevitable in life. No one can escape it. Yet pain does not always describe suffering.
Most of the suffering is mind created.
Like you can be involved in house chores. You can either do it single-mindedly while managing your time. Or you can accuse and curse others for being lazy ass.
House chore is not your suffering. It may be an additional pain.
But as soon as you attach yourself to being a victim or feel like a servant, that pain exaggerates and leads you to the ocean of suffering.
A life free from suffering is possible. Awareness helps you create a distance from any painful circumstances and you.
You, which you think 'you are,' dissolves.
Many identities and conditioning drop. The attachment disappears.
A consistent life of consciousness will help you discover who you really are. It breaks down complex ideas about yourself.
Conscious life dissolves —
- Life long conditionings
- The fake image we create for society
- Stories that we build about ourselves and others
The chains of identities disappear. You become a fresh dew drop, ever renewed in the present moment.
Then painful situations remain just an outside occurrence for you.
It may be connected to you. But you are independent of it. Attachment to any pain breaks.
Then only awareness remains.
When in Doubt, Awareness Helps You Find Answers
Your negative thoughts and feelings are more dangerous than any situation.
Any difficult circumstance itself may not weigh you down. But when combined with your poisonous, non-stop ideas, it will drown your mental health.
It feels scary to face them.
When we feel stuck, analysis paralysis occurs. We are too afraid to move ahead and enter the loop of overthinking.
Conscious living eliminates confusion.
How?
Because silence automatically occurs when you live a conscious life. And when answers come from utter stillness, it never goes wrong. The answers are almost always perfect.
You understand the situation profoundly and make quick and efficient decisions.
It organizes your thinking and neutralizes any toxic inner commentary.
Conscious living sees the situation as it is without entertaining the volcano of thoughts. You realize thoughts are independent of who you are and the current situation.
Better judgment and decisions arise from living a conscious life.
Final Thoughts
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by heavy words like 'conscious life.' But what would you choose if you had two options:
- Living the way you have always lived. You might feel fearful and intimidated about how life will turn up.
- Living a life full of freedom. Emotional freedom from suffering. Freedom to choose your reactions to whatever life brings up.
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