The term ‘conscious living’ seems to have grown in popularity over recent years. More and more people are concerned with living consciously. But even more, people are confused as to what it means to live consciously. The idea of conscious living connotes ideas of community and peace. The point of mindful living is gaining a sense of contentment within your life. It seeks to enable better health, better relationships, and an increased sense of satisfaction in the power you hold over your own destiny.
Which of our treatments can best help you learn about conscious living?
- Guided Meditation can help you to reflect on your life, and imagine a lifestyle that is healthy, conscious and purposeful.
- Our Self-Development Programme can help you to take practical steps to bring this lifestyle into reality, and make the changes that can enable you to live purposefully.
Even those who strive to live consciously find themselves struggling to define the term. Consciousness suggests bringing awareness into every aspect of life, an attempt to live with purpose, perhaps.
We often find that it is far easier to analyse a friend’s life instead of our own. Something about turning inwards to explore we are very hard for the individual. We forget our own emotional and physical surroundings, and it pays to remind ourselves of the environment and the way we are living. We have been living like this for so long that it is almost impossible to view it objectively.
What are the Advantages of Conscious Living?
When we live consciously, we have a greater power to analyse areas of our life that might need work. We can work on our health, finance, relationships, environment, spiritual development, and entertainment. Growing in awareness allows you to understand better how our thoughts are shaping our lives and how we can grow past them if they do not serve us. Tied to this is the concept that making conscious choices enables us to live healthier lifestyles. Overall, it is a commitment to living in the present and engaging with the opportunities we must live with purpose.
By choosing to gain consciousness, we are shifting the power to develop into our own hands. We can deepen our fulfilment and joy with life. Living consciously means not having to live according to habits and impulses instead of making informed choices about what we should do for the best possible outcome. It sounds simple, and it is, requiring only to practice mindfulness for a greater sense of self-awareness.
Without tapping the unfulfilled potential within ourselves, we cannot go beyond our stagnated and ordinary existence. Creating a new life is the only way to escape this predetermined fate of a bland and dissatisfying existence.
Our Unconscious
What is it that we do when we are not living consciously? We can live in a daze, not acting on the essential things we should be focussing on. This kind of living is not laziness, but it can feel as though we have resigned ourselves to something purely because we don’t feel like we have the energy to make clear decisions. Maybe you go unconscious in a particular area of your life? This is a concept worth considering. The journey to conscious living is not suddenly deciding to change our view of the world but the gradual process of aligning ourselves with mindful activities which will help us grow in self-knowledge.
Expanding Consciousness
To be conscious means to be aware of ourselves, this includes out thoughts, emotions, and surroundings. This awareness is a deliberate sensation that provides a sense of purpose in how to live your life.
- Picking activities which we will choose to do consciously. This means practising a mindful state when doing them, engaging with the present.
- Explore new things that we haven’t got full conscious awareness of.
- Examine our habits and determine which serve us well and which do not. Form a plan to stop doing things that are detrimental to others. Work out what positive traits we have and plan to further those.
- Practice gratitude for the good things in our life. Try journaling your gratitude by listing all that we are grateful for. Honour your achievements and celebrate your blessings.
- Align our thoughts and beliefs to our goals. This can sound rather abstract, but the critical point is that you practice as we mean to live. Be positive and strive to move towards what you want.
It takes a lot of dedication to live consciously. Cruising through life on autopilot would be far more straightforward. But it is the decision between living a life fulfilled and a life that is easy to decide between. We cannot transform ourselves overnight, but we can make a concerted effort to make our lives better and more satisfying. The kind of consciousness that we want to achieve can only be developed over time or by something devastating happening to us. It makes far more sense not to wait for bad things to come but prepare the correct versatile mindset for our lives.
Meditation can be a highly beneficial way of expanding consciousness to live a more fulfilled existence. It can help you remain firmly in the present and explore your thoughts from a balanced viewpoint. It does not have to be long or complicated; the simple act of breath control effectively blocks out external stimuli and makes you more aware of the present moment. Guided Meditation mainly provides a valuable space to objectively view our thoughts and reassess how we have constructed our reality, both positively and negatively. Only through recognition of this can we change, and through change, we can make life better.
