Consciousness and Awareness Articles

Another year has come and gone and at some point most of us will look back and contemplate what has gone before. Some of us will see it as an amazing year that has brought us to a new deeper understanding of ourselves and others will be feeling the pain that may have shown us things we didn’t want to see. So how do you want to see the past year? Will you be letting go of any pain and heartache that you may have suffered in favor of starting a new year with hope and peace? Or will you choose to hang on to the negative things that were not what you wanted?

About 25 years ago, I attended a 45-day Vipassana retreat with enlightened master Ajahn Tong (“Golden Master”) Sirimangalo, who came from Thailand to Mexico to initiate a group of Westerners who wanted to experience Buddhist monk- and nunhood. You see, it is part of Thai culture to have this experience during your lifetime, even if only for a few weeks or months.

The decision of what to do with your life is a decision which all of us must make. We will after all, end up “doing” something regardless of whether it is a conscious decision we make or an unconscious decision we make to do that thing. If you don’t decide how you want to live as well as what you want to be and do, then someone or something else will decide for you.

We are entering a new paradigm of living life here on Earth. The old ways of duality, judgment, and limiting belief systems are falling away rapidly. Many have already shifted into the new paradigm and have aligned themselves to their TRUE nature, allowing them to live a higher 5th dimensional, heavenly life on Earth. You can do it too.

5 Easy Ways to be Inspiringrnby SpiritarnWe all search for inspiration, and one of the best ways to find it is to bring it to others. When is the last time you really inspired someone? Do you encourage the people around you? Being a muse is both fun and rewarding. Creativity is catching, so when you take the time to inspire others, the masterpieces they make with that inspiration will in turn inspire you. Here are five easy ways to inspire the people in your life to greatness

It is well known that Yoga aimed to integrate the mind, the body, and the spirit. Yoga is a science that has been practiced for thousands of years. Each day people are reporting their superb experiences with Yoga. The most essential benefit of yoga is physical and mental therapy. The aging procedure, which is mostly an artificial condition, caused mainly by auto intoxication or self-poisoning, can be delayed by practicing yoga. For getting maximum advantage of yoga one has to

Well now according to early American folklore, if you leave a half of pumpkin exposed in your kitchen negative energies will soon arrive to spoil your day and your cooking. So do be sure that as you and the wee ones gut ‘em, that you dispose of ALL of the innards and any spare pumpkin shell that you’re not using and dispose of all of that OUTSIDE the house.

Vampires. The Trost family tree. The British Records Office. Hemingway. Dorothy Parker. An 'assault on Whitney'. What does it all mean? And who – or what – is Whitney? This morning a friend sent me a mail. He said it was about vampires. But it wasn't. It was a newsy bit of chit-chat from someone I didn't know covering all of this, from vampires to the cryptic 'assault on Whitney'; the books he was reading, how far he jogged yesterday, that sort of stuff. It was sent in erro

When you awoke this morning, what thoughts came to mind? How did you feel about the day that lie before you—the yet-to-come? From the instant that you began experiencing today, you were also formulating the yet-to-come. Perhaps unknowingly, perhaps consciously, or perhaps somewhere in between, you engaged the energizing force—potential.

“Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." Benjamin Disraeli People seek personal growth for many reasons, such as: self-esteem, spirituality, success, and individual power. We want to feel good, find the meaning of life, become free of the past, and have good relationships. The difficulty has long been how to achieve these goals.

Daily Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks When people say, “You have to go inside yourself to find out who you are,” which is something you hear often, the mind has a way of playing tricks on us. It leads us to believe there’s some objective “me” that we’ll find if we search and search for it. And so we become involved in a mental search, trying to find who we are. Search all you want, however deeply you want to go inside yourself, but you will never find the objective “me” you are seeking.

Some recent events got me to thinking about things like positive thinking versus negative thinking, optimism versus pessimism and similar "versus" subjects.

Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince How we see reality has to do with our beliefs. If you hold one set of beliefs, you will interpret what happens to you in a very different way than someone who holds an opposing set of beliefs. However, at a deeper level our beliefs are governed by our emotional state—the degree of our emotional maturity. When people want to dispense with good and bad, right and wrong, as if these didn’t exist—for instance, to say that the Holocaust wasn’t bad—it’s because they are too emotionally immature to deal with the riskiness of life.r

In existential terms, for us to transcend dysfunction, we must accept the anxiety generated by the awareness of the nature of existence as inherent to our lives and learn to live with it as authentically as possible. The authentic self, which is both grounded in and aware of its transient nature, brings a conscious appreciation for the responsibility we have over our own lives. A healthy individual is authentic and genuine to oneself, which takes courage and determination because of the need to adjust to the anxieties in our lives.

Life tends to present us with both great struggles and great joy, difficulty, and happiness. In this mix, happiness is often fleeting. If you are fortunate enough to have good circumstances, you might find happiness in your life for a time, but if your feelings of happiness are generated only from outer circumstances that can and will eventually change. It will not be lasting.

What is brainwave entrainment? Brainwave entrainment is the practice of aligning the mind’s wavelengths to a specific frequency, most often for medical or healing benefits. Hints of the use of brainwave entrainment can be found all throughout history, dating as far back as shamanic rituals in traditional indigenous cultures and the time of Christ. Since the mid-1900s, brainwave entrainment has been explored by scientists and healers alike. After numerous “miracles cases” an

An excerpt from the book What is Man. The title is not the title of the chapter. Consciousness is fundamentally all that exist. It is the Force and the Source that radiate Energy and Mass, the invisible and the visible, the thought and the materialization of thought. The duality of all existence. However, consciousness is innate and intrinsic to an entity and, by it's nature accord the entity personage. Therefore consciousness is the energy of a personality, and not of a thing. Energy of a thinking knowing Person.

#1) Judge and Criticize Her Your daughter needs to know that you support and love her no matter what she does. There are times when it will be really hard to understand her reasoning for doing what she does but at the same time if you begin to judge and criticize her it will only lead to more suffering. You don’t have to like what she does and you certainly don’t have to agree with it but the love and support you give her will help her to realize that you are there for her no matter what and will lead to a more trusting relationship. #2) Never Forgive Her

“When we generate compassion for the difficult people in our lives, we get to see our prejudices and aversions even more clearly. It can feel completely unreasonable to make compassionate a wish for these irritating, belligerent people. To wish that those we dislike and fear would not suffer can ...

It is a natural human tendency to always want more. Just like you wouldn't want to stay in the first grade forever, you are always looking to grow and expand into different adventures whether they are new jobs, better relationships, exotic travel or more money. If you pay attention you'll realize that new desires arise in you every day. And the incredible thing is that your new desires are created instantly in the non-physical realms. Just like in the book "Ask and It Is Giv

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince What is the purpose of the “crash in the desert” that seems to have to happen in our life if we are ever to enter into the bliss that Eckhart Tolle describes in his books? I’m talking about the abiding peace and exhilarating joy that Jesus knew and invited us to experience. The purpose of life descending into a mess, sending us into an emotional tailspin, is to expose what Eckhart calls our pain-body.

We all want to be happy. Yet my idea of happiness may be different from yours, and yours is probably unlike someone else’s. Although it is supposed to be the state of mind that we all desire, if you asked a politician, a scientist, a psychologist, a young kid, and an enlightened saint what happiness is, you’d get completely different perspectives on the subject.

I was asked by my friend, Elicia Woodford (she is an expert in this field: http://retreatyourself.me/blog.html), to explain the detoxification process of linking with the One True Self, which is the name of my website and process. The One True Self refers to the “true self” spoken of by Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras and other philosophers on the journey of the soul. The One True Self also refers to the soft voice of the inner self.

As a child i always seemed to be very sensitive to the issues of the world. My brothers and sisters would find me crying my eyes out, while watching a program on TV. They would wonder what was up with me. Why were things affecting me so deeply. Back then i didn't know where the emotions were coming from. All i knew, was that i felt things more deeply than most people.

I talk a lot about consciousness in my practice : “living consciously”, “making the unconscious conscious”, “consciously choosing”, and so on. But what does it all really mean?

What is the nature of our world? Is it as it seems; a hard-edged, walled-i Skinner Box, in which we are rats, closely monitored for our individual performance, our ability to outwit, outlast and outplay according to laws of randomness and separateness? For most of us, slowly coming to terms with the true nature of our universe and the underlying 'reality' of our existence, this is perhaps the hardest part to accept; that the world we have been living in for so long is not wh

Have you been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately? How about irritated, edgy, angry, or just “heavy” in some way or area of your life? If so, you may be experiencing what can feel like a “hostile takeover” of your life. I have talked in the past about retrogrades, and how to work with them. Many astrologers, myself included talk about the importance of honoring what they offer - rest, relaxation, patience, review, reflection, and so on.

What are Beliefs?rnBeliefs are statements about reality that we assume to be true based on either our own conclusions or those of other people. Our Core Belief Systemrn The majority of our beliefs were formed when we were very young and learning how to survive in the world from the many influential people in our lives. Parents, teachers, friends, relatives and people in authority all had a crucial role to play in the development of our main beliefs; also known as our core bel

We all have busy lives with deadlines and lots of demands. Yet why do some people remain calm and happy whilst others are bundles of stress? Here are 10 tips that can make all the difference! 1. Choose helpful thoughts Our thoughts can be the most troublesome of all stressors in life. We create thoughts which often take us to past regrets and ‘failings’ and anxiety about the future hence negative emotions. Stress free living begins when you stop torturing yourself with what could, should or would have been and live in the present. 2. Set realistic goals

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince If you make a discovery or invent something, is it yours by right? Certainly the law bequeaths the right to profit from our creative endeavors. Copyright, patents, trade marks, and so on have long been a part of how business is done. But there’s a deeper issue that isn’t addressed by the legal aspect—a moral side of the question of ownership. It comes out in the Little Prince’s conversation with the businessman about who owns the stars.

The tree is an ancient symbol that has roots in the myths and legends of many people and races. There are tales of trees from Europe to India and amongst pagans, Buddhists, Jews and even Christians. So is there a common thread that runs through them all? More importantly… Is there a clear message that resonates in modern times? The tree is a multi-dimensional symbol that provides us with a universal map of existence. It can be viewed as a whole that is made up of three ma

One of the stops on our journey to discovering and understanding spirituality is an exploration of Buddhism. My personal experience with Buddhism has primarily come through the practices of Lay Buddhists; followers of the religion who aren’t members of the Sangha, that is, they aren’t monks, nuns, or clergy.

How do you tune into the cycles of life? Do you have things that you like to do as Spring starts each year? What seeds are you planting; and which ones are beginning to sprout?

To those who are on a mission to save humanity: Are you a spiritual seeker? Do certain aspects of reality not fit any longer? Or maybe someone or something burst the bubble of illusion surrounding you? In the age of instant information, several people are starting to uncover the layers of illusion that have surrounded them their entire life. One of the very natural reactions at this stage is to “blame the system” for “keeping you asleep”. Let’s see why this is one o

As the year moves forward and time continues to shrink, more challenging situations seem to be coming our way, bringing many of us to the point of serious physical issues or emotional turmoil, confusion, and depression. It is as if we are experiencing the true density of 3rd dimension for the first time, and we are forced to take a good look at our physical bodies, their needs, and the reality we’re creating on a daily basis.

The situation in the world today is one of shift and change. The more dynamic the change, the more resistance to change occurs. Change that brings transformation is not easy. That which has existed, the status quo, wants to continue to exist. This is true in personal life and in collective life.

THE FLOWER OF LIFErn rnIn this article I am going to talk to you about one of the most powerful and well-known forms of Sacred Geometry, The Flower of Life. Surely you have seen this drawing on T-shirts, pendants, bottles, etc., and perhaps you did not know what it was called or what it represented. In this article I will tell you several curiosities of this sacred symbol and I will mention some of the ways to use it for your benefit. Do not forget to leave me your comment an

Is it possible that there is more than one timeline for our Earth? What are your thoughts that our pure and original timeline has been “hacked” and there are attempts to divert us into a more controlled “darker” timeline? Why are timelines important?

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” — Nikola Tesla Everything is energy, we know this far. And Energy manifests in frequencies. Everything has a frequency. Facts. How can this information change our lives? “…Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way.” – Albert Einstein

News flash! You’re going to die someday! Not just you; all of us! We’re all going to die! And guess what? We can’t take ANYTHING from this physical, Earthly charade with us! Nothing! You can’t take your car, you can’t take your house, you can’t take you PS4 or your Xbox360. The TV has to stay, too. I know, I know; it sucks! You spent so much time working and saving and buying and playing with those things! It’s such a shame they have to go to waste like that whe

Nikola Tesla — “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.” Since always these numbers have presented some mystery attached, an unexplainable order pattern. Why Nikola Tesla did everything in 3’s? Some say he was insane and had an obsessive compulsive disorder, or was he just on to something most of us are unaware?

Our vibration creates our reality” After 20 years of performing sacred dance and teaching movement and sound healing it has become very clear that we can create our own reality through embodying our consciousness in form. Our vibration is the key. It is our energetic pathway to creation. Here are 5 tools to assist you in accessing the power of your personal vibration: 1. Sensory Experiencer Our physical form is made of the same vibrating matter and elements as the Earth. Th

Living consciously is, perhaps, nigh on impossible in today's digital age. It's hard not to notice that technology has advanced tremendously in the past 100 years or so. Since entering into the 21st century almost a decade ago, the age of communication has risen phenomenally and has, at the same time, made the planet a smaller place in terms of networking with other human beings in every part of the globe. What troubles me is that most of us have become all so dependent on te

Ready for a real shocker? There is absolutely no built in meaning to any one circumstance, event, or situation that you come across in this life. Whatever definition you give to any given circumstance determines entirely the effect or experience you’re going to get out of said circumstance. Positive perception/definition/”meaning” IN = Positive perception/definition/”meaning” OUT. Negative perception/definition/”meaning” IN = Negative perception/definition/”me

Have you ever wondered if outward enemies are really inward friends? I would say that often what we seen in people is not always how they are. Who they are behind closed doors can be very different than who they show themselves to be out in public. This is something that I have seen in many walks of life; be it religious authorities, abusers, teachers, and definitely in the realm of politics. Out of all of these politics is probably the most prevalent, as we often see them smiling and in charge on the outside; while behind closed doors a whole other picture is unveiled.

My friend and teacher, Stanley Keleman, taught me a lot about making shapes. Formative psychology he calls it - shaping a life. I used to "think" my life was an effort of my mind alone. That's quite a funny illusion - a life without a body. Did I "think" I was a disembodied cortex? A lump of brain cells running around - and just how would I accomplish this? The images are hilarious. I am a life shaping itself, an animate sculpture through time, in constant motion, ceaseless

What connection do you share with the Earth? There are so many different things that people will come up with when asking them this. People connect in so many ways, and it seems that it is often a very personalized experience for most people. I have seen everything from no big deal, to what connection, to I feel it pulsate through every cell of my body and beyond. However, most people still look at their connection with the Earth as a sort of experience, like being in nature or listening to the wind blow through the leaves; or any other numerous experiences similar to this.

Self awareness means knowing who you are as a person, knowing your values, your strengths and weaknesses and how you will react to particular situations in life. You can be aware of yourself when you think about your goals in life, and how you go about achieving them. When you are self aware you would know your own emotions and how you react when confronted with a particular situation in life. Being self aware would let you stay prepared with whatever life throws at you rathe

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