Awareness - How To Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

Awareness is how much consciousness you are experiencing in any given moment. It is possible to significantly raise your consciousness by doing a few simple exercises.

The main reason why people's consciousness is lower than it could be is because their attention is mainly placed on what is going through their mind. Each of us has a brain that thinks and that is normal.

However, when we are thinking we are placing as much energy on our thoughts as we do when we are walking. This energy we place on our thoughts naturally takes us away from the expanded sense of consciousness that is always waiting for us to tap into.

Awareness - raise your spiritual consciousness

Now there is only so much awareness that each human being has. It is sort of like a full circle on a pie chart.

For example, if a circle represents 100% of your consciousness then when you are actively engaged in 'thinking' then you may only have say 25% of your attention available to what you are smelling, feeling, tasting, hearing or seeing both within you and around you.

It is this almost obsession with 'thinking' that takes away a lot of our awareness that can be directed elsewhere, especially onto the spiritual realm.

So how do we regain and expand our awareness?

Awareness - expand your senses to become more aware

The first place to start is to become aware of the thoughts going through your mind. Often we believe it is these thoughts that are the 'real' us. However once you start to become aware of what goes through your mind, you will start to see that a lot of the chatter within your mind is almost on autopilot.

For example, you will probably start to see that a lot of the thoughts going through your mind repeat themselves. Something happens and almost on autopilot you will have a thought form that has repeated itself in the past again and again.

Now there is nothing wrong with this because that is just what the mind does. The problem however is the amount of attention and awareness that we give up to what happens within our mind. That is because it takes away a lot of our consciousness that can be focused on more beneficial stimuli.

So in order to shift your attention, it is best to silence your mind. This is what the Buddhists call 'no-mind'.

In order to get into a state of no-mind, simply start to become of the constant voice within your mind. Right now it may be saying 'Little voice? What little voice? I don't have a little voice!'

Well, that is the little voice.

You will probably get to see that the little voice within your mind has a certain speed and a certain tempo. Start to become aware of that speed and tempo. You will proably also get to see that the voice within your mind also has a certain tone and pitch that it speaks at. Again, start to become aware of the tone and pitch that the voice within your mind speaks at.

Then when you are conscious of the voice within your mind, simply say to it 'Thank you for sharing'.

As you say this, you will probably notice that there is a small gap in your thoughts. You will probably notice there is a pause in your thinking. This is what the Buddhists call no-mind.

When you continue to practice, you will probably be able to expand the amount of time you are in this state of no-mind by focusing on the space of no-mind instead of your thoughts.

The great thing about being in a state of no-mind is that it allows you the space to expand your awareness outwards. For example, within no-mind you can instead start to become aware of what you are smelling in each moment. Plus you can also start to become aware of what you are feeling, tasting, hearing and seeing.

By expanding and heightening your five predominant senses you are then able to expand your attention and awareness within the given moment. Getting out of your mind and into your senses opens the doorway into the spiritual world beyond the one we normally know. This actively raises your consciousness.

When you are in this expanded sense of consciousness you will often feel the sense of oneness that the spiritual masters talk about. It will most likely feel like your sense of self has dissolved and that you are part of everything. That your awareness and attention has expanded both inward to include all of your self, yet also expanded outward to include all of what is outside of yourself.

It is this expanded consciousness that melts the veil between your inner and outer world. It usually feels like the boundary of where you and the world begins simply dissolves. However entering into this state will start with expanding and raising your awareness in the present moment.

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