Raising our consciousness is a pre-condition to living more consciously for both our own benefit and the benefit of all the others around us. It means we become more aware of self, others and our environment. It includes awareness of the effects we have on ourself, others and the environment.
From Safety Consciousness to Raising Consciousness
Most people are overly self-absorbed with finding ways to meet their fundamental needs first, and beyond, to meet a multitude of perceived needs.
Such a search generates fears, worries and tensions that foster a climate of internal struggle as we look for solutions to our problems and ways to gain from opportunities. We’re not raising consciousness within ourselves, we’re embracing safety consciousness.
Raising consciousness means we open our hearts and live in gratitude. When we shift out of the problem mindset and into the deeply feeling heart we realize the more we work at addressing a problem as a problem, the more we validate the problem in our minds. We become more aware that the only problem we ever had was thinking a problem existed.
This echoes the admonition of the spiritual teacher Joel S. Goldsmith (1892–1962):(1)
“You cannot solve a problem at the level of the problem.”
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Raising Consciousness: Freedom from Suffering
When we suffer from a negative emotion as a reaction to another person or event, that primary emotion is generally short-lived. What extends and magnifies our suffering is the secondary emotion that stems from our reaction to our primary emotion. It’s all about the feelings we have about the feeling we had—internal dialogues and stories we tell ourselves.
As long as we cling to safety consciousness we prolong our agony. If we can rise to a state dominated by heart consciousness we shift our perception and step out of despair and into awe of life.
Now we create for ourselves enhanced emotional maturity. We understand that although we face problems in life, we don’t have to suffer. Suffering is a choice. It feeds the dramatic life story we tell everyone. We fail to realize we’re authors of our own life.
Raising Consciousness From An Open Heart
An open heart feeds a fuller, truer, and more exalted view of self and life. It makes us happier and more pleasant for others. This is true raising of consciousness.
Raising consciousness from within ourselves means we become more fully aware of the potential of our true selves. It improves our quality of life and of all the others around us including people, plants, animals and environment.
More and more we see assertive programs for raising consciousness in organizations around the world. In 2019, the British government announced 370 English schools began practicing mindfulness—relaxation and breathing techniques and other methods to help regulate emotions. This was a new initiative and study aimed at addressing the mental health crisis affecting their younger generation. The study which ran through 2021 was one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Happiness Comes from Raising Consciousness
It’s been said that His Holiness the Dalai Lama suggested that the purpose of life is:
“to find happiness in an imperfect world.”
This statement leads us to see that the way to happiness requires a strong degree of consciousness raising—conscious living.
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Endnotes:
(1)Joel Solomon Goldsmith (March 10, 1892 – June 17, 1964) was an American spiritual author, teacher, spiritual healer, and modern-day mystic. He founded The Infinite Way movement, a spiritual teaching revealing the nature of God as one infinite power, intelligence, and love; the nature of the individual as one with God's qualities and character, expressed in infinite forms and variety; and the nature of the discords of this world as a misconception of God's expression of Himself in His universe.
Sources:
“Thrilled To Be Alive.” Live Conscious, 13 Jan. 2018, liveconscious.com/2017/12/thrilled-to-be-alive/.
Magra, Iliana. “Schools in England Introduce a New Subject: Mindfulness.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Feb. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/world/europe/uk-mindfulness-children-school.html.
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