The Difficulty In Living Consciously

Living consciously in today’s society is hard. If people do not like their life, it is easy to forget about their problems with entertainment, drugs or alcohol.

Drugs and alcohol have been around for a long time, and although there have always been drug addicts and alcoholics, there were fairly few in comparison to today.

But what there wasn’t such an abundance of, which there is today, is entertainment. Today if I wanted to I could spend the whole day browsing the Internet, watching films, playing video games and getting drunk.

It would be very easy to forget about my problems and escape into some fantasy reality, while my mind remains unconscious in my original reality.

This ease of escapism, and the feelings of inadequacy or discomfort that drive it, are the two main reasons why some people can find living consciously so hard.

After all, who wants to experience pain or discomfort when they can easily take their mind off things by watching TV, or doing something else that distracts them from the problem they face?

The simple truth is that people are motivated towards pleasure, and away from pain. And for this very reason many people choose not to live consciously, preferring to hide or disown their problems hoping that eventually they will go away.

Becoming Conscious Of Consciousness

One of the main purposes of these articles on living consciously was to make you conscious of consciousness, and the potential consequences of avoiding it.

This is important because with knowledge comes awareness, and with awareness comes action. It is only through action will you be able to exert a meaningful change into your life, and this action can only come through consciousness.

Becoming conscious of consciousness is therefore a self reinforcing cycle, whereby the more conscious you become the more appropriate action you can take that will positively impact your life.

However the reverse is also true. The less conscious you become, the more inappropriate action you take that negatively impacts your life.

For example, if you know there is a hole in the ground you can walk around it. But if you didn’t know the hole was there, you would most likely fall into it.

Life is a lot like this. There are holes everywhere, just waiting for you to fall into them.

Often when people fall into these holes they never get out, and most of the time they don’t even realize they fell in! So they just walk round and round never going anywhere.

But when you have the knowledge that comes though living a conscious life you can avoid these holes, and if you do fall in you can get out again.

This is what living consciously is all about, recognizing, accepting and taking appropriate action for the reality you are in. Only this way will you achieve your true potential in life.

The Principles Of Living Consciously

Here is a summary of the key points discussed in this 4 part article series on living consciously.

• Pain or discomfort motivates people to escape their main reality.
• Drugs, alcohol and entertainment are all means of escapism.
• The amount of time you can spend in an alternate reality is limited.
• You must always return back to your original main reality.
• Your main reality supports and sustains alternate realities.
• When in an alternate reality, you become unconscious in your main original reality.
• Time spent in alternate realities will positively or negatively affect your main reality.

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