Each person is as different as snowflakes or fingerprints. Over millions of years all the variations you see in people have been formed by evolution of the species. When humans began their separation from animals, ego was created for individual identity. Ego became the mind identification necessary to create individuality. Over the millennium humans have created a strong ego that also obscures recognition of the energy field that is the source of all life. However because awareness is always present, the recognition of the energy field is always available. Ego is essentially a belief system that is formalized after birth and during the first few years of life.
Some traits and talent are brought with you into this new life. Anyone with exceptional artistic or musical talent has likely brought that talent with them from previous life experiences. Awareness is also brought with you as awareness gained is never lost. Awareness of the many levels of consciousness is a process that may take many life times, because awareness has to be experienced for it to be part of your consciousness.
Every age has its prophets pointing the way out of the delusion that you are only the ego mind. Just the awareness that you have an ego will allow you to see the separation between ego thought and the consciousness behind that thought. Thoughts of separation, comparison and judgments are all thoughts of the ego. All are necessary for you to live as an individual; however recognition of how they also create stress and conflict is part of your growing consciousness. Whenever you have a negative judgment of someone, look closely at that thought. Where did it come from? What belief caused that thought? Any time there is a crisis that the ego mind cannot handle; awareness comes forth to support you.
It is that part of you that brings peace and harmony to any conflict. By the practice of directing the mind to bring awareness to the front of consciousness, you can have the balance of being conscious of unity while living in the ego separate body. This is the state of conscious living, that point where the unity of all life is experienced while at the same time having an individual body and identity. In most creative projects such as art and music, the mind of the artist is expressed through the medium. The sum total of the artist is channeled into the creative expression. Your life is like that creative expression, every moment of everyday. It is the sum total of all your knowledge and experience.
When you look at the world, you see it with fresh eyes each time. Even though you have seen this person or place hundreds of time each moment is unique in its own way. To see the world new each time is awareness coming into being. It is the realization that each new moment represents the totality of being. As you age, your body is changing. As structures age, they change ever so slightly each moment. It is the way of energy to be ever moving and ever changing. Each thing is separate and evolving in its own way and they are connected to the unified whole at the same time.
Awareness gives you the platform from which to see the individual changes and the big picture at the same time. Medical science tells us that the human body renews itself every seven years. Aging reflects the effects of environment and nutrition along with the cellular structure in your body changing. Humans are developing longer life spans as environment and diet are improved. The mental health of each person is also a decisive factor of longevity. The less stress and conflict in your life will be a major reason that you will have a longer life. Accepting and allowing are the key concepts to understand for stress free living.
When you meet someone, the relationship is new. You may not know much about them but as you see them again, more is known and connections are made. If it is a love relationship then the connections are made stronger with the emotional responses by the partners. No matter how long the relationship, the process is the same. What keeps any relationship fresh is the ability to see it as new each time you meet. In truth it is new each time, you just have to discard past familiarity in order to see it that way.
Long term relationships are what most people want because of the emotional stability it brings. Everyone wants to feel loved because love is a fundamental expression of your connection to spirit. Love is the name you give to the state of being beyond the ego mind. When you love someone, you are experiencing an awareness of the essential being of the other person. You are connecting your energy to their energy at a deeper level that transcends the ego mind. On order to keep a relationship fresh look for ways to increase awareness beyond the ego attraction.
The mind combines past experience into your present experience in order to function smoothly in the world. Only when you can no longer see the differences between the past and the present does it create stress and conflicts. By living in the past you expect people and things to be the same as you remembered them. It is always in conflict with the present because people and things are constantly changing. The flow of energy is constantly bringing you new information and change to all forms. By embracing change you can free yourself from living in the past.
Past memory and present experience work in harmony, the ability to see the past and present as distinct and different is when awareness comes to the front of consciousness. Awareness works all the time bringing the ability to discern the many levels of understanding. As awareness grows your perception also grows, allowing you to have the balance of living in the moment and seeing the past for what it is, just a memory.
"The Nature of Awareness" is a comprehensive study of the Mind, Body and Spirit Connection. Visit http://thenatureofawareness.com for more information and free download of sample chapters.
This book is an expression of my spiritual journey. When the thought of writing this book came to me, I wanted to explore individual and collectively held beliefs and test them against my understanding or awareness to see what new awareness could be gained by this inquiry. I found that any subject could be met with inquiry and a lot of beliefs fell by the way as I pushed the envelope of understanding. The journey always led back to the truth that the source of all life is also the final answer to all questions.
The creative energy field of all creation, the source of all life, is the alpha and omega. Without the spark of consciousness we call life, there would be no evolution. The journey back to unity with the creative energy field is the path of self awareness. Once a topic was examined there was no barrier to peeling the beliefs away to get to the understanding of where those beliefs came from and if they were rooted in stressful ego identification.
William Lovett, author, email info@thenatureofawareness for questions or comments.
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