Consciousness to Increase Mind Power
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” Lao Tzu
Consciousness is everything;
if you are not conscious, you are not living your life, if not already dead.
What is
consciousness? Being
conscious is a "special quality of the mind" that permits us to know both that we exist and that the
things around us also exist too. Surprisingly,
many of us may not have this consciousness.
Life is an
inner journey that often requires conscious-ness of the body and the mind,
together with that of the soul or spirit, to continue making its progress in
the right direction in order to reach its final destination. Sadly, since the
beginning of time, many people have traveled on the same journey of life but
without reaching their desired destinations because they simply lack their
consciousness of the body and the mind, not to mention that of the soul or
spirit, to guide them along that long and winding life journey with its many
detours and sidetracks.
Consciousness
comes from the mind, which is created by the brain. Hippocrates (460 - 370 BC), the father of modern medicine, was one
of the first scientists to observe and notice that people with brain
damage tended to lose their mental abilities. He realized that the mind is
created by the brain, and the mind crumbles piece by piece as the brain dies.
The human brain creates the
consciousness of the mind, and thus giving all humans their pleasures and
displeasures, happiness and unhappiness, as well as other positive and negative
feelings and emotions. These human perceptions then become their experiences
which are stored in their minds as memories generating their subsequent
thoughts—together they then become the byproducts with which they weave the
realities in their lives.
Consciousness is the capability
of your thinking mind to see how and why certain perceptions occur and
affect your thinking mind. Without this consciousness,
which is knowing what is happening in the mind, you just obediently follow what
your mind tells you to do. That is to say, you have become a slave to your
thinking mind, instead of being the master of your own thoughts.
Are you conscious of your mind, or what your mind is thinking right now?
You may be conscious of your thinking mind if you are also conscious of your
breathing. Life is made up of many
breaths. Therefore, the consciousness of your breaths
is a reflection of your own consciousness of life, as well as of many other
things in your life.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© 2018 by Stephen Lau 
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