Expand Your Consciousness

Way beyond the normal and past a vast sea of thoughts and information, there is a realm of quiet, inspiration, joy, contentment, and love. This realm lies inherently inside of you, awaiting your awareness.

This intrinsic luminosity is often shielded by inner turmoil. In our modern world, there are many ways that this conflict can arise, including living out of alignment to a personal philosophy, letting your mind run unchecked into distractions like social media, being overwhelmed with stress and self-doubt, ruminating on past events, projecting negativity onto yourself and your body, and worrying about the future. This mental chatter creates a barrier to the self-sustaining joy inside which must be resolved and quieted.

You can’t expand your consciousness by being complacent. It takes new habits to raise your energy to new heights. Here are many ways to do just that and links for more information:

• Take Quiet Pauses Everyday: By distancing yourself from distraction, you give yourself the space to release unwanted thoughts and emotions that generate inner conflict.
• Make Room for Contemplation: Contemplating on joy, creativity, curiosity, connection, your philosophy, and the beauty around you will help you to feel present and connected. Do this in the privacy of your mind, with fellowship that can appreciate it, or synthesize your thoughts and ideas on paper.
• Address Your Emotions: Like any other injury, emotional traumas must be treated with care to facilitate healing. This healing can be necessary to fully experience your inner joy.
• Try a Digital Detox: Replacing news breaks with book breaks can do wonders for your mind and emotional wellbeing.
• Start Meditating: Meditation has been proven to improve both physical and emotional health, creating an environment for reflection and rejuvenation.
• Get Moving: Activities like brisk walking can help loosen up both physical and mental tension, resolving unneeded trash and making the present more accessible.
• Cultivate Harmony in Your Relationships: While a lack of harmony often stems from the individual level, maintaining harmony in your relationships can provide a nourishing and transformative atmosphere for your self-growth.

Did any of these ideas stand out as particularly intriguing ways to resolve inner conflict and expand your consciousness? If so, click the links to read one of our previous blog posts, where we go into greater detail on each topic.