It occurs to me that if we performed some experiments with our awareness, we may discover some lasting solutions to the problems of life. Many of these problems take us straight to doctors or other experts. This category really includes everybody that we start listening to: a friend, supporter, elder. There is no problem in listening, but it would be greatly insightful to the self if more than relying on other’s testimonies, we created some of our own.
Awareness Gifts Infinitude
Awareness is a practice that lets in the universe. Its premise is really quite simple - that what is seen, heard, felt, understood, or imagined, is a partial truth. To realize the infinitude of the universe, we have to enlist our subconscious and unconscious mind. A cascading consciousness is the stuff of awareness.
Awareness is a practice that grows by the day. Human journey has every chance of getting smothered by the omniscience of life. This happens in the arena where consciousness does not prevail. As each cell gets lit up by awareness, the subconscious and unconscious accede to consciousness.
Awareness is a possessive beloved. It only becomes yours when it has the last cell of your being in its possession.
Awareness Gifts Aloneness
Awareness takes you down roads untrodden. It is simple to follow the herd. Even if it means going round in circles and not arriving anywhere. Living with generalizations, accepting the verdict of data, quoting global research is safe. Venturing where no one has been before is dangerous. The choice here is really between being safe or alone. I choose the latter.
The big deal in being conscious or aware is that such a being, is perpetually taking the inner and outer into account and readying for a leap. Life, then follows the unexpected.
Whenever I am confronted with a problem, I live with it. For example if there is a physical ailment, I make sure that I never read anything about it, as that influences me into imagining all the symptoms. Here is where I take help of my awareness. It alerts me to my tendencies, and makes me prudent towards my vulnerabilities. Forewarned by my awareness, I steer clear of information and stay keenly tuned to my body. I set up a watch on myself and this sets the ball rolling on solutions coming to me. I have often heard myself say, "discomfort is awareness."
The journey becomes full of possibilities. When afraid, apprehensive or nervous, I just turn on my awareness and the negative sensations either diminish or understanding is achieved. The vagaries and victories are navigated with an equal vigor.
Walking it alone is the key to finding a kaleidoscope of mind illuminating understandings. What worked for me may not work for you.
Awareness Gifts Resilience
No institution, government, person, or situation can cow you down on this path. The practice of awareness is not a jewel of the few. It certainly does not belong to the rich or powerful, and the underprivileged are not victims.
That is the whole point of awareness. It cuts through education, age, experience, society. It is a way of living life. Used by the poor, it will keep them striving with faith and not despair. For the rich, it can keep them going through troubles knowing that nothing lasts.
In any case, this discussion is not about the poor or rich. The point is that awareness accords the human race as a whole an equal opportunity to live with strength, resilience, and calm.
Awareness is a Choice
Even those marooned in the snow in an aircraft crash in the mountains had nobody other than themselves. At that point only awareness survived. It is available in contingencies and luxuries. It is a shining torch that–no matter how dark the path–will light the way.
A child is naturally aware. Its senses and instincts function smartly. As it grows, it is exposed to generalizations, codification, and a truckload of molding and influencing. Awareness is still working in the child though it may not always be able to push through.
Awareness is always there. It is there right now and we have the option to listen to it! Or listen to a million voices who are there a-dime-a-dozen to be our gospels.
The dimension of awareness is limitless. As yoga practitioners we have the opportunity to dive in.
