Conscious living or living consciously is all about being aware and present to our current life situation and then making thoughtful heartfelt choices in every moment. Having a profound appreciation and love for oneself is the foundation for being in a creative and harmonious space for conscious living.

Many people are just going through the motions of a life, making choices without thinking, or reacting from our subconscious conditioning.  Those patterns come from our parental or our cultural programming, which were ingrained in us when we were in our formative years, and probably not programs of our choosing.  That means that many are acting or reacting to life experiences unconsciously, and as such, we make the same life choices over and over again based on somebody else’s beliefs and understanding of the world. We’ve all heard the saying that “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity”.  Well, that may suggest that living an unconscious life is living a life of insanity.  I hear so many times that people feel like they are going crazy… well, it may very well be.

As we go through the experiences of life, we encounter pain and heartache as the cornerstones of our opportunities to learn and grow.  All that most people really want is to know their purpose and to be happy.  And while we’re living from our past conditioning and running on auto-pilot, those things seem forever elusive.

Living unconsciously, we are always looking outside of ourselves for our happiness. Looking for love in all the wrong places ends up being the barrier to the life that we all long to live.  Losing a job, breaking up with a partner, or feeling bad about the way we look, puts us on a track to find another job, find another partner, and go for a makeover or to lose weight, all to have self-worth and security.  Feeling valuable and safe are the innate desires that drive us all.

A simple shift to conscious living means a shift to an awareness of our thoughts, emotions and intentions, where we can choose in every moment how we want to show up, and how we want to act.

Let’s say that we could choose not to scream, pout or sulk when we become mad and instead act and communicate in a more constructive and non-attached way.  Choosing behaviors in this way fosters love and trust, and creates authentic power in your life. The love we all seek is right here, right now. A simple shift of consciousness and the floodgates open once you decide to change yourself, and not others. Life mastery through spiritual growth becomes the cornerstone of your life, and through the choices that you make, you can put in place the building blocks to your extraordinary life. Having to feel like you control and dominate situations and people in your life, to feel valued and secure, will lose significance and then dissolve. At that point, you are in control of your life circumstance, and you are no longer trying to understand why so many things “happen” to you.

The energy of the universe is very powerful at this special time in history, and it is probably the greatest time to create genuine inspired empowerment for others through truth, trust and love.

Our journeys of conscious living can begin now and will support a future of conscious lives, full of love and kindness, with people making wise choices every minute of every day – creating the life of their dreams!

As Mike Dooley says, “Thoughts become things, choose the good ones!”

How many people in our world are searching for this same type of living?  Not a space but a way of living our lives.  Love to hear from you, what does Conscious Living mean to you?  What does it look like?  What does it feel like?