1. Connect with nature

Nothing feels more natural or more pleasing than going for a nice healthy walk and appreciating nature. Appreciating the beauty that nature provides and appreciating the forms of life in which nature manifests itself is truly fulfilling. I am personally strongly against the killing or destruction of nature because I feel that it is a very important part of humanity that needs more conscious recognition and the act of acknowledging it’s beauty will make you a more conscious individual.

Go for a walk in the forest, jungle, field of daisies, or wherever you feel like getting a connection with nature. If you are an avid meditator, feel free to enjoy a meditation session in the field of daisies: it will feel wonderful and allow you to feel more deeply connected. It is really possible to connect with nature on a level that is beyond verbal expression. It is possible to feel completely at peace and completely one with nature. As you learn to connect and appreciate nature, you allow your consciousness to rise up.

2. Exercise, dance, get your body moving

Exercise is a great way to help you become a more conscious human being. The act of exercise, dance, or any other form of movement are healthy. Get off your rump and help yourself build a healthier lifestyle, more brain power (via neurogenesis), reap “the feel good effect” (endorphins), and lowered stress levels.

Exercise and dancing will raise your consciousness by promoting healthy brainwave patterns, healthy neurotransmitter levels, and great circulation throughout your nervous system. They support longevity, can slow aging, and ward off harmful diseases. Many people in lower states of consciousness have created so many unhealthy patterns in their lives that even the simplest forms of exercise cause a great deal of strain and effort.

When you have consciously or unconsciously blocked out the pattern of exercise in your life, you are causing yourself harm. Help yourself rise up and break the pattern of not exercising by going for a friendly walk with one of your friends or even going to the club to dance: both are easy, fun, and empowering. Most importantly, they will make you a more conscious human being.

3. Simple meditation

I have discussed the benefits of meditation and am definitely an advocate of meditation. Whether you meditate with a primary focus of improving health, spirituality, boosted brain power, healing, or all of the above, meditation will make you a more conscious human being. The simple act of setting aside 10 – 15 minutes of your day for closing your eyes and focusing on your breathing can be a very powerful form of meditation. When you meditate, you allow yourself to get closer to a state of optimal brain activity, functioning, and developing a high performance consciousness.

Whether you are an advanced meditator or a beginner, the benefits are tremendous and will allow you to tap into your highest state of conscious functioning if you stick around long enough. I find the act of meditation to be enjoyable and very pleasurable. It is an act that will definitely raise your conscious awareness and allow you to attain greater focus, discipline, and develop a deeper joyous connection to life.

4. Spending time with true friends

Another gem towards raising your level of consciousness is connecting with others: most importantly, spending time with your true friends. Find only friends that align with who you are, your beliefs, and your values – they will make you more conscious. These are your true friends, and though they can be tough to find, they should definitely be cherished. True friends are individuals that express unconditional love for your life, are always supportive, and respect your personal choices in life.

When you spend time with the true friends that matter most in your life, you are able to successfully spread your love and receive love in return. True friends are gems: they encourage positive change and support you when the going may get a little bit tougher than expected. Friends are great for emotional bonding, sharing ideas with, and doing healthy activities with. Give some of your true friends a call and make it a habit to spend more time with them.

5. Have the intention to raise your consciousness

If you have the intention to raise your consciousness and state of awareness, you are on the right track. Having the intention alone will make you more focused on finding ways to raise your consciousness. Obviously, if you found this article with the intention of raising your consciousness, you were able to manifest the information that you were looking for!

If you don’t have an intention of either raising or lowering your state of consciousness, the process will happen unconsciously and you’ll either be drawn towards the polarity of pure unconsciousness, pure consciousness, or forever remain somewhere in the middle with scrambled characteristics of both in your life. Most of the human population is stuck somewhere in the middle (which isn’t a bad thing); they just don’t fully understand where they’re at in life or why they haven’t changed much throughout life.

On a personal note, I started out life remaining unconsciously in the middle until drastic negative changes kept happening in my life: abusive relationships, fear, depression, pain, lack of focus, etc. Most of these negative changes occurred unconsciously and I felt like I had absolutely zero control of my life and believed it! I became so stressed out and lowered my state of functioning so low that my choices were either: suicide or growth. I consciously chose to grow and from my experience, I have consciously worked my way past “the middle” and into a much higher state of consciousness.

6. Tell the truth, be honest with yourself

Anytime you tell the truth, you raise your level of consciousness. Why do people tell lies? To protect themselves in lower states of consciousness. People in higher states of consciousness don’t lie because they want to be true to themselves, others, and make relationships in humanity more conscious. Telling lies creates a false sense of security, Enron scandals, and unhealthy relationships.

Make it a conscious habit to always tell the truth. There’s really no excuse to go around telling lies, they just make us more unconscious and unaware as the entire body of humanity. Imagine the fun living in a world that told no lies. Be the change you want to see in this world by always telling the truth and valuing honesty. Do you like when people lie to you? No. The real truth is, life is too short to go around telling lies. Be real, be truthful, and stick up for what you believe in! You will benefit by enjoying a boosted level of consciousness.

7. Find and live your purpose in life

The act of searching for your purpose is great. Searching for a purpose will help you find your true purpose here on Earth. I personally believe that everyone was put here on Earth to share individuality and love in different ways. Though I haven’t yet found a clear-cut purpose in my life yet, I have always been pursuing activities that I enjoy and ones that bring me fulfillment. I think that when a person is able to find his or her purpose, it is definitely a soulful experience that will have a major impact on one’s state of consciousness.

I believe that to really understand your life’s purpose, you must be able to access a higher state of consciousness.  Eventually, when you find your purpose and are able to share it with the rest of the world, you will continue to raise your level of consciousness. The expression of your purpose will also aid in the process of raising the consciousness of our entire humanity.

8. Take conscious control of your decisions

When you take conscious control of all your decisions, you are actually activating certain neural pathways in your brain that help promote self-control, calmness, and inner peace. Every time you allow others to dictate your decisions or you don’t take full conscious responsibility for your decisions, you become less conscious over your life.

At each point throughout the day when you make a decision, make it a conscious one. What you choose to eat: whether it be meat, veggies, fruit, or brownies, make it a fully conscious decision. Whether you choose to accept or decline an invitation from a friend to go to a movie or play a sport, you should make it a conscious decision. If you consciously choose to decline the invitation, then tell your friend truthfully why you declined. If you chose not to go because you just “didn’t feel like going to a movie,” then tell your friend truthfully. It is important to be truthful with your reasoning in order to be conscious.

9. Always be open-minded

Being open-minded is a key aspect in the process of becoming a more conscious individual. When you haven’t accepted the diversity that our planet has to offer: ranging from different cultures, religions, wildlife, and beliefs, you will stay in your same state of consciousness or lower your state. When you try something new or open yourself up to accepting a new set of beliefs, you allow your consciousness to rise up through experiencing, learning, and respecting what humanity and the Earth have to offer.

Though it may be difficult for some people to be open-minded at first, especially when they have had certain beliefs ingrained in their mind since childhood, it can be done. It can definitely be a challenge to be open-minded in certain areas of life when you have been conditioned your entire life by parents, friends, society, etc. to believe a specific negative belief. Let’s use the example of being a racist.

If a child is raised with racist parents, in a racist community, where his beliefs are never challenged and he grows up and is now in his mid-20′s, it will take a lot more work to change his belief that “all black people are subhuman.” It may be extremely difficult to get this person to open his or her mind up to the fact that skin color, race, nationality, or any other denominations do not define a person.

However, once this individual is able to see beyond his or her negatively ingrained belief, he or she will become a much more conscious individual. Being open-minded doesn’t only need to be for beliefs, it can be having an open-mind to try something new such as: a new exercise routine, spiritual practice, or trying a new food. Keeping an open-mind is key when working towards a more conscious reality.

10. Pursue higher intelligence

There are many ways to become more intelligent. Not everyone is intelligent in every area of their life. Some people are more emotionally intelligent, some have a higher I.Q., while some are more spiritually intelligent. Whether you feel like you should continue to pursue a higher I.Q., work on your emotional intelligence, or become more spiritually intelligent is completely up to you. Forms of intelligence range among the most intelligent: check out the List Of Geniuses: Top 50 Influential Minds and see for yourself.

In order to become more conscious, you would be wise to choose to become more intelligent in every area of life. I’m not suggesting that you must read books to improve every area of life, but if they help you become more aware, why not do it? If you feel you should join a group of Zen meditators to deepen your spirituality, give it a shot.

If you need to work with a psychotherapist or practice biofeedback in order to become more emotionally intelligent, then I encourage you to get started. Whatever you need to do to make yourself more intelligent in any area of life that you feel is important, you should strongly encourage yourself to pursue that activity. All intelligence increases and enhancement will help you on your journey towards expanding your awareness and becoming a more conscious human being.

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