1. Treat yourself with respect

Having respect for yourself and your actions will ultimately boost the amount of love that you express towards yourself and others. Respecting your thoughts will significantly help you make progress in life with less stress. You will naturally become more conscious of yourself and understand why treating yourself with respect is so powerful. Learn to respect your body by providing it with healthy food and nutrition. Learn to respect your mind by equipping it with intelligence and spirituality. Learn to respect your unique personality by surrounding yourself with loving friends, quality relationships, and a stimulating environment.

Anytime you ingest illicit substances, besides usually killing your brain cells, you are lowering the level of respect for yourself. Make wise, respectful decisions that reflect your values and have strong respect for your personal beliefs. Treating others with respect will help you become a more conscious human being too, but before you respect others properly, you must first learn to show the utmost respect towards yourself.

2. Practice forgiveness: yourself and others

Forgiving yourself can be very difficult sometimes: especially if you are operating in a lower state of consciousness. Realize that in order to rise up, advance, and become a more conscious person, you must be compassionate and forgiving towards yourself; and that applies to all areas of life. Any hateful thoughts or pent up negative emotions that you may be holding towards yourself need to be released. Negative thoughts and emotions can easily lower our level of consciousness if we do not practice compassion and forgiveness.

My favorite way to forgive myself is to go into a state of meditation, with an initial primary focus on my breathing. I then go deeper into relaxation and visualize myself and surround any hateful or negative thoughts about myself with love, light, and compassion. As I come out of my meditation, I focus and intently visualize myself being fully healed. After I consciously heal myself, I shift my focus back to my breathing. When I open my eyes and add a synchronized, low beta brainwave to my consciousness. I do this by either: talking to myself or another person about my experience during meditation, or writing a documentation of what I experienced during meditation. Both are done done immediately after my meditation to ensure proper awareness of the healing that took place.

No matter what actions lead to an argument, abuse, or a hateful relationship, it is important to learn to forgive others too. Even your most evil nemesis needs to be forgiven for their actions for you to advance consciously. A very effective way to forgive others that I’ve found is through meditation. Allow yourself to go fairly deep into meditation, while keeping a vivid picture of that person and your experience with them in your mind. Go deeper, become more relaxed, and picture yourself forgiving the person in which you held negative emotions towards.

Forgiving others is extremely important in the process of any spiritual, mental, and emotional growth. The act of compassionately sending love towards those you may hate, creates a better, more healthier planet and allows you to rise up above any negativity. Even if the person in which you forgive still holds a grudge, don’t worry about it, move on and in time realize that they too will recover to advance in spirituality and consciousness. There’s absolutely no need to force someone to forgive you: be the change you want to see in the world by forgiving them and moving on with your own life.

3. Cultivate a high-performance mind

Cultivating a high-performance mind is a very fun, invigorating process that involves consciously accessing the brainwave state that you consciously choose, whenever you feel appropriate for a certain situation. I, myself have been developing a high-performance mind state by using meditation, biofeedback cues, and by using techniques from the book The High Performance Mind by Anna Wise. I am still in the process of conducting more research on how to consciously access certain states that are not discussed in the book.

For those who want to understand more about developing a high-performance mind, I recommend that you go check out the book The High Performance Mind by Anna Wise. It is written in a very logical, step by step manner and is extremely easy to understand. It covers all the basics towards the development, cultivation, and spiritual side-effects of a high-performance state. The primary focus of developing this highly conscious state, as explained by the book, is to develop self-mastery. So, should you choose to develop a higher state by using the teachings discussed in Anna’s book, I have no doubt that you will make significant advances in your state of consciousness. In a later post, I will go more in-depth on the subject, discuss my personal experiences, and answer any questions that my readers may have.

4. Connect through prayer

The act of simply closing your eyes, folding your hands and saying a prayer will raise your level of consciousness. There are many different ways to practice prayer and there are many different practices, that when combined with prayer, enhance the power of your message. When I practice prayer, I enjoy combining advanced visualization techniques with the message that I’m trying to convey.

For simply raising your consciousness, I personally like the idea of sharing prayers of gratitude. Though I adopted this method from a Tony Robbins program, I have made slight adjustments to my technique. I begin the process by reflecting on my life and consciously recognizing and feeling grateful for everything that I have been given and everything that I’ve created. Next, I branch outward to reflect on family members that I’m grateful for, friends that I’m grateful for, old friends that I no longer connect with, deceased relatives that positively impacted my life, and the wonderment of planet Earth.

That is my personal account and use of prayer. You can use prayer however you want and it will be a very effective tool towards becoming a more conscious human being. In my experience, what you get out of prayer, is a direct result of the type of prayer, and form of energy that you insert into the prayer. Overall, prayer is a great experience that has potential to aid in your conscious awareness.

5. Challenge your belief system

This one can be difficult for many individuals due to the influence of imprinted beliefs by their parents or guardians during childhood. In my experience, changing beliefs and experimenting with adopting new beliefs has been an extremely effective way to raise my consciousness. Keeping the same beliefs certainly isn’t as exciting as trying something new and consciously creating change in my life. If you are going to challenge your belief system, I highly recommend targeting one key belief that you have considered changing. The belief may be negative, and it may be positive depending on your personality and mental state. I find it the most challenging to change negative beliefs to more positive ones, but anything goes.

Some examples of beliefs that you could change include: dietary (changing to a vegetarian), spiritual (from Christianity to Atheism – or vice versa), emotional (from sadness to happiness), mental (from dumb to smart), etc. The possibilities are literally endless. There are many effective methods that have been devised to aid in the process of changing your beliefs – I will address many in later articles. For now, do your best to implement a new belief, and use your imagination with how you might do it. I think you’ll be surprised at how high your success rate is if you stick with it.

My most recent implementation of a new belief has been going quite well. This past Monday, I decided to implement the belief that: my life is easy. Today being Saturday, I am still focused on this single belief and have noticed shifts in some of my other beliefs in reflection of this single belief change. For now, if you are interested in changing your beliefs, I highly recommend sticking with changing just one belief and letting it completely unfold into your consciousness until you are satisfied. Then choose another new belief when you’re ready and continue the process. By changing your belief system and experimenting with new beliefs, you make yourself more conscious of life’s endless possibilities.

6. Befriend like-minded individuals

On your journey towards becoming a more conscious individual, befriending like-minded people can be extremely helpful. If you are going through many spiritual, emotional, and mental changes without the company of others, the process can be much more difficult and confusing than when you have a guide, guru, or some friends that are traveling at a similar pace to you. Finding like-minded individuals to travel through life with will naturally raise your state of awareness, especially if they are at a more advanced stage of life than yourself; you can really learn a lot.

Coincidentally, being around others who are at a lower state of processing can be mentally, emotionally, and spiritually draining. Find people to be around that allow you to express your true self and personality. True friends that are always encouraging, optimistic, and positive about your life and your journey are the ones in which you should associate yourself, and identify with. Not only is being around like-minded individuals healthy, and optimal for your consciousness, it will ultimately give you more joy in life!

7. Pursue a path of spirituality

Pursuing a path of spirituality and becoming more spiritual will aid you considerably in the process of becoming a more conscious human being. Being spiritual doesn’t necessarily mean being religious and practicing a religion. However, a religion can help you with your quest towards becoming more spiritual. There isn’t really a right or wrong activity that a person needs to do to advance spiritually.

I’ve personally found meditation to be the most helpful exercise with cultivating and advancing my state of spirituality, but many people are different. Some prefer prayer, others find that the simple act of going to church on Sunday gives them spiritual satisfaction. Whatever exercise or action gives you spiritual satisfaction, I highly recommend that you continue the process – it will ultimately make you more conscious. With that said, don’t be afraid to add a new spiritual practice to your arsenal – you never know what may be most effective or a life changing experience.

8. Express gratitude on a daily basis

Expressing gratitude on a daily basis is a very positive, fulfilling exercise to practice. Ways to express gratitude on a daily basis include: giving thanks for your food, expressing gratitude for yourself and others through prayer (as discussed earlier), complimenting others, and letting another person know that you are thankful for having them in your life. There are many little things to be grateful for, just like there are many big things to be grateful for. Find a way to be thankful for them all!

Find a way to share and express your gratitude with other people too! When you let another person know that you are grateful for them, you build a deeper sense of trust, understanding, and love for that person. They will probably come to really enjoy you too. By sharing and expressing gratitude, you feel extremely satisfied and will become more consciously aware of the things that you truly appreciate in life.

9. Make yourself happy

What sort of things make you happy? The answer is usually different for everyone. You can do yourself a favor right now by making a long list of everything that makes you happy in life. Maybe certain actions that you take such as: exercising your body, the act of flirting, having sexual intercourse with someone close, watching sports, listening to music, choosing happy thoughts, or simply eating an ice cream cone make you especially happy. Whatever makes you happy, you should act on. Making yourself happy and content with who you are allows you to spread, direct, and easily share your happiness with others.

Acting on things that make you happy gives you more conscious control over your life, and makes you want to continue on the process towards becoming more conscious. Happiness involves the act of focusing your awareness on what makes you happy. When you focus on things that make you happy, you naturally become happy. Feeling and experiencing happiness in your life also will give you the powerful drive that it takes to make yourself more conscious. Cherish happiness, celebrate happiness, feel happiness, experience happiness, and believe in your personal happiness.

10. Act on your desires

Simply having any form of desire will raise your consciousness. Desire encourages us to take action to advance consciously. The process of attaining what you desire will teach you a lot about your life and lessons that you can learn along the way. With the experience that comes from learning lessons along the way on the path towards obtaining your desires, you raise your consciousness. As discussed earlier, increasing your knowledge and learning life lessons will raise your awareness.

The desire to become a more conscious individual alone is a form of desire. Realize that if you desire to become more conscious, you are naturally raising your consciousness. Along the way, you will learn a lot of valuable information about yourself, your state of consciousness, and your ability to act on desires. Always think of having desires as a good thing in life. The state of apathy, or not caring about your consciousness, will naturally lower your consciousness. Desire is a powerful way to raise your consciousness.

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