1. Boost your brain power and functioning

There are many helpful exercises that you can do to boost your brain power and overall level of functioning. One of my most popular articles, 50 Ways To Boost Your Brain Power, should get you on the right track if you are currently confused about the topic or don’t know where to start. Raising your level of consciousness will naturally boost your overall brain power, and boosting your brain power will raise your level of consciousness; both affect each other in direct proportion.

As you learn to enter a higher state of mental functioning and understand the effects resulting from a more powerful brain, you will have a much easier time dealing with reality and connect deeper with deeper parts of yourself. Your senses of taste, hearing, smell, vision, and touch become significantly enhanced. As your brain power increases, so do the baseline levels of various helpful neurotransmitters, making conscious thinking and awareness a much easier state to access. You’d be very surprised at the large number of exercises that you can do to raise your consciousness and brain power. Simply cutting unhealthy substances from your diet will have a profound impact on your mental wellbeing. You be the judge as to what works best for you and stick with it.

2. Take full control of your lifestyle

Are you living the lifestyle that you feel is most beneficial for your mental and physical wellbeing? Maybe there are certain bad habits that you need to get rid of or certain good habits that you’d like to implement in your daily routine. Don’t be afraid to act now and make necessary positive changes in your lifestyle to help you take full control. In my opinion, it definitely helps to befriend like-minded individuals who have similar interests and mindsets towards making positive lifestyle changes.

One example of an easy lifestyle change that most people can make is: adding a daily exercise routine to their schedule. Let’s face it, most people don’t workout everyday, which can definitely turn into 2 days, then 3 days, a week, a month, then an unhealthy habit. Consider either talking to a friend about going for a walk each day – and having a nice talk while working out, or purchase that Y.M.C.A. membership you’ve long thought about. Next, schedule a time period that will work best during your day for you to go do some exercise. Any amount of exercising, no matter how small, is better than none! And adding a daily exercise routine to your schedule is just one of many positive changes that you have potential to make!

Think positively about your lifestyle change and continue the process by making more changes. Once you are able to effectively able to make one lifestyle change, add another positive one. The process of making lifestyle changes gets much easier as you continue the process. Initially it may take some self-motivation and solid support from friends. As you raise your level of consciousness to a higher level of functioning by making lifestyle changes, future changes become quite simple.

3. Choose empowering beliefs

In the process of changing beliefs, choose beliefs that are empowering to you at your core. A good way to know what belief will be empowering is to simply ask yourself how you feel about adding the new belief. If you feel a strong connection with a new belief, such as feelings of excitement, it will probably be a very good choice that is very easy to implement. If you aren’t feeling any connection with a new belief, it may be best to wait a bit.

If you tell yourself that you want to change beliefs about “being sad,” to a state of “being happy,” do you feel excited about the change? Does it feel like this belief change is the best you can make at this current moment? These are some questions that you could be asking yourself. Often times when choosing new beliefs to implement, we fantasize about an optimal state of happiness and want to change our emotional beliefs to “I am happy all the time.”

There is nothing wrong with this change, in fact, it is quite a great change to make. However, it may be better to work your way along more slowly and adopt some simpler, more basic beliefs and advance consciously before making the change to “I am happy all the time” – a belief that can be a difficult transition for those in lower levels of consciousness. If you feel that you can tackle adding bigger beliefs to your belief system, go for it; more power to you – literally! Adding empowering beliefs will help you advance in your state of awareness, and on your quest to become a more conscious human being. Make a conscious effort to purge all beliefs that are less than satisfying. Understand also that as you become a more conscious human being, changing your beliefs will become much easier and a more natural process.

4. Avoid physical fighting and abuse

Physical fighting stems from emotional misunderstandings, hatred, and negative emotional expressions. Fighting can be said to be the opposite of peace. Physical fighting and other forms of abuse can really do a great job at distracting us from becoming more conscious human beings. Becoming more conscious involves being peaceful, understanding, loving, and the ability to work out disagreements in a healthy, conscious form of self-expression.

I personally don’t encourage any form of fighting because it usually involves emotional negativity, hatred, and sets a bad example. Even in boxing though there may not initially be any dispute, both parties end up putting their bodies and brains up for potential damage. Allowing yourself to be physically abused or mentally abused will also lower your state of awareness. One hard punch to the head and no doubt brain cells will die. Many punches to the head and you risk developing devastating diseases, disorders, and tumors.

Allow yourself to rise above any forms of violence and work smart in your effort to become more conscious. If you live in an abusive environment, get out. Call for help, talk to someone about it, and get yourself to a safer, healthier environment. If you know someone who gets abused, offer them help and support by getting the law involved. Anything that you can do to stop physical fighting and abuse will ultimately make you and the individuals involved more consciously aware.

5. Be aware and accepting of your emotions

No matter your current emotions, you will profoundly help yourself if you are accepting of them. Some people are in deep states of depression, others are happy, fearful, content, etc. No matter how you feel or how difficult your emotions feel, a great way to cope with them and become more consciously aware is to accept them, feel them, and understand them. We experience certain emotions for a reason: whether we are aware of the reason or not.

Going through life resisting your emotions and trapping them inside yourself makes life much more difficult. Trying to escape from our emotions lowers our awareness. Many illicit drug addicts, alcoholics, and people on psychiatric medication don’t realize that they are only running from their emotions and ultimately lowering their awareness. If they would learn to consciously accept what they are feeling and take steps to move forward and express themselves, their lives would gradually become much easier. Resisting our emotions lowers our level of consciousness. When you accept what you feel and consciously understand why you feel a certain emotion, your level of consciousness rises.

6. Speak compassionately; be conscious of your words

When having conversation with others, do you choose your words wisely? Or are you the type of person who could care less what you say? The truth is, people who choose their words wisely and consciously think during conversation are the ones who show greater respect for themselves and more compassion for others. Those who care less about what they say are much more prone to lowering their level of consciousness. They often will intentionally, or unintentionally, offend others and themselves, both of which will lower their state of functioning.

Choosing your words wisely will attract positive conversation, and others will naturally find you much easier to relate to rather than those who could care less about their speech. All of the benefits that result from choosing your words wisely and having intelligent conversations will ultimately benefit your consciousness and the consciousness of those that you interact with. Make a conscious effort to speak compassionately and healthy results will follow.

7. Think positive, act positive: be positive

Being a positive influence sets a good example for others and for yourself. It is also very beneficial for raising your consciousness and the consciousness of others. Make an effort to replace any negative thoughts with more positive ones. Thinking positive really rubs off on your own consciousness and making it a habit is very beneficial for your mental health. Acting in a positive manner around others sets a great example. The act of being positive entails both thinking, and acting positive.

Positivity and states of being positive are direct effects of raising your consciousness. I highly recommend trying to be a more positive person in all areas of life; you will notice and feel the beneficial changes in your awareness. It also will feel phenomenal to know that your positivity makes your consciousness expand and causes the consciousness of others to be more receptive to positivity each time they associate with you!

8. Have sexual intercourse

Having sexual intercourse is a great way to spread and share your love with another person. The best way to have sexual intercourse is with another positive, healthy, person in which you fully love and trust. Having sexual intercourse is a loving way of transferring and sharing energy with another person. No matter who you have sexual intercourse with, there can be many conscious benefits.

As mentioned in the article 20 Ways To Murder Stress: Killer Relaxation Tips, sex is an extremely effective way to reduce stress. Reducing stress and becoming a calmer individual is just one way in which sex helps raise your awareness. Being with a loving partner can be an extremely loving, soul-bonding experience. The deep connection that sexual intercourse can provide is literally beyond expression through words. Besides being a great experience, it will boost your current level of consciousness provided the experience was one of mutual love.

9. Identify with your soul

Realize that at your core, you are a spiritual being who is living in a physical body. In lower stages of consciousness, this concept may seem unrealistic and may be very difficult to grasp. For the most part though, once you become aware that you are a spiritual beings that have manifested in physical form, you can learn to identify better with your soul. Identifying with our soul will ultimately make us more aware of our soul’s interests.

I personally believe that the best exercise for identifying with our soul is meditation. With that said, other practices such as: self-hypnosis and yoga have been proven to be extremely effective. Besides practicing meditation, feel free to supplement the idea of identifying with your soul while in an awake state. In essence, as you become better at identifying with your soul, you become better at working your way up the mountain of consciousness.

10. See perceived faults of others as a mirror image

When you look at the faults of others and identify faults in other people, use them as a teaching tool for yourself. The people that are in your life weren’t put there by mistake, they were put there to teach you something about yourself. Other individuals have the potential to teach us more about ourselves. Many times when we look at what we perceive as faults in others, we probably carry the same problems within ourself. When we do notice faults of others consistently, it is often that they are a mirror image of ourselves being shifted into personal focus.

We can choose to deny our faults and continue to blame others for theirs, or we can rise up and better ourselves. Raising consciousness involves never looking down on others or perceiving them as any less worthy than yourself. Our ego sometimes has potential to push us down the path of blaming others and creating disputes. By being able to take personal responsibility for what is being displayed by others into your conscious focus, you can take the information and make very healthy changes.

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