What does Expanded Consciousness mean?
What does Expanded Consciousness mean?
For most people the spectrum of conscious awareness is very small.
Think about this – a child (or an adult) that sits in front of a TV and becomes mesmerized has a very limited span of awareness. By focusing his/her attention on a single point (the TV), he/she is excluding the awareness of other things (from one’s immediate physical surroundings and other mental activity).
This is why we as humans love to be entertained. It allows us to drown out everything else that may force us to become aware of the things we would rather not have to deal with.
Smaller consciousness = easily amused, but lives life without much control (responding to subconscious programming)
To expand ones conscious means to be able to be simultaneously aware of more. Not just more of what is around us, but (more importantly) more of what is happening at the mental level.
It also means to broaden the gap between the normal awakened mind and the closed off subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is where our demons live. It is where we store those programs and conditions that drive us.
Think of it this way. The relationship of our conscious mind (everyday awareness or top level thoughts and experiences) and our subconscious mind (memories, beliefs, the things we suppress and repress) has been likened to an iceberg. An iceberg only has 10% exposed above the water (what we can see and deal with), and 90% lies beneath the water (what we can’t directly see or deal with).
To further help illustrate: A person who has had any negative or traumatic experiences such as being bitten by a dog or being made fun of as a child has developed negative associations to protect them from the same type of future harm. As an adult, this person lives controlled by these conditions. Whenever a person sees a dog, they become fearful and feel the need to leave the situation. They may not know consciously why. They just do. This is living by reactive conditioning that they have no control over.
This is why one would want to expand their consciousness.
The more conscious awareness you have, the more prone you will be to living a life under conscious control.
You can easily eliminate the haunting past conditioning that quietly eats you up inside or drives you to do the things you really don’t want to do such as uncontrollably acting out your addictions and compulsions.
You can do this because as these conditions become exposed you can easily eliminate them by dealing with them face to face (in the Light of Consciousness as the mystics say).
The smaller your consciousness is, the more likely you will miss out on all this life has to offer.
Liken this to having an annoying itch that you can’t seem to scratch while walking through the most beautiful garden in the world – you will not be able to appreciate all that the garden has to offer because this tiny little nagging itch monopolizes all of your (narrow) attention.
To have an expanded consciousness means you are more “conscious” of what was once sub conscious, as well as what is all around you.
To have an expanded consciousness means you are more likely to be pro-active and less likely to be re-active. Those who are re-active are operating based on past conditioning.
Expanded consciousness = not re-acting to programming, more at peace, more aware of surroundings and internal conditions (and exercising control over them).
And most importantly, metaphysically speaking, any deep seated beliefs can prevent you from all the “having, being and doing” that you want in life. In order to maximize and quicken the LOA (law of attraction) it is imperative to clean out all that is blocking you from what you are trying to attract into your life.
Let’s take the iceberg analogy and change it up. Visualize now an iceberg that is 50% above water and 50% below water. You can see how the once repressed memory of a dog bite has controlled you and you can now over rule that condition with better logic. 
With this new image – do you see why you would want to expand your consciousness?
So how do you expand your consciousness?
The simple answer is meditation and practicing the art of mindfulness. Both of these, if practiced everyday, will have a profound and positive impact on your life.
But understand it can take a long time get the hang of it. The more you practice and commit yourself to it, the faster you will see results.
Also be prepared for some house cleaning. Just like cleaning out your closet or weed filled garden can be messy at first – so is cleaning out your subconscious mind.
This post completely over-simplifies a topic of immense complexity and one of the most daring endeavors a human being can undertake. But we have to start somewhere and I wanted to introduce the basic concepts to those who may be unfamiliar with the role it can play in their life.
It takes complete dedication on your part and may even require the help of those above you (spiritually speaking).
But know this – nothing could be more worth the effort!
Stay tuned for more posts about meditation and other techniques such a releasing and hypnosis – and most importantly prayer to start the process.
- Ciao