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What is Higher Consciousness?
Do you think your life has been a blissful, smooth experience filled with whatever you want? Or do you meet uncanny people and have had the most unfortunate experiences?
How you perceive life experiences is based on your consciousness. Simply put, consciousness is defined as your awareness of life. Higher consciousness means more awareness and conscious decision-making in life.
Consciousness can have varied interpretations, including the state of wakefulness or managing thoughts, feelings, and environment. Higher consciousness, however, is beyond that. It is tapping into the unlimited nature of your higher self, bringing in the energy and wisdom of your soul and universe. Consciousness includes the dimensions of aligning body, mind, and soul.
Evolution to Higher Consciousness
There are four well-established levels of Consciousness to understand your current energies.
Don’t worry if you are in the initial stages. We have all been there at some point in life. What is more important is identifying where you currently are and what steps you take every day to move to the next stage.
Level 1: Victim Stage
The first and foremost state of consciousness is the feeling that you are or for the most part, have been a victim in life. Do you think your life is a series of bad news waiting around the corner? If you can’t help but feel sorry for the mess which is present in your life, you may be stuck in the victim mode of consciousness.
Signs you are in the victimized stage
Here is what you would experience when you are in this stage:
- You think you have little or virtually no control over your negative circumstances.
- You feel that more mishaps happen in your life. You think you find little support in bad situations.
- You face numerous challenges and unfulfilling relations, both at work and in personal life.
- You always blame people for their actions or inaction. You have a high ego and expect people to apologize for their mistakes.
- You find it hard to regain control and try again after a setback.
How to move to the Higher Consciousness level
If you are stuck in the victim mode, here is what you can try to get over it.
- Take responsibility: Analyze and work on effective measures to act on your problems. Instead of looking out for loopholes, chart your plan of action in any difficult situation.
- Put yourself in other’s shoes: Do not judge the person who has wronged you or someone whose behavior seems to create challenges for you. Placing yourself in their shoes can work wonders for you to understand their part of the story and, more importantly, to forgive them.
- Practice self-love: Know that you deserve better than the situations you are in. Give yourself compliments, celebrate your accomplishments, and find your close-knit group of friends to hang out with.
- Practice Journaling: Journal your thoughts, dreams, and aspirations. Writing and detailing your plans can bring more clarity and defined steps to attain them.
- Stick by your Values: Have you ever wondered about your belief system? What are those five values which are non-negotiable for you? Identify your values and live by them.
- Empathy: Develop your emotional intelligence and empathy at work and in relationships.
- Try Affirmations: Practice positive affirmation, like ‘I am a powerful soul.’
Level 2: Taking Control
Transitioning from the victim mentality, the next stage of higher consciousness level is taking control of your life outcomes. You now acknowledge that you have the power to manifest your desires and take proactive measures to make your dreams your reality. This consciousness stage prioritizes hard work and effective visualization methods to remove all challenges on your way.
Signs you are in this stage of consciousness
As someone who is keen on controlling life, you would have the following beliefs:
- You know exactly where your life is heading. You have your days and weeks planned out for you.
- You don’t give up easily and are highly focused. You are a believer in hard work to accomplish your goals.
- You do not like anything unpredictable or do not prefer walking in unknown territory.
How to move to the Higher Consciousness Level
If you are stuck in this consciousness level, here is what it takes to move forward
- Ego Shift: With a high ego, you are more focused on your needs and expectations, compared to those around you. It is likely that if you are in the second stage of consciousness, your actions are driven by your ego.
- Let go of Control: Control is deeply rooted in your fears. Are you someone who plans an hourly itinerary for your travel, ensuring you are absolutely sure of how the day will unfold? The problem with control is that you limit your experience and thus your growth. Let go of the urge to control your life and learn from the exposure to the unknown.
- Practice Detachment: Do not remain attached to the outcomes of your efforts. Focus on the task at hand, and do not expect anything in return.
- Balance your 5 elements: The 5 elements that create your being, including water, earth, space, air, and fire, have a deep impact on your physical, mental, and spiritual states. Explore water healing and grounding exercises to heal your water and earth elements, which form the major part of your body.
- Balance your Chakras: Most of your blocked energies, emotions, and physical ailments have their solutions in balancing the chakras. Leverage light meditation and chanting to balance your chakras.
Level 3: Embracing the Life Flow
Attempting to control it all in life can be very challenging, and thus the second level of consciousness can get tiring after some point. As you progress beyond this consciousness, you recognize that life doesn’t necessarily require all that control. In fact, embracing uncertainty fosters greater tranquility and harmony.
Signs you are in the third stage of consciousness
- You believe that life isn’t a random series of actions but is defined by validated reasons, beautifully placed to ensure your progress.
- You know your life purpose and make conscious decisions to attain it.
- You have complete faith in the power of higher energy or the universe.
- You are more compassionate and empathetic than ever before.
- Your desires come true more effortlessly. And when things aren’t in your favor, you can still foresee opportunities for growth. You are a believer of divine intervention.
How to move to the Higher Consciousness Level
Being in the third level of consciousness highlights the kind of work you have done on yourself to reach here. Take pride in your readiness to move to the next level, one that involves realizing your oneness with the universe and, more importantly, sharing your learnings with others. When you consistently live in the third level of consciousness, you would find yourself much more evolved than most people around you.
There are no defined ways to shift your consciousness from the third level to the next one. Meditation and a deeper connection with the higher self can facilitate the journey forward. All you need to do is remain open to interacting with the universe and continue what you are already doing.
Level 4: The Oneness
Here is the final level of higher consciousness- to experience the oneness with one and all. This is your window to experience limitless awareness. You feel you are one with the creation and can connect at a much deeper level with the animals, land, forest, water, mountain, and just about everything.
You now understand how individual actions aren’t limited to just one person but have a larger impact on humanity. With the realization of how we all impact each other, you take utmost responsibility to make this world a better place. You encourage others to increase their consciousness, and silently or actively take a part in transforming the collective consciousness of all of us. You believe in visioning your life, the impact of which is beyond you.
It isn’t necessary that you will consistently remain in one particular level of consciousness. Instead, you would often find your reactions shifting between the first three levels of consciousness. The loss of a dear one may force you back to think in the victim state, or your passion to volunteer and work towards women empowerment will bring you to level three.
Check how you respond to most of the life challenges and see where your consciousness level is. What’s more important is to identify the set of trigger incidents or people who drive you to lower or higher consciousness. Seek your learnings and make a conscious effort to respond better and raise consciousness.
Timeless and Most Effective Measures for Higher Consciousness
Irrespective of your level of consciousness, here are the three most powerful and transformative tools to raise your consciousness.
Meditation
Take a break from the constant chattering of your brain, and spend some time dwelling in the stillness within. Meditation is known to have incredible benefits of improving your mental and emotional health, increasing awareness, and even strengthening your immune system and improving memory. You can practice any kind of meditation, from breath meditation and chanting to mindfulness exercises. The impact of all of them is the same- a more calm and composed state of mind and a higher consciousness.
Love and Gratitude
We have by far underestimated the power of love. Love brings with it the highest vibrational energy, the expression and realization of which can raise your consciousness. However, since our definition of love is so narrow, most of us haven’t really experienced unconditional love. Unconditional love begins with self-love and encompasses others without expectations and exceptions. Love isn’t transactory in nature, and thus should not be evaluated under the lens of give and take. Practice giving unconditional, universal love to one and all, and you will attain the highest level of consciousness.
Gratitude, again, is one of the simple yet one of the most powerful ways to raise vibrations. With gratitude, you appreciate what you have in life and invite more of it. When you learn to practice gratitude, you begin to notice the good in the worst of life challenges, which is the backbone of higher consciousness.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is imperative to move to higher consciousness. This is because forgiveness helps to get over the emotions of lower consciousness, including anger, revenge, guilt, and grudges. Forgiving yourself and everyone else of their wrongdoing instantly raise your vibrations.
Conclusion
Attaining higher consciousness doesn’t come easy and doesn’t have any shortcuts. It is a long, promising journey that takes its own time to move from one level to another.
You may find yourself helplessly stuck to a particular level. Do not beat yourself as consciousness, many times, is beyond control and governed by our inner child experiences, past lives, and who we inherently are. Be patient with yourself and make consistent, conscious choices to raise consciousness. The golden mantra for higher consciousness lies in practicing meditation, feeling grateful, and forgiving one and all.
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