Saturday, March 14, 2009

Consciousness: Directing your own Evolution


Consciousness: Directing Your Own Evolution.mp3
3 Minutes 58 Seconds. Read by my UK friend Elizabeth. She's a robot.

by Aaron Matlen

Are you just your body, bound by limits? Or are you consciousness, limitless in potential?

Each moment is an opportunity to reinvent yourself, reinforce the positive, and transform the negative.

Our mind is more complex and special than any other combination of matter. You are consciousness, dancing within a growing network of experience, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. Respect yourself. You experience within what you have created for yourself, what is in your mind, so create a beautiful world.

Reality and emotion are not the enemy. There is no "counter" to your world, reality cannot negate you. The beautiful world you create is you, which is your relationship to everything. The truth is still the truth, emotions are still emotions, but you can be anything.

There is a mind beyond the surface level of momentary experience composed of the structure of beliefs and dominating emotional perspectives that discovers what truly influences conscious experience. Lets call this the "Natural Mind." It is your inclinations before experience.

By using consciousness with this higher awareness of your influences, you can create an overall structure of mind, or Natural Mind, (beliefs, emotional perspective, values) that is conducive to conscious experience. In other words, a mind that naturally minimizes suffering and maximizes joy. Your natural mind works for you instead of against! Tempts not! Promotes your values and positive emotions as a natural inclination!

To enjoy a moment to the detriment of your overall self is a mind in negation. It puts you at odds with yourself by believing you are momentary consciousness. It is not just what is good for this moment that matters, but what is good for improving all moments.

We only "experience" through consciousness, but our whole mind is more than that. One part of you is this fleeting conscious experience, but that experience is transformed and digested by your natural mind, the abyss all thoughts/emotions are sucked in to. Experience is turned into thoughts/feelings about yourself, thoughts/feelings about your experience, which are influenced by the overall mind structure. What "you" are is this entire thinking reaction, not just your conscious experience. Conscious experience is your ego: "what you think you are."

You are deeper than the experience of "consciousness" at any one point. You are not a moment. You are an entire world of interconnected thought. Negativity cannot touch you, for no emotion or experience is bigger than you are. It is only one part of you, to be digested. Thus there is no need to force the world to be good or eliminate emotions or deny anything.

Having a positive nature (predisposition towards positive) exists on a different level than what "truth" is or the spectrum of emotions we experience. You will still feel everything as you do now, but your reaction to it, how you "digest" it will change. Thus transforming the emotion you're experiencing, adding new value.

What you are today is an immense depth. More vast than any ocean, yet only able to convey this depth through the funnel of the body within the competitive network of reality. We feel small when we judge ourselves by our affect in reality. By the impression we "see" ourselves making. But the impression you make on reality is the infinite depth within you, which is every bit as true as what you see. You are never small.

What could you possibly deliver to life that is not ten trillion times smaller than what you already are inside? With that in mind, there is also no limit to how much you can change reality and others with such depth.

It truly is amazing the freedom consciousness has to be the director of its own evolution. Most people do not keep their full self in perspective and live moment by moment. There is a such an infinite divisibility of conscious experience, it is easy to get lost in it. But deep down we are all bonded by this spectrum of emotions and beliefs we hold collectively. Inside yourself, you are bonded to such beliefs and emotions. Recognize this aspect as also the real you and let conscious experience become it. Let consciousness be selfish for your beliefs/emotions, not your ego.

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