The healing power of consciousness

"When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything."
(Thich Nhat Hanh)

In this series, I want to take you on an exploration of how we can use our consciousness — the true power of our minds — to contribute to a better world. As the saying goes, "A better world starts with you." Let us explore how this applies not just to our actions, but even more profoundly to our energy.

As human beings, we are far more than physical bodies equipped with brains and hearts, thoughts and feelings. We are energy. More precisely, we are consciousness itself. This is noticeable in the ‘I’ that observes our thoughts and feelings — the awareness that witnesses our inner world. In essence, consciousness is the 'I' that observes the 'I'.

We live in an ocean of consciousness. It is the subtle substance from which the world is made, and from which we are made. In truth, we are an expression of the same consciousness we call life. Life flows through us as it flows through all that lives. The river offers a fitting metaphor: we are part of the water that makes up the river, inseparable from the flow, and equally, the river could not exist without the water that creates it.

All living beings possess a degree of awareness — the ability to sense their existence and environment, and to respond, for instance by adapting to circumstances. Crystals, for example, store and radiate energy with a frequency unique to their origin.

Humans, however, are gifted with a highly refined, self-aware consciousness, capable of intentional creation. This enables us not only to adapt to circumstances but also to consciously create, shape, and influence them. 

Through our experiences, thoughts, and feelings, we interact with the ocean of consciousness itself. Each experience we have sends feedback into this ocean, contributing to its ongoing evolution. In this way, we are active participants in the evolution of humanity.

Some forms of life store energy, while we have the extraordinary ability to direct it.

How do we influence energy? How do we change circumstances?
The familiar saying "Energy flows where attention goes" captures it beautifully.

By becoming aware of our thoughts, feelings, and senses, and by consciously choosing those that align with the reality we wish to create, we shape both our personal experience and the collective consciousness.

Everything we experience mirrors what we hold within. The solution to the world’s problems does not lie outside of us. It lies within. By becoming aware of our inner world, and by realising that consciousness can shift in an instant, we rediscover our innate ability to shape our lives and contribute to reshaping the collective field we are part of.

All of humanity is interconnected, forming what is known as the collective consciousness. Every inner shift we make — no matter how small — has a ripple effect on the totality.
This is how we can help create a better world:

by uplifting our inner state, shifting our frequency, and holding a vision of the world as already healed, already whole.
Rather than focusing on problems, or even merely focusing on solutions, we can make a quantum leap by embodying the reality in which the problems have already been resolved. We live as if heaven on earth has already manifested.
When we focus on a problem, even if we are trying to solve it, our attention empowers it and helps to sustain its existence. Only what we focus upon can continue to exist.

When we live as though the desired outcome has already come to pass, our actions arise from an intention of very high vibration. On the physical plane, we may still take steps towards resolution, yet these steps are powered by the inner certainty that the world we dream of is already real. This state of being can create profound change.

It is important to distinguish between taking action while focusing on solving a problem — which sustains the problem’s energy — and taking action while living in the inner knowing that the problem has dissolved. In the second case, we move from a place of trust and creative power, influencing the collective consciousness at its deepest levels.

Our actions are powered by our thoughts, and our thoughts are influenced by our feelings. Thoughts and feelings are deeply entwined, each giving birth to the other.
When we dwell in worry, fear, anger, frustration, or other low-frequency states, we feed the very realities we wish to move away from.

If we feel anger about injustices in the world, we feed the energy of injustice.
If we fear the possibility of war, we contribute our energy to that possibility.
If we believe in 'evil forces', we empower them through our belief.

In truth, nothing but the divine light is a real force. Whenever we believe something outside of ourselves has power over us, we give our own power away.
Remember, your energy becomes part of the collective field. You can picture your inner state as a colour radiating out into the world.
What colour do you want to add to the collective painting of humanity?

To uplift our consciousness and become active co-creators of a better world, it can be helpful to engage in practices that cultivate inner awareness and higher vibrational states. Practices such as mindful breathing, stillness, prayer, meditation, visualisation, and spending time in nature, help to anchor us in the present moment and raise our frequency. 

Each moment spent in awareness is a gift to yourself and to the world.

In the coming weeks I will be sharing gentle, powerful practices and guided meditations to help you nurture and expand your consciousness.
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