Expanding Consciousness Begins with Self Awareness

The Tao has a desire for us to expand consciousness and awareness, which changes, expands, and fine tunes the energies of your soul. The process of expanding our consciousness and awareness is how we change our “inner subtle energies” that can eventually help us become enlightened beings.  

Expanding our consciousness and awareness takes place through the journey of our life experience. Living on this planet and overcoming the challenges as well as enjoying points of joy and pleasure all contribute to the learning process and help us to gain more insight, knowledge, and wisdom. But being tuned in and aware is where more growth and consciousness takes place. It is in that inner realm where our thoughts, feelings, desires, choices, decisions, and actions reside that are one of the keys to help us learn, grow, understand, and expand our consciousness, and when this happens, it is like a new energetic thread within our actual soul is created and then lights up. It changes who we are.

There are different ways to help us tune in and pay attention to the subtle going ons within us. This includes paying attention to your  thoughts, feelings, impressions, desires and decisions.  To do this you usually need to pause and spend time alone to allow the "subtle you" to come forward or to be more aware of this presence. Some will meditate to allow time and space for this connection and communication with themselves. Others will carve out time in nature to allow this self reflection. Some will use a creative process, such as writing, or drawing, or with music or art. Some will use exercise, such as horseback riding, bicycling, or jogging, for example. There are countless ways to set aside time and space for oneself and allow that free-flow of thought, feelings, and impressions to come forward.  

The important thing is to learn how to connect and commune with your thoughts, feelings, and impressions. The next step is to learn WHICH thoughts, feelings and impressions have value to you and are keepers and to then discard the ones you don't want or need. 

The process of tuning into our inner-self and then learning how to discern the gems of our inner thoughts and feelings we want to embrace is how we get to know our soul and its needs and desires. This is how we expand our consciousness and awareness. 

This whole process of self communing and understanding our subtle nature is a key to becoming more aware and enlightened.