"Checking Out"... Conscious Unconsciousness

Today I woke up feeling mentally fatigued and basically not wanting to be "responsible".   I gave myself permission to become consciously unconscious for the rest of the day (until just now).  What that meant for me was to go on with my day, but with an agreement with myself to not think harder than I had to, not "process" anything that didn't need to be solved today, and to just let my mind take a rest for the day.

Let's face it, consciousness takes energy.  Those who choose what I call "radical consciousness" spend the majority of their waking hours maintaining a stance of constant awareness.  Every once in a while we need to 'check out' and allow ourselves to just mentally 'chill'.   However, we need to be discerning about what we do to become consciously unconcious, and for how long.  A commitment to consciousness means that if we check out, we also commit to come back into consciousness at some point.  This consciousness thing can be tricky...  but is vital to our health and wellbeing, as well as to our evolution.  Take some time to become consciously unconcious when you need to. 

Consciousness of today

Anyone listening to the tragedy that happened in Tuscon today hopefully found themselves conscious of just how much the human condition can go awry.  The gunsmen who targeted the Arizona congresswoman was not what I would call "conscious", meaning that he obviously was far off the mark from his soul and from the oneness that connects us all.  The 9-year old girl who was killed in the rampage was born on September 11, 2001.  Although that may seem ironic, it is no accident that this little girl's life started and ended on days of tragedy.  This girl's life has something incredibly important to teach all of us.  When we do not remain conscious in our own lives, we affect others'.  When we get of track, we take others down with us.  Has our country really become so "unconscious" that we don't care who we hurt just to say we are "right"?  Have we really gotten so oblivious to our integrity.  The daily news seems to show us just this.  Something needs to change.... and soon.

Bless the victims of that shooting as well as their family and friends.

Hello once again...

It's been a while since I've "blogged"-- mostly because I have been initiating myself into the social media world in other ways, which is quite the challenge. My work is all about consciousness and our soul's evolution. And in many ways, I've been resistant to social media being a part of that. I believe very strongly in one on one connection, so the distance that social media creates felt like an artificial form of connecting with other souls. However.... I'm not warming up to the idea that if I really want to spread the word about consciousness, the magical electronic web of the world can help to spread the word further and wider than I would within the walls of my office. So, here's to social media, and here's to my own evolution within the blogging world.... join me.....

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