Elevate Your Consciousness

Consciousness is your primary—and only—capital. Your consciousness—your sense of presence—defines what you are. Without consciousness, all the money in the world is meaningless (as there’s no one to spend it).

Psychiatrist and consciousness researcher David R. Hawkins, author of the bestseller Power vs. Force, explains that consciousness is the hidden determinant of all human behavior. Consciousness is stratified into levels like a step-down transformer where higher levels have more energy than lower levels. Every level of consciousness has an energy field aligned with specific qualities like dominant emotions, world views, views about God, attitudes, and belief systems.

These energy fields hold varying levels of power. Some energy fields are life affirming: courage, willingness, acceptance, reason, love and joy. Others energy fields are destructive: shame, grief, apathy, fear, anger and pride.

The single greatest thing you can do in your lifetime is to elevate your consciousness. Elevating your consciousness will intrinsically change how you perceive the world and positively-impact everyone around you (even if you don’t notice it).

How do you elevate your consciousness?

Live by basic spiritual dictums:

• Be kind to everything and everyone, including yourself
• Revere all life in all its forms
• Approach life with humility
• Devote time to something greater than yourself—your family, a loved one, humanity or divinity.

Hawkins provides a list of ten tried-and-true basic tools to help advance one’s consciousness in his book, Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. You can also review all ten spiritual tools here.

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