Looking for a Conscious Life
What is consciousness? Awareness? Intention? Focus? The highest instrument that an ordinary human being is aware of and can exercise some control on, is the mind. By mind we know it as the part in us that thinks, ponders, broods, reminisces, tries to recollect, plans through a series of thoughts and decides to act; also one who exercises the will to act and prods a part of the body to act; it is also the one that becomes sad when the body experiences pain or illness; it is the one that is tormented when we face deceit or hurt in a relationship and it is also the one that gathers the being after a heartbreak and urges him to move on. But sometimes no word of the mind lands on the emotional being, the vital has taken over by running the painful memories in repeat mode and yet there is someone who suffers silently, allowing the vital energies to dry out- it is not the mind that tries to interrupt a few times to take charge, but is unable to get through. Again, when we freeze in fear and...