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Faith, Mindfulness, and Reason
Though separate tenets — faith, mindfulness, and reason go hand in hand in hand to empower you.
I believe that conscious reality creation is how life unfolds. Along this line, though, the subconscious mind — if not supplanted by the conscious mind — does the driving and reality creation otherwise.
But I don’t want to just address how applying consciousness to create reality empowers you to let you build life as you’d desire it to be — but more importantly, how it empowers you every day.
When you are not practicing being conscious and aware, here and now, your subconscious is driving the bus. That sometimes means you will be driven off cliffs you’d otherwise steer clear of.
You have more power to control your destiny — or in the everyday, your life experience — than you probably realize. But because we live in a fear-based world with too many messages of lack, scarcity, insufficiency, and excuses to fear the “other” — it can overwhelm reason and cause people to abandon their conscious awareness for the subconscious.
That’s how seemingly normal, reasonable people do ludicrous things and follow the whims of terrible people. It’s how people accept Stockholm Syndrome and keep supporting politicians and business leaders who are…