Consciousness

I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and man.

Acts 24:16

Consciousness is the ultimate state of living in the present moment and the present moment is all we actually have.

Consciousness is so often taken for granted simply because it is the opposite of unconsciousness and we live with the common belief that being in a state of unconsciousness is either being asleep or in a coma. Unknown to most people, sleeping or in a coma are not the only two ways that one can be unconscious. The fact is, there is a third stealth state of unconsciousness that infects every one most of the time.

This life consuming form of unconsciousness is called DISTRACTION.

Since the beginning of time, we have never experienced the level of distraction that is devouring the lives of individuals as it is today. In fact, current studies show that Unconscious Distraction (UD) consumes the average person’s mind 97% of the time. This reflects the fact that we are purposely conscious only 3% of the time.

I know this seems hard to believe, I couldn’t believe it myself until I began investigating, studying and observing my own behavior as well as the behavior of others. For example, overwhelming personal schedules, cell phone addiction, social media obsession and work requirements that never end with text messaging and emails 24/7/365 are skyrocketing the entire population’s mental, emotional and physical health into extreme degrees of chaos, conflict, drama and physical sickness.

This obsessive type of behavior has taken multi-tasking to absurd levels of impossibility which forces the brain into a level of continuous unconsciousness with the inundation of excessive and never-ending information.

The fact is, you can only think of one thing at a time regardless of how much information or how many tasks you are trying to comprehend and process.

Today’s information overload is unknowingly short-circuiting our mental processes which results in the mental and physical destruction of our minds and bodies and ultimately destroying God’s greatest gift called life.

Sadly, this does not end with our demise. As we voluntarily walk down this daily road of destruction, we are also leading and teaching our children and grandchildren to destroy their own lives.

Every day we are leading others, but we have no idea how to lead ourselves.

As is the truth, consciousness is singular and as is the lie, unconsciousness is plural.

Most people have no idea that they are living in a mentally unconscious state while going about their daily activities with seemingly “no problems at all”.

Our brain’s purpose and foremost objective is to survive, and to survive in the most efficient manner possible. This efficiency feature of our brain enables every mental or physical task performed repetitiously to be converted into an autonomic function known as a “HABIT”.

Your brain desires habits! It wants every single thing you do on a consistent basis to be a habit so that it has to work less on your monotonous life so that it can explore and take on more complex and complicated functions.

Simply put, our formed habits are controlling every aspect of our lives and these habits continue to be expanded and reinforced by our daily repetitive and unconscious behavior.

Question: What are 5 unconscious activities that you participate in every day?