This Planet is in serious need  for some serious awareness. If awareness and understanding go hand in hand, than the argument would be; why don’t we act on it?

Let’s look at something as simple as smoking. I guess we are all aware, that smoking is not good for our health, and if we understand that, obviously everyone who is still smoking would stop. I guess the results of smoking are not drastic enough, which may be the reason people still smoking.

Let’s consider  something more drastic, like hitting yourself with a hammer over the head.
Now, that hurts, that is some serious awareness and very quick understanding, I bet you would stop hitting yourself over the head pretty immediate, would you?
Apparently not; all over this planet people hit themselves or others over the head. One would think that hitting someone else may be less painful, but I don’t think so…
how can you be happy seeing all these people injured with serious bleeding sculls?

Why is it than, that we are still hitting us with a hammer over the head, and that on a daily basis. Where is the awareness, understanding, logic or compassion to stop this?

I think it is, in part, the lack of awareness we have towards other people. As long as anyone still things of themselves as right, we never will stop this hitting over the head business. With other words, we may be aware of the pain but not of what the pain is caused by.

Remember, what we said in the last article …. “whatever we can’t see, hear, feel or understand, we are not aware of and can’t change! But there is another one; whatever we don’t want to see, we can’t change either! Often we don’t see something, because our mind is programmed in a different way and therefore we have to force ourselves to take a second look. Programmed is just a nice word for being brainwashed…

Where do our preconceived ideas come from? ( our brainwashing or programme ?)

From the society we grew up in, from our parents, family, friends, teachers, TV, newspaper, etc..  Make sure, when you look at anything new or old, that you aware, get all the details, all the facts, and asked yourself questions. Where is that knowledge coming from, why do I believe it to be true; it’s time to question your belief system.

Switching to awareness, learning to be open minded, is the first step out of a box.

You need courage to be aware, to have a look at yourself. Are you ready now to have a look at yourself, to become aware?

1. Start by changing perspective. Get out of yourself. Look into your life like another person may look at you. How does your partner see you? Your teacher? Your boss? Your worst enemy, (if you have one), or somebody who never agrees with you, etc-?
   Step out of yourself ….

2. Be aware of the DISTINCTION between what you think you know and the facts. Why do two people come to different conclusions over the same subject?
   Does one of them has to be wrong? Why?
   Do you react to facts, or opinion and assumptions of what you think is going on in the world? Stick to the facts!!

3. mebeliAsk yourself questions to force awareness.
   You may even have to ask yourself the fundamental question of “DO I REALLY WANT TO CHANGE?”
   There are enough people who say “I can’t change what I am!’
   This is a BELIEF SYSTEM and whoever believes that, is right. They can’t change, because they refuse to have the awareness that they can change, they are trapped in their box.
    

4. Ask more questions, especially about your standards, values, belief systems, goals and desires. Ask yourself, and listen where the answers are coming from!
   Are those answers yours, or still your parents, teachers, media, society, past believes, etc?

5. Get more and more specific with your questions,  confront yourself.
   We do think in “generalisations“, thoughts and ideas such as “all politicians are bad.”
   Confront these generalisations with questions like;
   Absolutely all? Who specifically? How do I know? Is that a fact? etc.

6. Turning generalisations into specifics expands your awareness.
   You will find out  more about yourself and the world around you.

7. And finally, be aware that Awareness can change from day to day.
   The world is the fact, we just see it with a limited view, which will never be the same as the view of the person next to you.

… cheers, the Editor