Awareness is not what you think

You may have the impression awareness grows over a period of perceived time.  To sense awareness is a changeless reality is to know change is an illusion created by ego mind that itself focuses on the external world.  Notice how ego grounds you in certain belief systems where it is controls you with fear. If consciousness only grows more subtle and refined, how does this effect what you feel and accept?

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[Walking in Stillness]

On One Level, Awareness can be described as constant and eternal. It is always Here.

In this dimensional experience from the lens of the mind, we are aware of what we are aware of by design through the filters and the ego that defines the parameters of what we call our attention to. Awareness is what we are able to feel fully and unconditionally from a specific point of view.

The feelings that we let into us deeply, is what we accept, which can be equated to what we are currently conscious of. The unconscious can then be described as rejected sensations which later can translate then into bubbling up emotional behavior originating from the fear one has for the unknown or un-remembered. Amnesia sets in and one becomes un-familiar with their environment and their familial relations to all things. However, through our explorations and courage, one pieces together the unknown and the forgotten to begin seeing and sensing the relativity, and one's relations to all that one encounters.

[Liara Covert]

Bernie, everyone shares what he receives yet, not everyone consciously chooses what it will be that he receives. One grows aware of his choice by realizing what he gives and what is given to him. That is, based on how you behave and treat yourself and others, you experience mirror treatment. When one rejects and judges others, this reminds one he does not accept himself fully.

[tumel]

I just feel sometimes that I don't want to be conscious of what I let in or not let in. In being conscious of what I let in or not let in feels like it goes back to judging somehow, and I know it might be discernment, but even discernment feels a touch like this too.

It is like feeling or trusting that our unconsiousness knows more than our consciousness, and trusting this, so it feels that the awareness that is always there is really our unconsciousness.

[Liara Covert]

tumel, one perspective is that choosing to be human is a choice to be selectively unconscious.

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. ego certainly can restrain one - we need to let go and allow life to lead, while being practical within our own present requirements ... then awareness can grow too ... Thank you - Hilary

[Liara Covert]

Hilary, ego is a timeless teacher. To grow aware of how it works enables you to follow nature's way.