So what is consciousness and what does that mean, consciousness is all there is? And how can this knowledge improve my health and my life? When asked, most of us simply think of being conscious as being awake and aware. We imagine the subconscious as a hidden driver behind the scenes and the unconscious as an impulse-driven mystery realm. As if somehow consciousness is an elusive state, not simply and naturally what is. In scientific communities, the word consciousness is the new buzzword, and science, or specifically physics, has long discovered a Unified field underlying all of creation, a singularity which expresses as both an absolute pure consciousness as well as all manifestation...absolutely everything we see and experience. Knowledge from our earliest civilizations is only now being understood from the perspective of modern science and both now share the same paradigm. Fundamentally consciousness is conscious of itself. It has a self-referral nature. There is at once the experience of a subject, object, and process of knowing at play in all things all the time. So how do we experience this? Well, we are never the same. Today you are not the same as you were yesterday. Perhaps you learned something, encountered someone or something that has opened your eyes to new possibilities, uplifted your spirit, given you new information, or renewed your hope. Or maybe you noticed something that has been there all along in a new way. Your pattern has been changed. Your vision has changed. We change, throughout the day, the season, with age, and this affects all aspects of our well-being.

We experience different states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, sleeping... but there is a fourth state called transcendental consciousness, which then leads to higher states of consciousness. This fourth state is the state often experienced when we feel in flow states, when things are just clicking into place and happening as if by magic. What if this state wasn’t just for a few great leaders, poets, athletes, artists, and mystics? What if this was the birthright of everyone, to exist in this state and even higher states of consciousness?

The psychologist and spiritual teacher, Dr. Wayne Dyer, is quoted as saying, “When you change the way the look at things, the things you look at change.”

What if a more fluid nature of our daily life was readily accessible by cultivating the ability to make different choices? To decide to know our inherent nature and to work with it with self-leadership. Ayurvedic practices and Natural Law principles reestablish our experience of life to allow the unformed, unconscious aspects of ourselves to integrate into natural forces of potential, such as greater resilience, compassion, untapped abilities, greater health and well-being, and authentic sincerity in our lives that feels truly uplifting and self-elevating. This is the experience of the natural self-referral quality of consciousness. We are essentially our own medicine. We are what we place our attention on and when we begin to do this differently, we change. It is said that we are only using a fraction of our total mental potential. Modern science and ancient tradition both agree we can learn to access and integrate so much more potential and experience a greater harmony even in the ever-changing landscape within and all around us as we are expressions of an infinite flow of resource.

Life is naturally full. The nature of life is infinite. Within every human being, there exists an unbounded ocean of abundance. There is a spaciousness inherent throughout everything, infinite gaps of potential, the spaciousness where life processes happen most effortlessly. In understanding that consciousness is all there is and that an infinite unboundedness is our true nature, we open ourselves to the possibility of spontaneously experiencing infinite creativity and infinite wealth that is already there to help us move more coherently with life and evolve what is trying to emerge through us: the next step we know we need to take that will show us a new way of being. What if it is not peace which upholds progress, but progress that upholds a more integrated, unified expression of harmony? A natural kind of progress that recognizes the divinity that threads through and supports all of life and that enhances gratitude and appreciation of all of life.

As we embrace this kind of inherent evolutionary progress, we create more peace for the whole. Einstein is quoted as saying that you cannot solve a problem at the same level of understanding or thinking equated with the problem. What if you could see solutions to every difficult problem by simply becoming aware of it in a more expansive way? And by doing so, make decisions that not only produce kind and positive effects in your own life but in all of life. We live on the basis of our individual consciousness, yet it is Universal consciousness that connects all aspects of life. Modern physics has formulated this understanding in terms of the “Unified Field of All the Laws of Nature”. And we are individuated expressions of this Field. When we lean into more spaciousness, we feel this support.

Just as we must integrate our sleeping, waking, and dreaming with our daily lives, we can adopt new habits that help us transcend separation consciousness and integrate higher consciousness with our natural instincts. This enhances functioning throughout the day, every day, in all activities. In understanding that consciousness is all there is and that an infinite unboundedness is our true nature, we can position ourselves for the possibility of spontaneously experiencing a limitless feeling of creativity and wealth that is already there. When we access more integrated states, we have a different alignment with life that feels spacious, clear, and unbounded. We sense the subtle rhythms ever at play and can make different choices. Meditation, prayer, diet, and lifestyle are fundamental components of a progressive life. There are ways in which we can cultivate a more expansive nature without isolating or separating ourselves. In my experience, we can accomplish this even if we have previously seen through the eyes of trauma.

Well-being is dynamic being and doing. A sincere relationship of natural reciprocal movement in life. In this field we define and align with the essentials of our lives with compassionate awareness and experience a sense of infinite possibilities. When we lean into all areas consciously and intentionally, we develop resilience and a new confidence arises which then leads to actions that support our well-being and the well-being of all.

We stop comparing and begin truly living.