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Ten simple ways to improve our level of conscious awareness

 

VIRTUD DEFECTO
Truth Lie
Courage Cowardice
Compassion Cruelty
Clarity Confusion
Attention Dispersion
Knowledge Ignorance
Reason Absurdity
Inspiration Indifference
Energy Exhaustion
Will Apathy

Dictation

Accept your truth.

Have courage

If you face problems, prblems become oportunities

Compassion is the base for unconditional love

Have a clear idea of what you really really want . Focus

If your mind is disperse, it's not efective

Ask yourself questions

Use your logic to fight asumptions

Try to spend time with people that inspire you

Do exercise because exercise helps you to interact with nature

Intention, exprese your intentions every morning: "Today I'm going to sort up my pictures. or today I'm going to read,..."

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/08/10-ways-to-become-more-conscious/

1. Truth

Truth raises your consciousness.  Falsehood lowers it.

First, accept the truth.  Whatever you’re afraid to know lowers your consciousness.  Step on the scale to see how much you weigh.  Have a long talk with your spouse about the status of your relationship.  Take a deep look at your career.  In every case accept the outcome.  Don’t just acknowledge the current status and dismiss it.  Really accept it as the truth.  Think about what it means for this to be true.  Also accept your feelings about the truth, whether you like them or not.

Secondly, speak the truth.  If honesty is a challenge for you, it’s because you aren’t being honest enough with yourself.  Lies you tell others are shadowed by lies you tell yourself.  Take note of those areas where you feel incapable of genuine honesty, and dig deep enough to find out why.  You’ll find that you uncover a part of yourself you’ve been unwilling to accept.  You don’t lie about the parts of yourself you accept 100%.

The more you’re able to accept and speak the truth, the more conscious you become.  Raise your consciousness by uncovering and dumping all traces of falsehood from your life.  Allow this to be a gradual process.  As your consciousness increases, genuine honesty will come more easily to you.

Yes, there may be consequences when you switch from lies and half-truths to the full truth, but highly conscious people know that crossing that bridge is well worth the effect.  A short-term adjustment is nothing compared to the joys of living honestly and openly.  It’s so much easier and less stressful to be yourself and allow others to do the same.  Not everyone will appreciate the real you, especially if they’ve grown accustomed to a false version, but that won’t matter once you accept and appreciate yourself.

2. Courage

Courage raises your consciousness.  Cowardice lowers it.

Courage is the gatekeeper between unconscious growth and conscious growth.  As long as you remain on the unconscious side, life will keep throwing problems at you until you step up and take charge.  When you face your fear, the fear vanishes, and problems transform into opportunities.  But when you run from your problems, your fear only grows.

A powerful guiding principle to adopt is, “Whatever I fear, I must face.”  The more fears you face down, the more conscious you become.  As you master this lesson, eventually courage becomes less necessary.  Once you develop the courage to face any fear life throws at you, you stop attracting so many fear-based experiences into your life.  This is why courage is the dividing line between unconscious growth and conscious growth.  The mastery of courage gives you the power to decide how you’ll grow instead of being a victim of the whims of fate.

3. Compassion

Compassion raises your consciousness.  Cruelty lowers it.

A great way to become more conscious is to search for signs of unconscious cruelty and disconnection in your life.  This can be very difficult to do since it also requires courage.  We naturally resist facing our own cruelty, but it’s there just waiting to be uncovered.

Compassion is the root of unconditional love, a feeling of connectedness with everything that exists.  Do you feel connected to yourself?  To others?  To animals?  To all living things?  To everything that exists?  The more you develop this connection, the more conscious and aware you become.

4. Desire

Desire raises your consciousness.  Apathy lowers it.

When you get clear about what you want, such as by setting a goal, you raise your consciousness.  Clarity focuses your mind and gives you the power to think and act intelligently.  You can feel this effect whenever you think about something you definitely want.

On the other hand, when your desire is unclear, your consciousness is muddled.  Your thoughts lack focus and direction, and you merely spin your wheels.

Strive to become more clear about what you truly desire most, and your consciousness will expand.

5. Attention

Attention raises your consciousness.  Distraction lowers it.

Improving your ability to concentrate will make you more conscious.  Pick up a rock and give it your full and complete attention, and notice what happens.

But allow your mind to be riddled with distractions, and your consciousness will sink.  A distracted mind is a powerless mind.

Meditation is a great way to practice attention and concentration.  Sit quietly, breathe deeply, and focus your mind as you do your best to tune out distracting thoughts.  This is simple to learn, but it can take a lifetime to master.

6. Knowledge

Knowledge raises your consciousness.  Ignorance lowers it.

First and foremost, know thyself.  Think deeply about your life, and keep a journal to record your thoughts.  Ask questions to which you don’t know the answer, and then search for those answers.

Look around you as well, and soak up knowledge like a sponge.  Interact with your environment with a sense of curiosity and wonder.  Study it.  Learn from it.  Experiment with it.

Strive to understand reality, including your role in it, as accurately as possible.  The more accurate your beliefs about reality are, the more conscious you become.

7. Reason

Reason raises your consciousness.  Irrationality lowers it.

Logic is a powerful tool of consciousness when used correctly.  It lends structure and substance to thought.

However, the great challenge of logic is the avoidance of false assumptions.  A single false assumption can throw off a lifetime of otherwise logical conclusions.  So challenge all of your beliefs, and never have too much certainty about those that rest on clouds.

8. Conscious people

Conscious people raise your consciousness.  Unconscious people lower it.

Seek out others you perceive to be at a higher level of consciousness than you are.  Talk to them, ask questions, and enjoy their presence.  Allow their ideas and awareness to infect you, and you’ll find yourself expanding in all directions.  You’ll become more honest, more courageous, more compassionate, and so on.

But spend time with people at a lower level of consciousness, and you’ll gradually sink to their level.  Their thoughts will infect you as well, causing you to become more dishonest, more fearful, more apathetic, etc.

Strive to find a balance between spending time with those who raise your consciousness vs. spending time with those you can help.  Learn from those who are a little more conscious, and help those who are a little less conscious than you.  In this manner you serve the highest good of all, expanding consciousness everywhere.

9. Energy

Energy raises your consciousness.  Disease lowers it.

Take care of your physical body, for it is your primary means of interacting with the world.  Energy gives you an ongoing flow of vital life experiences.  But without energy you starve your consciousness.

Eat with an awareness of what you’re consuming.  Exercise with an awareness of how you’re affecting your body and mind.  Before putting anything in your body, consider its effect on your energy, not just in the short term but in the long term as well.  Always ask yourself, “Will this produce energy or disease?”

10. Intention

The intention to raise your consciousness raises it.  The intention to lower your consciousness lowers it.

Consciousness has the capacity to self-expand or self-contract, just as you have the capacity to grow or to commit suicide.  In any given moment, you have the freedom of choice.

By genuinely voicing the intention (or by offering the prayer), “I intend to become more conscious and aware,” you will initiate the expansion of your consciousness.  Holding the intention to improve in any of the previous nine areas will yield a similar effect.

Alternatively, you are perfectly free to lower your consciousness at any time.  While it’s unlikely you would choose to do so directly, you can achieve the same effect indirectly by lowering your performance in any of the previous nine areas.  By choosing to lie, to succumb to fear, to commit acts of cruelty, to remain ignorant, and so on, you put out the intention to lower your consciousness.  And in so doing, you initiate a process that will attract more falsehood, fear, cruelty, ignorance, etc. into your life.

Every thought you hold serves to either expand or contract your consciousness.  There is no neutral.  So choose wisely.

 

Conditional

How can I get improve truth? (we're going to answer the question with conditional)

0-Conditional

You can improve truth if you fight lie

1-Conditional

You wil improve truth if you avoid lie

Practice that question and answer with every word in the first table.

 

Imagine...      ...Welcome back

... now you're in the country lying  on the grass. It's a warm sunny day and the grass is green. You're lying under a tree. Lookup and tell me what you see.

... in the distance you can hear a bell ringing. What else can you hear?

...there's a door behind you. You're walking towards the door and opening it. What are you doing now?

... listen. Someone is trying to communicate with you. Who is it? What are they saying?

Why are you here?

What do you want?

Can I help you?

 

Massage

http://www.wikihow.com/Do-an-Indian-Head-Massage

Barbilla=chin


Part 1 of 3: Preparations and Starting Off

  1. 1

    Make preparations. Find a quiet place away from any distractions. Make sure the room is a comfortable temperature.

    • Put on some soft music

 

Part 2 of 3: Massaging the Neck

  1. 1

    Work up to the base of the skull. Continue with the circles up the back of the neck until you reach the hair line. Lower your hands back down and repeat two more times.

     
  2. 2

    Massage the neck. Step to one side of your volunteer, and place one hand at the base of the recipient's neck, and your front hand gently on their forehead to keep their head from falling forward. With the rear hand, open your thumb and glide your hand up the back of the neck. Don't put pressure directly on the vertebrae.

    • Once you reach the hair line, remain there for a moment with light pressure on the back of the head. Lower your rear hand and repeat from the base of the neck. You can even add some circling to the upward stroke if there seems to be a lot of tension present. Repeat this about five times. When your rear hand reaches the hairline for the last time, let it remain there.
     
  3. 3

    Slowly allow the head to tilt forward without strain or effort. Keep your hand at the recipient's hairline.

     
  4. 4

    Move the head back. Gently lift the head back to vertical and continue backwards, again without forcing, simply allowing the head to move within its own range of motion.

    • Repeat this 3 times, forward and backward.
     
 

 

 

Part 3 of 3: Massaging the Head

  1. 1

    Massage the head. Step back behind the recipient and loosen his or her hair if it is restrained. Bring your hands, with fingers spread, to the sides of the head, fingers pointing up. Use a light pressure and slowly move the hands up with a shampooing-like motion, trying to keep the heel of the hands in contact with the scalp as well as the fingers.

    • Once you reach the top of the head, allow the fingers to rise off while maintaining a gentle traction from the heels of the hands. Now lower your hands and move them around to a different area of the head. Repeat four or five times, covering the entire scalp.
     
  2. 2

    Rub the scalp. Bring one hand to the volunteer's forehead for stability as you place the heel of the other hand in contact with back of the head. Begin rubbing the scalp by moving your rear hand vigorously back and forth. Continue rubbing as much of the scalp as you can reach, and then switch hands and repeat on the other side.

     
  3. 3

    Briskly rub the scalp all over with just the fingertips of both hands. Continue this for about a minute.

     
  4. 4

    Stroke your fingers through your recipient's hair from the top of the forehead back. Let the final strokes draw their head back slightly and then lay the fingers over the forehead and draw the fingers down and along the brow line to each temple, making small circles over the temples. Repeat this process three times.

     
  5. 5

    Finish up. With smooth strokes beginning at the forehead, slowly work your way to the back of the head. Do this for about a minute, allowing the pressure to become lighter towards the end, until finally your hands float off the head.

 

Listening

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What question does Anderson ask himself in the realm of religion?

What question does he ask himself that involves predestination?

Who did think as a child would give him the answer at that question?

How Anderson feel about the idea that ther are questions we can't answer?

How do you ask he following question in English?

 

Homework Speak out page 135 and page 139

 

 

Song The ode to the brain (exercise)

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Fill the cells with these words:

play    know   thought    reflects    understand    live    feels    think    take-up    contemplate    see(2)    explodes(2)

[Robert Winston]
It's amazing to consider that I'm holding in my hands
The place where someone once felt,_________, and loved
For centuries, scientists have been battling to __________
What this unappealing object is all about

[Vilayanur Ramachandran]
Here is this mass of jelly
You can hold in the palm of your hands
And it can ______________ the vastness of interstellar space

[Carl Sagan]
The brain has evolved from the inside out
It's structure ______________ all the stages through which it has passed

[Jill Bolte Taylor]
Information in the form of energy 
Streams in simultaneously
Through all of our sensory systems

And then it ______________ into this enormous collage
Of what this present moment looks like
What it feels like
And what it sounds like

And then it ______________ into this enormous collage
And in this moment we are perfect
We are whole and we are beautiful

[Robert Winston]
It appears rather gruesome
Wrinkled like a walnut, and with the consistency of mushroom

[Carl Sagan]
What we ______________ is encoded in cells called neurons
And there are something like a hundred trillion neural connections
This intricate and marvelous network of neurons has been called
An enchanted loom

The neurons store sounds too, and snatches of music
Whole orchestras ______________ inside our heads

20 million volumes worth of information
Is inside the heads of every one of us
The brain is a very big place
In a very small space

No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain
We can change ourselves
______________ of the possibilities

[Bill Nye]
Think of your brain as a newspaper
Think of all the information it can store
But it doesn't ______________ too much room
Because it's folded

[Oliver sacks]
We ______________ with the eyes
But we ______________ with the brain as well
And seeing with the brain
Is often called imagination

[Various]

[Robert Winston]
It is the most mysterious part of the human body
And yet it dominates the way we live our adult lives
It is the brain