Conscious Space

Not justifying everything you do creates the space needed to go beyond the unconscious view that’s in place. This allows enough consciousness to change the way things are looked at…

When it’s said one is conscious it can be described as being aware of all the different mental factors that arise in each moment; this allows knowing why you see things as you do. It doesn’t prevent what arises or what happens, but it can lessen the reactions and some of the consequences associated with an unconscious view; but only if there’s awareness and there’s no attachment. No view inherently causes problems for anyone, alcohol never poured itself down someone’s throat. To reach for it it has to be viewed as beneficial. Same for drugs or gambling, neither causes anyone to abuse them, it’s the individual alone who views them as beneficial. Granted most of this self harming reaching is done unconsciously, but I do what I do today to try and shed light on this. I know a thing or two about this unconscious view because it was mine for forty nine years.

So many things unconsciously controlled me and as long as I was unaware of this, they view continued its onslaught of control. How this unconscious view gets deeply ingrained is by justifying everything you do. From pointing out the faults of others, to being nasty to people, and so many other justified behaviors, all they do is keep the unconscious view in place. Conscious that this is being done is the first step in breaking the chains of unconsciousness view. Stop looking out there for answers, stop blaming and talking about others, in other words stop justifying everything you do and this just may create the space needed to allow you to go beyond the way you look at things. After all, if the way you unconsciously view things doesn’t change, the onslaught of being controlled by an unconscious view will remain…