A Powerful Life-Altering Realization Any Human Can Have

How often are we stretching our consciousness beyond our everyday routine?

Set Your Pulse: Take a breath. Release the tension in your body. Place attention on your physical heart. Breathe slowly into the area for 60 seconds, focusing on feeling a sense of ease. Click here to learn why we suggest this.

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It’s one thing to know something, and it’s another to truly practice it. In that spirit, profound realizations about the nature of our reality can be practiced. Better said, they can be embodied.

But how often do we look to our body to hear or feel how it responds to profundity?

In our modern reality, one that has strayed far from our nature, we wake up, get ready, eat breakfast and go to work or school.

During our travels, we might get annoyed at the traffic and dread that we are all headed in the same direction at the same time.

We get to work and partake in whatever we need to in order to achieve the goals set out for the day. We often immerse ourselves in our actions without ever realizing the beauty that is happening around us at all times.

We might not deeply pay attention to what we do or how it feels for our bodies to move throughout the day. Once our day is complete we head home, hopefully spend some time with family and then repeat the process the next day.

I don’t believe life is quite this simple, but many of us experience it this way because of how we focus our attention. (Part of the described mundanity is also a result of societal design, which I believe is severely flawed, but that’s for a different discussion.)

Our daily attention is often highly cognitive, and can often be heavily focused on the perceived seriousness of life. Everything can become VERY serious. The news, money, work, politics, our belief of where the world is heading, relationships, shopping lists, housework, planning, goal setting etc.

In this built up seriousness, we might allow small things to trigger us easily, proceed to blow them out of proportion and brood on them for hours or even days.

When things can become this serious it doesn’t feel so good. We also lose sight of viable solutions and creativity within this state of mind and being, which halts our individual and societal progress.

To stretch our consciousness a bit, we don’t even have to look at things on a “spiritual” level to realize that we are just a speck in the entirety of our universe of all that is.

This is why “The Pale Blue Dot” is such a significant image.

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometres.

It reminds us not to take life too seriously.

Think of the pain, destruction, grudges and heartache that come from small actions due to how we make them serious. Don’t get me wrong, there can be growth in experiencing these things, but is there a different state of consciousness or awareness we can reach to see our daily “troubles” in a different light? To see our lives in a different light?

Take a moment and close your eyes. Take a deep breath in, and a deep breath out. Feel your body. Can you release tension? Can you sense a deeper nature within you? Can you feel and see beyond the seriousness of our minds? This image can inspire us to come back to these questions.

I’ve taken my somatic clients to a place of peace and calm in their bodies, even when they enter the session from a place of chaos. Without avoiding the feeling of our chaos and bypassing it, we can pendulate from that chaos to the peace (or good feelings) that are always with us but are beyond our current focus.

It’s like switching your consciousness and awareness from only the bad or tense to acknowledging the spectrum within your body. Integrating the whole.

This has a healing effect.

How often do you notice and truly feel the peace and potential in your body amongst other feelings? Bringing the totality of ourselves - mind, spirit, and body - into our awareness and consciousness is to practice and integrate the totality of our experience.

It creates greater clarity, more freedom, and a level of consciousness that can birth a new world.

It sounds cheesy, but world peace is ultimately up to us, not anyone else or any external factor. Change starts within.