The Top 10 Ways to Raise Your Consciousnes

Life can be a GIFT or a NIGHTMARE, depending on where you
choose to operate from consciously. Practiced regularly, the
following 10 tips will assist you in shining your beautiful
unique light so brightly that your resulting raised
consciousness will be a GIFT to yourself, humanity, and the
Cosmos.

1. Forgive yourself and others.

Life is too short to hold on to regrets, grudges,
miscommunications, or disappointments. Free yourself by
forgiving and letting go of any negative energy you're
holding on to about yourself and/or others. There are many
ways to do this. One way is to write down anything you're
ready to let go of and ceremonially tear it into small
pieces and throw it away as you forgive. You may even choose
to verbally forgive anyone you've been resenting. Either
way, the process of forgiving yourself and others will
result in your feeling light and free, and consequently
raise your vibration.

2. Practice gratitude and appreciation.

Whatever you focus on grows. So, when you focus on every
thing in your life you have to feel grateful for and all the
wonderful people you appreciate, the universe hands you more
to feel grateful about. It's a wonderfully reciprocal
consciousness raising process.

3. Live each day as though it were your last.

If today was your last known day in this lifetime, with what
type of people would you surround yourself? What would you
say to the people you care about? What personal gifts would
you make sure you imparted to humanity and the earth? Live
each day as if it was your last, and you will be living in a
state of light, love and unconditional contribution.

4. Meditate/Pray.

You open up a direct link between yourself and the spiritual
realm when you meditate and/or pray. Meditation and prayer
can be used to bring you closer to your creator energy,
raise your vibration, bring you peace, clarity, joy, and
connection, as well assist you in experiencing a perfectly
balanced state between your mental, physical, emotional, and
spiritual bodies.

5. Suspend judgment.

This world is laden with judgment, irresponsibility, and
finger pointing. One judges another to feel less guilty
about one's own misgivings. Judgment energy is dense, dark,
and heavy. On the other hand, unconditional acceptance is
light, free, and accepting. Let go of judging and
criticizing yourself and others. Everyone is on a different
path, and some appear to be further ahead on their path than
others. Neither path is better nor worse than another. Raise
your consciousness to one of acceptance.

6. View every experience as a GIFT.

If you look back at occurrences in your life, you can easily
see how even the worst situations you experienced in your
life ended up teaching you invaluable lessons and therefore
ended up putting you in the perfect place for your
continuing development. When you view every experience, the
good, the bad, and the ugly as a GIFT, life flows more like
a gentle, inspiring breeze.

7. Stay consciously aware of all of your thoughts and
feelings.

Until you raise the consciousness of the entire human race,
it is extremely easy to fall back in to all pervasive
negative patterns of complaining and feeling like a victim
of society and a victim of your life. To stay out of these
patterns, check in with yourself your present thoughts and
feelings several times a day. When you catch yourself in the
Negative zone, don't feel badly about it and beat yourself
up. Simply choose to switch your consciousness to one of
gratitude and positive thinking. Remain conscious.

8. Treat your physical body as your temple.

Your body is the only vehicle you've been given for this
ride called "LIFE." The better you care for your body by
eating a healthy, balanced diet, and by implementing a
regular exercise routine, and by giving your body the rest
it requires, the more you will experience increased energy,
vitality, joy, and freedom. Honor, love, appreciate and take
extra good care of your body, and you will be raising your
energy and your consciousness.

9. View the world through the eyes of a child.

Observe a baby or a young child. It won't take you long to
notice that young children are constantly totally enthralled
by the process of observing and experiencing the wonder and
beauty in every single thing, color, texture, and person
they meet. They can't get enough! Look at every tree,
sunset, cloud, and human being as a child would and you'll
be in a constant state of wonder, joy, surprise, acceptance,
and enlightenment.

10. Give LOVE, LOVE, LOVE from your heart.

It's all about love. Do you remember the feeling of being in
love for the first time? Why was it so wonderful? That's
because love is the highest vibration. Allow yourself to
receive love unconditionally from others. Give love from
your heart unconditionally to yourself and others, and you
will experience the highest state of consciousness possible.


by Ronya Banks, Degrees
in both Psychology and Computer Programming, as well as
certification in extensive leadership trainings, Life coach,
trainer, business owner, entrepreneur, mother, writer, and
mentor, who can be reached at rbanks@..., or
visited on the web.

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Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
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