Lower consciousness occupies most of our existence. Your daily living revolves around seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling and thinking. Because of its survival instinct, the mind evaluates or judges everything that comes through the 5 senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.

For example: How did you decide on your favorite movie, music, food or friend? You decide by judging it. After you watch a particular movie, your mind makes a judgment, and it generates an emotional response to the movie: “I like it”, which produces a positive feeling or “I don’t like it”, which produces a negative feeling.

The mind judges all objects, situation or people that it comes in contact. As the results of judging, you get a huge database of “likes” and “dislikes” in your mind. These preferences determine how you behave and make your daily decision. They form your habits in life.

More importantly, lower consciousness also generates stress. When it doesn’t like something, the mind generates negative emotions such as anxiety, sorrow, depression, anger, hatred, pain, worry or fear.

HOW CAN WE LIBERATE OURSELVES FROM THESE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS?
We need to train the mind so we can go from lower to higher consciousness. These negative feelings do not exist in higher conscious state because it doesn’t judge. Here the mind is completely content. It’s contentment with insight and wisdom. You experience immense happiness beyond description. True happiness is independent and unconditional. When you discover this, you experience your TRUE SELF, and your motivation comes from kindness and compassion.

Lower consciousness or the ego is our FALSE SELF. Its motivation comes from selfishness which is based on fear (survival instinct of fight or flight). It can only experience conditional happiness.

For example: When people are asked the question “Are you happy?” and they answer “yes.” They actually mean conditional happiness. They are happy as long as they have their health, job, money, etc. As long as these conditions are favorable, they’re happy. But as soon as these conditions change in the opposite direction such as losing their health, job, or money; they now feel miserable.

So, the solution to the problem of stress (negative emotions) is to move from lower to higher consciousness.

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