A lot goes on within our brains without our knowledge that it is happening. In fact, most of what goes on within our brains occurs without us being aware of it. Consider for a moment your breathing, or your heart rate. Neither of these essential rhythms are under conscious control but the brain plays a crucial role in regulating both of them.
However, the ability to make choices is a key characteristic of being human. By making choices, we claim autonomy and self-expression. In order to make choices we need awareness.
Awareness involves a state of being, a level of arousal and attention. It also requires something to be aware of.
To develop and grow far from our current state requires an awareness of being part of something greater than ourselves. It involves being aware of our connections. Connections to others, to the world, to the universal.
In the contemplation of Life we develop an awareness of our emergence temporarily from all that is. We become aware of our wave-like existence, appearing out of the surface and the depths of the great sea.
Having become aware of our existence as part of the universal and of how we emerge out of all that is, we then become aware of returning to where we came from.
We become aware of the great cycles of birth, growth and death. The cycles of expansion and contraction. The cycles of coming and going.
Finally, we develop an awareness of being within the flow and feeling the flow within, through, and around us all.
Heroes Not Zombies 
Leave a Reply