3 - The Price of an Open Mind.

Our entire life revolves around this basic fundamental magnificent aspect of Conscious Awareness, but we rarely consciously intentionally use it and take advantage of it to better our lives. Not only is it the giver of life itself to us, it can give us more life to our life to enjoy. It can bring so much more into our lives. If we use it consciously, it can add boundless fulfillment of joy and happiness within our lives.
 

There are many different aspects of life that we can increase our awareness of. In fact, there are endless possibilities because our awareness is unlimited if we allow it to be. We can become more aware of the present moment and of our own awareness and of awareness itself. We can become more aware of our environment and the world we live in. We can become more aware of people and their psychology as well as our own. All increased awareness leads to greater understanding of how and what things actually are. This understanding is particularly beneficial when it is the understanding that comes from awareness of our mind. When we become aware of ourselves, we become aware of the blocks that we have placed on our awareness and how that has limited our understanding and has limited us. By gaining further understanding through increased awareness we learn to remove those blocks which in turn leads to further increased awareness. This all leads to a more fulfilling happy enjoyable life.

If you want to grow your awareness and become more aware and receive all the benefits from ever increasing awareness, there happens to be a big price to pay. You will have to be open-minded. That means you have to give up your closed mind. You will have to give up the concept of being right or your perceived self-righteousness. You will have to let go of your certainty. If you are firm in your beliefs and perspectives as being right, you won't be open to increasing your awareness of what actually is. Increasing awareness requires you to have an open flexible mind because with increased awareness you are bound to become aware of information, beliefs, attitudes, and perspectives of yours that are incorrect, but that is exactly what makes increased awareness so beneficial. You are going to find out that so many of the beliefs that you sincerely believed were correct simply aren't and that will help you tremendously in your life. Your limited awareness and perspective has led to limited conclusions and many of those conclusions led to wrong beliefs. One of those extremely limited conclusions we have come to is that we know what we only believe.

We have 10's of thousand of minor and major beliefs. Beliefs are any idea or thought that we believe we know that we don't or can't actually know. Our whole inner reality is structured around our beliefs. Many of these beliefs are so minor that we take them for granted and we consider them knowledge up until they cause us to make a mistake and we become aware of them. If you truly analyze what you actually know that can be proven and what are actually beliefs, you're going to find how many beliefs you actually have. Just that is a major increase in awareness. Every judgment, opinion, perspective, decision or idea that has other possibilities is a belief. Then by questioning the certainty of those beliefs can lead to even more increased awareness. You'll see that there is so much that you think you know but don't. You just believe you do. So many of these beliefs are the cause of our problems or keep us from finding the solutions to our challenges and situations in life that we are confronted with..

If you honestly scrutinize and analyze everything you think you know, you're going to find out how incredibly biased and skewed that so called knowledge is. You'll become aware of how so many of your beliefs have blocked you off from other correct or more significant information that contradicts so many of your beliefs. You'll see that you've been governing your life by very limited information that led to incorrect conclusions that you have turned into beliefs. You'll also learn a lot about your identity and how it identifies with beliefs and strives to always be right about beliefs which has also blocked you from gathering more information and increasing your awareness of the actual truth about certain things in your life.

We all have so much to learn and we won't learn something that we were incorrect about if we believe we already know. Increasing our awareness of ourselves, others and the world we live in requires us to be willing to let go of our beliefs so they can be replaced by what actually is and to do that we need to have less certainty in beliefs. Certainty is the killer of increasing awareness. It robs us from the ability to acquire more correct information that contradicts our beliefs. It keeps us in a state of ignorance and unwillingness to consider other possibilities. Certainty takes away our ability to learn.

Certainty can keep us from acquiring added information even if we are correct. We might be correct about something but are missing a lot more information about it that would change our understanding of it. Certainty makes us think we know all we need to know. Our certainty is our sense of self-righteousness that we all have. Drop the certainty of beliefs and also even of your factual knowledge and you open your mind to the endless possibilities that increased awareness can lead to. Those possibilities can and will change your life for the better if you are open to them. The price for endless possibilities is your closed mind.
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