Consciousness Is the Key to Longevity
If you wish to live longer, be conscious of everything in your life.
What Is Consciousness?
Consciousness is everything; if you are not conscious, you are not
living your life, if not already dead.
What is consciousness? Being conscious is a "special
quality of the mind" that permits us to know both that we exist and
that the things around us exist too. Surprisingly, some of us may not have this
consciousness.
Life is an inner journey that requires consciousness of
the body and the mind, together with that of the soul, to continue to make its
progress in the right direction in order to reach its final destination.
Unfortunately, since the beginning of time, many people have traveled the same
journey of life but without reaching their destinations because they simply
lack their consciousness of the body, and the mind—not to mention that of the
soul—to guide them along that journey.
Consciousness comes from the mind, which is created by
the brain. Hippocrates (460 - 370 BC), the father of modern medicine,
was one of the first scientists to observe and notice that people with brain
damage tended to lose their mental abilities. He realized that the mind is
created by the brain, and the mind crumbles piece by piece as the brain dies.
The human brain creates the consciousness of the mind,
giving humans pleasures and displeasures, happiness and unhappiness, as well as
many other positive and negative emotions and thoughts. They become our
experiences which are stored in our minds, and these experiences also become
our memories that generate our subsequent thoughts—they are the byproducts with
which we weave the realities in our lives. Therefore, consciousness is the
capability of the mind to see them as they are. Without consciousness, which is
knowing what is happening in the mind, you just obediently follow what your
mind tells you. That is to say, you have become a slave to your thinking, instead
of being the master of your own thoughts.
Consciousness is probing deep into the conscious mind:
asking meaningful and relevant questions, and then seeking self-enlightening
answers to all the questions asked. After all, throughout one’s life journey,
one has to ask many different questions at different stages, and seeking
different answers from the questions asked. In order to reach the destination
of one’s life journey. consciousness of the mind is a necessity, and not an
option.
Stephen Lau
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Stephen Lau
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