How are you? Do you talk about non-dualism too? 😭 (I don't know if this is related to non-dualism, to be honest 😭) I once saw a post from a blogger who has since deactivated her account (😭) that said, "Simply capture the moment when you realize that you are the one who is conscious," and also, "Simply realize that you are conscious and sit in that sensation." But I don't really understand the part about how you realize you are conscious. Do you realize it when you meditate or something like that? I need an explanation and an example because I know it might be something easy, but I'm just learning, and I asked once, but they spoke with metaphors and somewhat difficult words, and I honestly didn't understand, and I was embarrassed to keep asking jaja😭
My questions are:
1- What does it mean to be conscious? (Is it noticing something? 🤔)
2- What does it mean to realize you're conscious?
3- How do you do it? 😭
4- Can you give me an example? (A normal one, please 😭)
Yooo so yess i am into non dualism and stuff and girll i get you because when i first got into this, it really left my brain sooo sooo fried istg . And i already apologize for post being a lil longer. So will try to give you your answers so that you get them easily;
Chapter One : Awareness V/S Consciousness
Look to "be" consciousness is not something that you realize when you are in a deep aah meditation and you are floating or sum. It's just simply being right there.
Okay lemme explain, you are breathing right now right? You realised it rn that you are breathing, but you were already breathing before and now you are * aware* of it. Similarly when you came across me, you became *aware* that okay this person exists somewhere in the world. To you before coming across me i was nothing , but now that you came across me, you are *aware* that i exist.
Becoming aware of something ≠ you weren't conscious before.
We are conscious all the time.
Imagine consciousness is a room with the lights on.
Awareness is where you're directing the flashlight inside that room.
The room can be lit (consciousness) even when the flashlight isn't pointed at your breathing, thoughts, sounds, or anything specific.
I used to confuse between awareness and consciousness , to be "consious" is not really a thing, to be aware is a thing.
And man you can be aware any time, look around and see a random object, acknowledge it, for example i see outside my window and i look at a leaf, the leaf was always there , now i saw it, i am aware of it.
Chapter 2 : Realizing that you are consious
Like i said, we are always conscious , and the realisation of being conscious is simply awareness . You are right here right now, you can feel yourself breathing, you can feel the touch of something near you, you can hear a distant noise, maybe you can taste what you last ate and you are reading this right now.
All of this is being aware. While you are at it, you can also imagine yourself being in a beach, feel the sand, feel the air.
See you can do that, physically you can be here reading this but, your awareness can also be on a beach, sitting by the sea.
Look what i am trying to say is, awareness is basically infinite, it is everything, it is everywhere.
Chapter 3 : How to be aware
Okay like i mentioned in the previous chapter just do this :
Focus on your breathing, you are aware that you are breathing now
Listen to a distant sound, you are aware of it now
Feel the touch of something, it maybe the device you are holding or just the feeling of your clothes
Now read this, remember and close your eyes :
Close your eyes and just feel everything, that you are here right now in your body, but you are not limited, you can be anywhere right now, because awareness has no limits you can picture yourself being in a beach or by the waterfall of a beautiful mountain, be aware of your surroundings, feel that grass or sand hear that noise of water and then you will simply realize that you are not your body, you are an awareness which can drift anywhere it wants.
Chapter 4 : Examples
You have a 100% experienced it yourself too i bet!
You are sitting in your classroom, suddenly you look up- and woop- your teacher is already on the last slide??? Wait didn't the lecture begin a while ago-!?
Soooo where were you?
Did you become invisible? Or your teleported ouuta the class Or just someone just made you skip the time-
None of that happened, you were right there in the class , you were conscious Of course , you weren't asleep, no one skipped the time for you, you were there. But you weren't just simply aware.
Your eyes were watching, your ears were listening, but you didn't recall any of it because you weren't. Simply. Aware.
