Conscious living. We hear this phrase often enough – you may use it yourself – but do you really understand what it means? Do you know how to achieve it? And do you really want your life, your choices and your responses to be conscious?
According to Caroline Myss, author of Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can (Harmony), consciousness is something we seek, and then run from. Why? Because consciousness demands responsibility and action. If I know I’m being harmed, if I know I’m harming someone else, if I know I’m not living up to my own personal honor code, there is only one way to respond consciously: I have to act. I have to change whatever I am doing or not doing. I have to change the way I am living.