AWARENESS & CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness, or rather awareness, seems be an extremely common word and to have been such for quite some time now, describing a state of mind, feelings, or even some kind of meaningfulness in the present.

It is, however, astonishing how little we act according to it and, above all, in a mindful manner.

This is not so much due to the fact that we don’t want to, but rather due to the circumstances that prevent us from doing it.

Lack of time, stress, how we set our priorities, and the mere thoughts of acting with awareness, attentively and mindfully. How exactly this should look like is not clear to us on all levels.

The zeitgeist we live in may make us take ourselves too seriously and hardly act authentically in order to conform to the norm. But letting go and acting in the here and now has its merits and serves our self-determination.

To some extent, we go through the world mindlessly and attempt to conform with the zeitgeist of our generation.

But then there are the few moments in the day when we are fully aware of what we are doing and when we are in sync with ourselves. This can occur in a wide variety of situations and does not always have to be associated with various encounters.

Rather, it has to do with our own attitude towards ourselves – let’s call it inner contentedness.