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Conscious Living Made Easy - Robert Southard
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Introduction
Everybody want to go to heaven,
But nobody want to go now.
− Jim Collins & Martin Edward Dodson,
sung by Kenny Chesney,
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Conscious living is taking responsibility for what you do, for living a life without regrets, and with planning your life rather than just letting it happen. Everyone’s going to die, conscious living offers the opportunity to live the life we want in an aware way.
As children, we think we are immortal. Even as we get older, we think it is someone else
who will die, not us. We view our death as far off and we have plenty of time to do whatever we want. Conscious living is accepting that death is a part of life and planning for it, while not allowing it to dominate our lives at any age.
Conscious Living Made Easy will guide you to understand and accept death as part of life. The author’s brush with death will help you appreciate life and overcome your fear of death. We will explore the reasons why we don’t want to die, why we fear it so, and how we can integrate death into our conscious and sub-conscious beliefs (or, as I like to think of it, our spiritual tapestries).
This book will help us open ourselves to the reality of death, while guiding us through the reality of life. It will lead us through some of the key elements for you to live a full and rewarding life.
Not all aspects of our lives will be perceived as happy and wonderful. But, all aspects affect and guide us towards what we need to learn.
We can meditate or journey and have good thoughts and good feelings – when everything is going well. What happens when life isn’t as smooth as we would like:
Under a lot of stress at work
Lose your job
Face a phobia
Get cancer or some other traumatic disease
Lose a loved one.
The fact that you’re reading this book is a good indication of your desire to live a full life, in good as well as difficult times. However, we are not perfect and can all take steps to improve our attitudes and actions in our lives – at any age. We can choose to have positive thoughts and actions over negative thoughts and actions.
We want to feel and understand the preciousness of life and try to live life to its fullest.
It is never too late to change your life, even if you’re 85. You may not win in the Olympics at this age, but you can still fulfill a realistic dream – recognize where you are in life and go from there.
At this point, you’re probably thinking/hoping that I’m going to give you some magic words or a meditation that solves all your problems or eliminates all grief.
I wish I could do that, too.
Our responses to challenges of any type are shaped by our experiences in life, the culture we grew up in, our spiritual beliefs, the relationships we’ve developed and many other factors. I don’t believe there is one response for all people to the different situations, problems and illnesses we encounter. We will explore methodologies and firmly establish our core beliefs so that we will have more confidence and internal guidance to help us through difficult times.
A key to conscious living is your spiritual tapestry, a concept I introduced in my earlier book, Ordinary Secrets: Notes for Your Spiritual Journey. Briefly, it helps you to face, establish, and integrate your beliefs into your way of being. It helps you to deal with whatever comes your way. You can use meditations, affirmations and other tools which we will discuss to help, and to determine what you like to do and then work towards that. In the background and guiding you is your spiritual tapestry. Certainly, there is no one way that will work with all people. However, I do believe that there is a methodology that we can each follow to lessen the effects of difficult occurrences.
I am writing this book for several reasons. The first is that I truly believe that living consciously provides a much fuller and more interesting life. We should know that our death will happen. And, as part of this process, I will ask you to acknowledge, respect, accept and know that death will come, and can at any time. Instead of fearing death, allow the knowledge of its existence and reality to help you live life more fully – to live consciously.
Another purpose is to discuss some of the attributes of aging so that people of all ages, but especially younger people can more fully understand what happens as they try to deal with this process, and that an understanding of aging will help us as we try to live conscious lives.
Finally, from my own explorations of life, death, spirituality and living consciously, I would like to offer some thoughts and meditations, and offer ways for you to focus your life in such a way that you can identify what you would like to do and develop a plan to do it for yourself and to help others.
You may or may not agree with my views and comments on life and death, and that’s okay, but perhaps in reading this book, your thoughts will be stimulated in your own way, deepening your understanding about your own life and death.
Conscious Living Made Easy is experiential. You can just read it, and hopefully get something out of it. However, there are several meditations included which, if used, will help you to understand aging, the fear of death, and determine what you want to do in life among others. I believe that the more time you devote to these meditations, the more you will get out of life.
This book is not about religion. It does involve spirituality, which can be enhanced through religion or not. Depending on your outlook on life, and death, there are different ways to view death:
The spirit or soul goes through a number of lives to learn what we need to.
Whenever we die, that’s it, nothing more.
I personally believe in the first, but I’m not pushing one belief over another. In fact, while belief in the first may ease somewhat