How to develop your skills of consciousness

Let’s have a brief look at the main moments of development skills of consciousness. 

Attention

The essence of training the attention is to sacrifice yourself fully to that deal, which you are involved in today, not being distracted to something different. Meanwhile, during fulfillment of something, track your feelings, emotions and thoughts, which you have in the process of it. 

Training of attention during the communication with an interlocutor means to listen to him attentively, switch off your internal critics over this person and instead start to pay attention to what he is wearing, which gestures he uses, what to be done during a conversation, etc. Your objection is to shoot his image and at the same time to recognize your internal state (thoughts, feelings) during your communication with him. 

It could seem as strange, but you should be also attentive to the object, which you have chosen to train your consciousness. Concentrate your attention on its details, on the material it is prepared from, color, form, etc. It perfectly develops concentration and technique of directed attention, which is used even in yoga practices.

Conscious vision means that instead of concentrating on one and the same object, choose for yourself some one aspect and keep attention only on it. For example, walking, notice for yourself all the objects of blue color. 

Movement

Practice of conscious movement happens when your attention is directed to your actions, which happen at the present moment. Manner of walking, rhythm of stepping, arms movements, touch the ground by your feet. Usually we do not pay attention to our actions. But every moment of our life is unique. Every click on the keyboard, every movement of fingers, every hand gesture is unique.

Realization of feelings could be put to the category of movements: which objects by touching, what is their texture, temperature, what your hands feel, how you react to feelings.

Self-knowledge

The better we know and realize ourselves, the better we understand the world. And the best way to know yourself, your strong and weak sides, what is interesting for us, even to find out our hidden talents is  creative work. Meanwhile creative work in its classical meaning is not necessary. It could be any creative work, it means the activity, where we give our soul.

Creating something, we, in essence, create ourselves. We remove from our image all irrelevant, get rid of general stereotypes and find what makes us unique. We learn ourselves through creativity self-expression. We stop being afraid of ourselves and, consequently, we open ourselves more to the world.

So, the state of consciousness could be developed due to all separate aspects of life and to spiritual practices. We have already written about usefulness of becoming a “conscious” person.