“Stop running off of unconscious conditioning.  Wake up and be conscious of what you feel,” Kaylor Betts.  It’s only when we are awake and aware of what we are feeling that we can make a different decision.  We need to know when to break patterns and when we wake up to the things we did without thinking, the things we do because they are familiar, that is when we can make real strides toward better decisions.  Decisions more in line with who we are.  Yesterday we spoke of the difference between vulnerability and vulnerable and part of what makes us vulnerable to external forces is being unaware.  If we don’t know who we are, we don’t know what decisions are ours because we are doing what we are told and often operating under subconscious programming.  Our current system enjoys having robots, people who don’t question, so the needs of the system are met.  When we know what our needs our, we question such things.

I love that Betts speaks of being conscious of how we feel because feeling is often the first way we understand our needs.  There is no implication that emotion is weakness or that doing the work to know who we are is vulnerable or demeaning or a waste of time.  The suggestion is that we need to know what we feel in order to know who we are and what we need.  The feeling is the primary driver here, but it is not necessarily solely in respect to emotion.  I like to extrapolate that into how we feel in our lives.  If we do something not in line with our values, we feel it.  If we do something that doesn’t feel right on the most basic level, we feel annoyed or out of place.  It’s important to stop disregarding the signs our body gives us because our emotions do have a physical expression.  Becoming conscious is key to stepping toward the life we love, the life we desire. 

When we awaken to our needs, we are no longer asleep to who we are.  We are no longer vulnerable to outside influence because our actions are based off of our values rather than what others tell us we are supposed to do.  People who wake up to their lives, their needs, are dangerous to a system that wants us to function to meet its needs.  For those who struggle with the emotional concept and think it’s selfish or not the answer, I want to express that being awake is more than just how we feel.  The feeling is how it starts, but being awake is about seeing other opportunities, other solutions to how we live, other ways of operating that don’t deplete the individual or resources.  When we are in touch with how we feel (or how we want to feel) and what we value, we see more than the impact on ourselves, we see the impact on the world and it makes the ideas spin a bit faster and in a different direction.  Being awake doesn’t solely focus on the individual even if it starts that way.  Being awake is being aware of our purpose and the place we want to have as well as the impact we have on the world.  Being awake isn’t some new concept—it has become vital to how we live.  Wake up and feel the truth of who we are and spread our light.