How Can You Break Free of the Collective Consciousness?

This is where applied mindfulness and nontoxic positivity come in.Photo by Chris Andrawes on Unsplash

You are the only you that there is. Hence, you’re the only one in your head, heart, and soul. Nobody but you can think your thoughts, feel your feelings, determine your intentions, choose if your approach is positive or negative, or take action, but you. These are wholly your choices to make.

Or not. Because, as singular and unique as you are, you are also part of the greater collective isness of the universe. Ergo, we are all one.

When you get down to the deepest, most core parts of everyone and everything in the universe, it all comes down to energy. Everyone and everything in the universe is made of energy. That connects us all.

The collective consciousness is mostly a subconscious idea. It’s where all of our beliefs, values, and ideals meet together and form agreements. Those agreements are how we get our nations, cities, communities, tribes, cliques, and so on. The collective consciousness is very nearly a living being in and of itself.

It is open to being swayed by influencers, demagogues, popularity, opinion, and fear. It can also be swayed by logic, reason, understanding, and love. Yet unless you see it for what it is, you can and will be overwhelmed by it in one form or another.

But you can break free of the collective consciousness.

It starts by recognizing your individuality

One of the reasons that so many things are called out as selfish is to keep control over the masses. The more people who live by rote, routine, and habit, subconsciously, the more that certain powers — such as government, religions, businesses, and the like — assert control.

We are collectively discouraged from recognizing and celebrating the individual, save certain exceptions. Specifically, the exceptional. Star athletes, A-list celebrities, and certain others are held up as extra special and extra worthy. They might be exemplary in some way, sure, but they are not more special, worthy, or deserving than you and me.

Nobody is on this Earth to serve anyone else. Every single human being is here to experience all that life has to offer, good and bad. Nobody is simply here to survive. Every single one of us is here to thrive.

You are worthy and deserving. Recognition of this, of what makes you uniquely you, is the start to breaking free of the collective consciousness and its expectations, traditions, “shoulds”, and so on.

When you recognize and embrace yourself and the importance of your individuality, you can begin to break free from the collective consciousness.

Photo by Levi Jones on UnsplashThe collective consciousness is a subconscious entity

Everyone has three minds. The unconscious mind regulates your heartbeat, breathing, neurons firing, digestion, and so on. The subconscious mind is where your beliefs, values, memories, ideals, and habits exist. The conscious mind is your active, functional awareness of who, what, where, how, and why you are, right here and now.

Distractions of our modern society tend to shunt people toward rote, routine, and habit via their subconscious minds. Before you know it, you’re following this pattern or that path with hardly a thought or feeling. That is, until it hits you.

It stops feeling right, and you question why you are doing or being something or someone. And/or dissatisfaction or distress about who, what, where, how, and why you are hit — singularly or together. That’s the conscious mind asserting itself. That is waking up.

Yes, that’s being woke. And I don’t know how in the hell anyone can think that’s a bad thing. I’d rather be awake and aware than asleep at the switch. How about you? But I digress.

When you start to question your thoughts, feelings, intentions, approach, and actions, you make yourself consciously aware. Ergo, mindful. And mindfulness is a major key for breaking free of the collective consciousness.

Active conscious awareness pulls you out of the collective consciousness. This can also be boosted and strengthened with nontoxic positivity.

Nontoxic positivity for conscious awareness

Toxic positivity is positivity that wears blinders. It denies, disregards, and ignores negativity and other bad things. Which is bullshit. Bad and negative things can, will, and do occur. You can’t ignore them, deny them, or wish them away.

Nontoxic positivity recognizes and acknowledges the negative. It sees it, then applies it to learn a lesson, gain new perspective, and/or shift a given situation within your control.

It’s all too easy, especially given the current state of the collective consciousness, to go on a doom spiral. The doom and gloom, negativity, uncaring, and cruel are overwhelming. We can’t break them from without, but we can break them from within. Ergo, when you work on yourself and are mindful of all your inner workings, you can make changes to control what is within your control. Then you can break free from the clutches of the collective consciousness.

When you start to break free, and others see that, they are often inspired to follow. And from there? Maybe we can shift this fear-based collective consciousness toward something more reason-based. But recognize and acknowledge that it must begin in and with you. Then you can start to break free from the collective consciousness, with yourself, via mindfulness and nontoxic positivity.

Breaking free from the collective consciousness isn’t hard

It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.

When you recognize and acknowledge that the collective consciousness is a subconscious entity, separate and apart from you — yet also part of you — you can use mindfulness of yourself and nontoxic positivity to start breaking free. Knowing that it’s not selfish to be mindful and that you are worthy and deserving of choosing who, what, where, how, and why you are, you can be present here and now, seek nontoxic positivity, and make choices and decisions to do just that.

This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.

Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.

Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself opens the way for a positive approach and attitude via your actions. This can lead to realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.

The better aware you are of yourself here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, that can spread to those around you for their empowerment.

Thank you for coming along on this journey.

This is the five-hundred-and-ninety-eighth (598) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.

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