Awakening Is A Choice

Consciousness is a limited or expanded awareness. Source has all kinds of ways of getting our attention when it needs to. However, it’s always a choice to open the lens of transformation, or to stand still.

Limiting the flow of information shuts down the empathic channels to the heart. Instead of moving us into our resources to create alternative paths. The tendency is to seek safety in the past or a defined future we can control.

In this episode, we explore the new science, acknowledging our spiritual pathways for awakening. And the challenges we’re facing if we continue on our present course. Where do you choose to live?

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Music Provided by:  Dan Vega
CD - Capture Magic
Songs: Choose Love, Remember
Coming Home, Capture Magic
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The Copper Heart Art for Heart Sense
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Transcript

Hello, I’m your host, Riverann. And this is Heart Sense. A podcast for aligning, strengthening, and opening our hearts to a frequency of love that heals ourselves and our planet. 

It’s great to be back after a personal loss in my life last month. Thank you for your understanding, patience, and being here! I truly appreciate your commitment to yourself and this podcast.  

I love Dan Vega’s music. He takes us to the ultimate destination of life and makes it simple. 

We’re living in a time of unprecedented stressors so challenging that it’s sometimes feels almost impossible to find balance. In 2023, the World Health Organization estimated that there were 280 million people living with depression. 

We are facing a crisis. Because the wellbeing of all depends on a healthy, interconnected web of life. When people disconnect from themselves and one another, chaos usually follows. From my perspective, it appears we are already feeling this effect globally. For in times of uncertainty, without spiritual grounding, humanity falls into darkness.

This episode explores the choice to live in awakened awareness. From there, we can engage our inner resources in life-changing ways. 

For those who need science to verify truth. According to new research, individuals who strongly prioritize spiritual growth have more resilient minds and bodies. By analyzing brain MRIs, scientists uncovered these findings in women and children with different levels of depression risk. The images showed the high-spiritual brain was more robust and healthier.

Although some refer to spirituality as a set of beliefs to lean on that have no basis in truth. New findings indicate that everyone possesses inherent perceptual abilities. When we exercise this intuitive intelligence, we become stronger, healthier, and more open to creative solutions. 

This new science shows that our brains have a neural circuitry for spiritual awareness. A lens that opens to expand recognition of experiences that have long been overlooked as components of healing. Exercising this inner vision allows us to see what we know at the core of our humanity. That all life is sacred.  

When the mind awakens to this connection, it observes things differently. We begin to live beyond the view of a fragmented world, into a dialog with life. We embrace an innate awareness of love, guidance, and the interconnection of everything. This includes the energy manifesting our present-day realities. Which suggests we need more accountability.

If we focus solely on achievements, relationships become transactional and motivated by self interest. However, an awakened heart is more open to choices that affect both the individual and others.

My question for you today is, where do you want to live? In a fragile world disconnected from love? Or grounded in a conscious heart with the power to transform your life?

Think of your awareness as a spiritual docking station that feeds information from your heart to your mind. Together, they open a giant lens, like in an observatory. When used, it inputs information undisclosed before. And as our personal universe expands with more vision, we open to a resonance with all life.

If we ignore this awareness, the lens becomes clouded by outside elements. And our lives may not feel like our own.

The animal kingdom instinctively perceives life with a sense of self awareness and adventure. They dedicate their lives to observing the world around them and its constantly changing environment. They appear to understand their connection to nature and life. Allowing survival and joy to strengthen and attune them to the present moment.

Psychologists have discovered that the mind often chooses the past or the future, instead of the present moment. So many of us have a tendency to make life-changing decisions from this place. We might ask ourselves as intelligent human beings, why?

Believing in a hierarchy of intelligence may be humanity’s downfall. Add to this belief — free will over instincts, and the mix becomes manipulation and control. Both aspects of these human gifts can limit our peripheral vision. And the depth we’re willing to go to understand our universe. If we truly desire a fulfilling life. Exercising spiritual and cognitive awareness is essential for growth and happiness.

As we embrace the power of an awakened awareness. Humanity may step forward with more compassion. Because as our vision expands, so do solutions and possibilities.

Opening this lens invites us to connect to life with intuitive intelligence. Grounding ourselves with the earth provides healing. In this sacred place, we commune with the essence of nature—the interconnectedness of life on Earth.

The events unfolding in our world today demonstrate minds that are not yet awake, striving to exert control over outcomes. This limited awareness of breeds resentment towards anything that hinders it. 

Can you imagine the extent to which this perspective dismantles freedom? When we dismiss the flow of life embracing us, we’re refusing to receive more fulfillment.

But it's not just living in the past and future that throws us off track. It’s also accepting social structures and behavior from a sense that we have to fit in. This kind of codependency denies the individual’s voice and can leave us feeling fearful and insecure. 

Consider this thought. When we lose control of our lives, it may be because we have essentially stopped trusting ourselves. We seek and question an inner guidance that we yearn for.

Life’s mysteries may exist because we disconnected ourselves from sourcing our intuitive intelligence. We learned to dismiss things that weren't facts. Because society labeled knowledge sourced from any place other than science or religion as magical thinking. 

This training has dimmed our courage to seek a broader view of the universe. And it has stifled our human evolution. We’re living through moments of transformation as the walls of limitation crumble with human awakening. 

We can only experience real change by gaining self-awareness. It’s essential to recognize that the timing differs for every soul here.

An awakened mind can stand comfortably among those who only recognize science and religion as truth. These people are functioning at a different frequency. Their strength comes from knowing the source of their information is different; but unlike science, it never changed.

For those who embody the characteristics of a powerful yet gentle leader, remember that you have company. Allow this knowledge to support you authentically by showing up as who you are. Because the gifts you bring are crucial for changing our current situation.

People come into this world with different paths, purposes, and challenges. Some will lead us into a new paradigm. They are those who have discovered the lens to awakening.

The saying "Great minds think alike" is familiar to all of us. It’s possible that there's a connected web of consciousness we can all tap into. If we choose to live in resonance with life, we birth an identity of wholeness. Knowledge that there is more to access within ourselves if we accept the invitation.

So where do you want to live? Are you ready for a place of your own choosing? Has it previously been around those who overwhelmed your personal truth? Just remember, the universe responds when we're ready. 

Acknowledging our intuitive insights decreases stress and strengthens our resilience and wellbeing as it awakens our awareness of everything. There is no reason to give any personal power to environments deficient in love. 

Let your heart's messages guide your decision-making process. And decide where you’re going to live. 

OUTRO

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Thanks to Dan Vega for sharing his original music for this episode from his CD, Capture Magic. You can find a link to his music in the show notes and online by going to: danvegamusic.com

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It’s my hope that these episodes bring more light to your heart, more vision to your life, and facilitate more healing in the world.                                                 

This is Riverann. Thanks for listening.