Stop Living on auto-pilot – The Secrets of Conscious Living

There is said to be a secret underground organization that can predict how someone will act in advance. This organization uses the data from millions of street and network cameras in countries around the world to map and predict human behaviour.

Is this true? Does such an organization exist? For this topic it's not important – what is important is the following question:

If Someone Has a Recording Of 60-80 Hours or More of Your Behaviours (E.g. Driving … walking into shops … etc. the common places that are videotaped) Then How Much Could That Person Predict Your Future Behaviour?

The less conscious a person is of their behaviour the easier it is to predict how that person thinks and acts. Most of their life is on auto-pilot. Each one of us has auto-pilot programs that kick in when we enter extreme emotional states like severe anxiousness or sudden fear. The old mental programming and survival-instinct takes over. But the rest of the time (in 'regular' consciousness) we have a choice. The choice is to decide upon each action with full awareness and presence of mind or to just go on auto-pilot and do things like we're using to doing them.

Let's look at how we can avoid a repetitive predictive life.

Pledge To Do Something New

Make a pledge to decide when waking up each morning on something new to do. Even a task that takes 5 minutes to do that is a brand new experience counts.

The more we force ourselves out of existing habits and patterns the easier it is to become conscious of repetitive negative patterns to transcend them.

Do Something Radical

Take a regular 'normal' event like having dinner and do something radical instead. For instance learn to cook something new or experience a different cuisine. Doing things from a new perspective brings about consciousness and often also brings about more efficient and better life outcomes.

Oppose Yourself

Think "what would [Your Name] do in this situation?" Then do the exact opposite. This is not applicable in all situations but it's an excellent means to bring about consciousness in others. For example if someone at work or school keeps provoking and insulting his co-workers the regular response might be anger or avoidance. Now flipping this response to the opposite (e.g. happiness and acceptance) has an intersting effect. If we flip an old habit like this it causes an instant shift in consciousness 99% of the time. Both people in the interaction stop and think "what just happened?" and then switch out of auto-pilot and into consciousness for a few moments.

Learning to use opposing responses can be a great asset. Most people expect certain behaviour from individuals who have exhibited that behaviour once before. It's easier to slap labels on people rather than seeing them as whole conscious individuals. Using reversed and opposing responses is one of the techniques that don't allow those labels to stick.

I decide how to respond right now in this present moment. I'm not going to respond with anger just because someone might expect me to after insulting me. I'm not going to respond with a moral decision just because someone might expect me to be "spiritual" in all the decisions and actions I take.

Don't allow expectations and labels dictate behaviours. If someone is expecting an auto-pilot response: do the opposite.

Speak From Your Heart

People tend to use the same verbal expressions for months and sometimes for their entire life. Expressions like "what the hell?" … "God help us" … "I apologize…" "Thanks…"

These are often auto-pilot expressions.

Do we think "let's sit down and ask for divine assistance and protection" or is it just something we like to use – "God help us" – as an auto-pilot expression?

Do we think through what we're apologizing for? Or is it just an auto-pilot expression? Most of the time when I come to an error page online it will state "we apologize but this page is unavailable" or something along those lines or "we apologize but this search came back with no results" or "I apologize but I can't help…" the last one doesn't even make sense but it's used all the time. Knee-jerk responses like expressing genuine sincere regret or gratitude seldom reflect those feelings at all.

How about "If You Do That I'll Kill You"
"That's terrible. Your going to kill me if I do that?"
"Oh no, it's just an expression…"

Be conscious of words. Speak from the heart. Not from the mental chatter box that keeps running like a tape recorder with a 20-Year-Old cassette. Language and words are powerful expressive and creative tools. Being conscious of each word as having a real and genuine meaning is sacred.

It's a process that leads to conscious living in itself.

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