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How can one become more aware and what support is there to be more aware?

"Unfortunately most people are still lame. They always need a stick to walk. Without a crutch they cannot walk. Support, once again, is at many different levels. If you are physically lame, you need a physical support. If you are psychologically weak, you need a psychological support. If emotionally imbalanced, you need emotional support. On a different level, if you are financially weak, you need financial support - if socially weak, social support. But these are different aspects. When I say support in relation to your growth spiritually, it was connected to all these things in a way. Some people need psychological support; some people need a physical atmosphere support. When they come to a particular program, they meditate well, they do their Shakti Chalana Kriya well, but if they sit at home, alone, they can’t keep their eyes closed and do any sadhana even for ten minutes. They need support. Physical atmosphere is very important for them. Without support - outside support - for a lot of people, not only their way of being, their awareness, even their sadhana disappears. Awareness is hard to keep. When I say hard, I am not saying it is difficult - I am only saying that it needs application, it needs awareness. It just needs awareness. When it isn’t there, to be aware or to make an attempt to be aware is hard. Now, awareness is not something that you have to learn or cultivate. The innermost core of your being is awareness. It is just that when people are living on the surface of their life, they are only experiencing the surface of what they are - just the body and the mind. Then awareness seems to be the most impossible thing, so difficult. But your innermost core is simply awareness. There is nothing to be done - whichever way you are, you are aware anyway." ~ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev What are your thoughts? Thank you for sharing.

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1. I think the word you are looking for is EDUCATION
2. A good teacher can make it an "Easy Yoke." More on my biography.
3. Author: His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Srimad-Bhagavatam Bhagavad-gita As It Is Life Comes from Life The Science of Self Realization Nectar of Instruction Sri Caitanya-caritamrta "We request you to chant HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA, KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE, HARE RAMA HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, and your life will be sublime." Further readings please try this site: http://krishnastore.com/compact-30-volume-srimad-bhagavatam-1977-edition-h-krishna-502.html?osCsid=2621855532ddf994350bf4713f5c1ee0
4. The Holy Spirit will be guiding everyone into all truth. Jn 16:13 And the truth will be making us free. Jn 8:31-32 ...but not before some have to pay for all their unforgiven sin in hell....
5. For starters, there's only one time and place that anybody can be more aware, and that's now and here. If you can your head to the place where you know that what exists for you is happening in present time, you can also know that you are perceiving the fast and the future from now. I find that it helps to have a positive outlook, and to look for those things that uplift your/my life. The most important thing I've found is that love is much more important and powerful in our lives than I ever imagined possible, and I feel like I'm just a beginner in learning about it. Seeing the world negatively will weigh down your consciousness and have you be less aware of those things in life that will elevate your being. It's also very helpful to be grateful for what you have. Best wishes!
6. This part below impresses me as both curious and true: " It is just that when people are living on the surface of their life, they are only experiencing the surface ... just the body and the mind. Then awareness seems to be the most impossible thing [to achieve], so difficult." How mighty is the surface, how overriding! How deceiving! How diversionary! One might take into one's account the testing of it all, the trial, where the rubber meets the road, without which undergoing all else is found to be but platitude, mere words, supposition. On a coarser plane, allow that we take into account this. Consider how many well-intended people go forth to achieve of good ends -- say, those who seek to work on behalf of wildlife preservation or, in other words, anything far out from the immediate compass that is best to be worked with first -- though environmental preservation is a good thing -- but which only addresses this thing of surface living, the easiest, and which living is not where the true heights and depths are to be fought-for, won, and achieved. The outside of nature is much easier to administer than is conquering the fits and start's of one's lower nature within as to balance the forces within. We should find it much more economical to stress focus and energy upon ourselves first that the outer conditions right themselves in due course, naturally, for then we will have let things alone, without our merest mis-import of power to avail those ends.
7. hmmm Sometimes people feel that awareness needs a special place, special props, that is needs to be set aside from the daily routines, when actually, it is an integral part, part of the flow of your life...if you chose to honor it
8. Either there is awareness or unawareness,there is nothing like more awareness.
9. Just be the self, silence all that is non you, the light of awareness within us illumines the whole being, life and the world and that is the sea of awareness in which we swim/navigate beautifully!