By Fernanda Beccaglia
We live in extra-ordinary, historical and revolutionary times. A revolution that is taking humanity beyond forms and shapes. The revolution of our time is what I call the revolution of Consciousness. For many this doesn’t come without suffering.
Consciousness, which has been sound asleep under the spell of the identification of the “I” is slowly waking up. There is an increasingly powerful alarming impulse, and the number of people sensitive to the wake up call is getting louder and stronger.
So what does exactly mean to ‘wake up’?
The effects of this “impulse” is waking everybody up at one level or another. Everyone I know it is being stretched and tested beyond his or her “capacity.”
Life is a classroom for all life forms and living beings, not just for a few and it seems that challenges are needed in order to be awakened. The key is to see challenges as opportunities and use them properly so they can propel us to a higher and greater state of consciousness. So say yes to all the challenges that come your way, by embracing the present moment, accepting the lessons and blessings instead of complaining about them.
Though the amount of people awakening today is far larger than ever before, many are still unaware of what they are actually experiencing and can’t tangibly define it with words.
My clients tell me “all they feel is that successes achievable in the world are less and less attractive to them, that there has to be something deeper, more profound and more meaningful in life than successes, failures and material accumulation.” As a consequence, they get exposed or connected to the experience of emptiness and suffering.
According to ancient wisdom, suffering arises through our minds — unconscious thinking or, in other words, the voice in your head comes from not knowing the true nature of reality. For many, the state of suffering is very real as they cannot separate the event from the voice in the head that gives meaning to the event. Can you see then that suffering doesn’t arise from the event itself but the mental commentary surrounding it? Continue reading “The Time is Now to Wake Up!”