What does it mean, “to become more conscious”? To begin with, becoming more conscious means to start looking for the truth for ourselves, instead of blindly allowing ourselves to be programmed, whether from without or by an inner voice within the mind, which seeks to diminish and invalidate, focusing on all that is weak and helpless.Ā To get out of it, we have to accept the responsibility that we bought into the negativity and have been willing to believe it.Ā The way out of this, then, is to start questioning everything.
There are many models of the mind.Ā One of the most recent has been that of the computer.Ā We can look at the mind’s concepts, thoughts, and belief systems as programs.Ā Because they are programs, they can be questioned, cancelled, and reversed; positive programs can replaceĀ negative ones if we so choose.
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, Ch. 4, pg. 55