Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - One From The Vault - The Down Side of a Conscious Mind - Episode 43

Episode Date: August 9, 2024

Here's One from the Vault of the Dragon's previous show called the Rise Up With Dragon Podcast. In this episode, Dragon flips the script on the idea that our universal goal is to become more conscious by unveiling the double edged sword of getting what you want. The Downside of A Conscious Mind can be found on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.  Connect with Dr. JC "The Dragon"  https://zez.am/makessense OUR SPONSOR: Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about this episode. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Great Morning World. Welcome to the Rise Up with Dragon podcast with your host, Dragon! Great Morning World. This unique five-minute format will act as a tool to take your good morning and turn it into your great morning and place you as the dominant force of your days. All right, folks, ready, set, grow. This is the downside of a... conscious mind. What the heck does that mean? A few thoughts as I warm up for today's journal entry. Remember this. We all only have two lives. But the second one begins the moment that we realize that we

only have one. In the miniature universe called the human brain, all 100 billion neurons all act by themselves and communicate with one another as if the brain was an astonishing, sense-making vehicle that had no driver. This awakening that we don't control our brain is a big breakthrough as it grants us permission to not buy into its thoughts as the definitive factors that make up our reality. How cool is that? So I want to share an interesting experience that happened this morning where I woke up and experienced what I referred to, to as a pang of anxiety upon waking up that was correlated to me thinking that I had lost something of value. It was a piece of technology that I found while we've been going through our move.

Upon running my interface response system and really evaluating it and questioning it and saying, huh, what's actually happening right now? I was able to identify in that moment that I didn't, in fact, lose it and that it didn't in fact have anything to do with the day ahead. I just thought that I did. So there was a thought that I bought into labeled, justified, and almost took with me that day. So it reminded me of how easy it was to take note of and buy into a flash of lightning that emits from our thunderstorm of thought that actually had nothing to do with our reality that day. So I smiled in amazement and began my day as the dominant force and creator of my reality, my foolish reality. Question, that break that you've been hoping for,

maybe sitting at the side of your bed praying for, if that break or what you've been praying for came to you today, are you ready for it? Are you ready to accept it and execute the work associated with it? Or are you just kind of comfortable hoping and praying for it, but not actually ready for it. It comes when you're ready and it comes when you accept the work associated with it. This is the downside of a conscious mind. We work so hard as humans, reading every book, podcast, everything out there to become more conscious. And as I often do, I love to question what its value is. What is the true value of becoming more conscious? What's the plus side and the minus side of it. Not in a pessimistic sense, but in a curious sense attached to the fact that we don't

really know what consciousness is nor where it stems from. You might have your own impression of that, but you know what? The smartest people in the world have no idea. They just have hypotheses and theories. Have we ever considered the idea that improving our consciousness and spending more time tapped into it could be disadvantageous or detrimental to us? Interesting. huh? Our biggest battle lies with the perception and judgment that we place on our thoughts and feelings. That's what happened to me this morning, but then I turned it around. I placed judgment on one of my thoughts and feelings. The act of recognizing our thoughts and feelings to some degree requires a level of consciousness, no? Call it self-awareness. Can we be aware of something without being conscious?

I don't think so. So I sometimes wonder if I'm better off sleeping through some of life's experiences and these thoughts that are happening. If we're aware that we don't want to buy into and label and judge our thoughts and create our reality based on them, can you see how sometimes we have to become unconscious to them and ignore them? So I sometimes wonder that. Now, on the bright side, if we've made a decision to only allow certain thoughts

in and require others to stay out as if we are the bouncer checking IDs and holding a guest list as the door that leads to our life, or consciously recognizing thoughts and feelings as just that, thoughts and feelings and not determinants of our reality. Then consciousness is a bonus in that sense. And I think that's the sense that we're all seeking. So my distinction today is that conscious decision of how we wish to live our lives and what we want to create is a crucial step that must take place before we start taking note of everything. What that's saying is, is that if you have a goal and a desired state and you've placed value on it and created that proverbial North Star and associated it with the things that matter most to you in life,

well, then that's when you can start sorting what gets in and what gets out. That's the proverbial guess list that the bouncer holds. Without a destination and a desired state, becoming conscious of our thoughts and feelings may become confusing and misleading. Makes sense.