What is Consciousness-based Self-Mastery?

Self Mastery is not just about Success!

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
” Viktor E. Frankl”

Isn’t this so true in today’s COVID-19 pandemic situation?

Consciousness based Self-Mastery is about Success, Happiness and Peace all together

We have not just changed ourselves in this new normal post COVID-19, but we have transformed our lives forever. Did we know that we are capable of doing this? Not at all!

We could do it because we all have seeds of ‘Consciousness based Self-Mastery’ within us! We need to be just aware about the need for it.

When the situation forced us to stay locked inside to save our and others lives, we did that!
When the situation forced us to not meet our loved ones for their safety, we did that!
When the situation forced us to spend more time with ourselves, we did that too!

When external situation demanded, we were pushed to our limits of self-transformation. Truly successful, ignited and aware souls keep working on themselves every time and keep becoming better individuals each day.

They do not compete with others, but with themselves and keep improving by knowing who they are and then managing themselves and finally achieve Self-Mastery to walk on the lifepath they were meant to be. Ultimately they reach Self-actualization!

There are 4 Stages of Self Mastery

Know Yourself —-> Manage Yourself—>Master Yourself—- Self-Actualize

Self Mastery has often been synonymous with ‘Success’ alone. However, I am of the view that Self-Mastery is hollow with ‘so called success’. Only when it is accompanied with True Happiness and Peace, will it be well-rounded Self-Mastery – or rather I say ‘Consciousness Based Self-Mastery’.

We need to work at 4 Planes to reach the stage of Consciousness-based-Self-Mastery

Physical
Mental
Emotional
Spiritual

We need to work on all these 4 planes starting from Physical till Spiritual.

Again, there are 4 ways to build ‘Consciousness Based Self-Mastery’

1. Self-awareness

Your thoughts are constantly taking you into the future or the past so, consequently, this is probably where you spend most of your life. To be aware is to be present—to live in this moment, the NOW.

To be aware is to always keep coming back to what is happening NOW.

The NOW is where you connect with your Higher Self, with your Essence. Being aware is to witness your thoughts, emotions, actions, and the world with non-attachment.

2. Discernment/Choice

Everything in life before Self-Mastery is a choice. Your choices give rise to actions and then that creates results or success and the life you create and live. When you allow the ego to control your choices, you live in lower vibrations. When you choose forgiveness, compassion, and Truth, you move into your Mastery.

To discern is to choose wisely with an all-encompassing outlook. First, you need to be aware that there are choices and then to choose consciously – to become the conscious choice – maker.

The subtlest level of discernment is to ask the heart for guidance so your choices come from love and not fear. When you choose Light over darkness, the whole universe opens to support you.

3. Decision

Once you have made your conscious choice, you need to have the courage to act on it. The ego is always waiting to distract you, and the closer you approach Self-Mastery, the more powerful the distractions become.To be focused on the path of Self-Mastery requires you to be one-pointed without being rigid. Be like water – easy-flowing and unstoppable. To be firm without oppression, to be resolved without judgment, to be strong with humility.

Water is flexible & strong. Flexibility is the sign of strength; only dead bodies are brittle. Take your conscious choice and make a commitment to it, while still remaining unattached to its outcome.

It requires you to practice silence and stillness so your inner wisdom can reveal itself. Surrender to the Divine so when things don’t seem to be going your way, you realize there’s an even greater opportunity waiting for you. Self-Mastery also requires you to be courageous, to step out from the crowd and know that there’s no turning back. Be aware of the distractions, witness them, and let them go. Stay focused but flexible. Look for the clues that will be sent to help you. Transmute any difficulties into opportunities. Trust your inner wisdom.

4. Realization/ Manifestation

When you realize your Self-Mastery, you radiate your Light and Divinity for all to enjoy. You can neither harm nor be harmed. Lonely becomes solitary freedom, Happiness becomes bliss, separation becomes wholeness, your feminine and masculine qualities merge. You realize your Oneness. Fully awake in the I Am Presence, Pure Consciousness, Truth, Love.

You will not be trying anymore for anything, yet arriving! There is no need for choice in the regular sense because all your actions are spontaneously in alignment with Natural Law.

This is what I call Consciousness based Self-Mastery!

Realise, when this little voice from within starts questioning you, that you are one of those chosen ones who have got a chance to expand consciousness. Most of us are not this fortunate.

Let me quote Margaret Newman, a living legend of the American Academy of Nursing, who authored the theory of health as expanding consciousness:

“Every person in every situation, no matter how disordered and hopeless it may seem, is part of the universal process of expanding consciousness—a process of becoming more of oneself, of finding greater meaning in life, and of reaching new dimensions of connectedness with other people and the world.”

Let us understand it clearly. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but are spiritual beings having a human experience for a brief period. And we all are interdependent on each other, whether animate or inanimate object. There is a design of this Universe and we all are nuts and bolts of this huge machine called the Universe.

Stage 2: Getting to the right people/situations

This stage could be a bit tricky because most of us do not know what it entails to get to the right person/situation, which can lead us to the final stage of the expanding consciousness. To make it very simple—we just need to be correctly aligned with the Universal Life Energy.

What is Universal Life Energy? There is a consciousness that animates and connects all life. Some call it ‘Universal Life Energy’ or ‘Unity Consciousness’.

Now, the next question is: How do we align with the Universal Life Energy?

When we raise our vibration and increase our energy sensitivity, a natural flow of the moment can be perceived as a sense of ‘rightness’. When we follow this flow, we move into alignment with the Universe, and life feels increasingly harmonious. We feel successful, fulfilled, and abundant.

For this to happen, we need to be physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually on the correct path. We all understand when we are standing on the ‘wrong’ side of life and still do not have the willingness to cross the fence and come over to the ‘right’ path. Be it as simple as eating right, behaving right, having kindness for others, helping each other grow with a truthful spirit, or trying to reduce negative traits progressively throughout life.

If your awareness about yourself is sustained over a consistent period and you make sure to ‘align with the Universal Life Energy’, then it’s a given that you are heading towards the right people/situations meant to be on your path, to elevate you to the spiritual dimension by expanding consciousness.

Here again, please bear in mind that the people/situations won’t always be of the pleasing types; often, they would be challenging the status quo of your life. For example, you might lose either a prized possession or a close relationship. The ‘best job’ as defined by you might just slip out of your hand mysteriously or you might find yourself very lonely in life, on the verge of insanity. This is the time to realise that you are the chosen one!

Stage 3: Being ready to absorb the Universal messages and, finally, to expand consciousness

You would have an innate desire to have a spiritual experience. Along with this, you would encounter people/situations who challenge the status quo of your life. However, if you do not have the courage to walk on that path in the spiritual dimension, you would narrowly miss experiencing the life where the symphony of harmony plays. Unknowingly, you might not be able to persist with stage 2 described above and show signs of withdrawing back to the materialistic plane because that is always the easiest option all along this journey of expanding consciousness.

The trick is to sustain full awareness of what is happening within you and not get daunted by the experiences that challenge you and get lured by the idea of withdrawing into the materialistic plane. Rather, keep moving along; it might pull you out of your comfort zone but you already know that what lies on the other side is much more marvellous and grand. So, keeping the goal in mind, try and dance in the symphony of ‘challenges’ thrown at you. The ‘rising up’ after so-called ‘defeats’ on this journey will re-energise you for a longer time and will keep you going far beyond what you had originally set out for.

The most important thing to realise here is that you are the chosen one to have reached the final stage for expanding consciousness. Because of this, you are not going to let it slip out of your hand at the ultimate stage. The Universal messages might just flow into you anytime and you must be able to receive them in full.

You might get an altogether different meaning to your life. You no more feel like drifting in life. Also, you have the most suited profession for yourself which aligns with your life-path. The new relationships are sparkling and making you shine in life. Abundance is just flowing in from sources that you never imagined. Does it sound too good to be true? But don’t you see how much you have laboured for this? And you truly deserve it because YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE!

Some mindful actions required:

Practice meditation consistently and regularly
Avoid being in negative energy zones (people/ situations)
Align completely with the Universal energy (no wrongdoing)
Be yourself, increasingly, every day (throw away the masks)
Keep the company of people who are true to themselves

YOU HAVE FINALLY EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS AND ARE LIVING A LIFE WHICH CAN BE CALLED ‘SYMPHONY OF HARMONY’

Sandeep Pandit (also fondly called Sandy) is a free-spirited and spiritually inclined person. He is the Founder – Soul In Harmony, a recognised name in the field of Intuitive Life Coaching, Mindfulness Coaching, Reiki and Hypnotherapy Healing with a difference. Sandeep blends spirituality, mysticism and Mind Power in his Life Coaching programs across the globe.