Chapter VIII Winning Awareness 169

CHAPTER 8.

Winning Awareness


“Mental states become conscious by winning the competition against other mental states.”

- Liz Else


Cognitive processes that are encoded with winning ideas and patterns emerge from winning awareness. To understand the idea of winning awareness we must return to the base-pair, to intentions and volitions, but let us first have a closer look at the concepts of awareness and energy.

Awareness

Awareness is an open space of the mind, a space which is connected to the present moment. Through awareness we experience the now as it is. How vastly and beneficially the awareness works for us depends on how many filters or amplifiers we have put on the entrances to the awareness. Fears, beliefs, norms and other mental patterns might change the reality into something else when it enters our awareness. For example, if we are taught that certain kind of people are dangerous, our awareness receives the message filtered with the symbol “dangerous” no matter how kind and loving the person is. The mental patterns can also act as amplifiers, when the meaning of the message is blown up and a mountain is made of a molehill.