Conscious Living: Mastering Health, Wealth, and Peace of Mind

Have you ever gone to the market, with some money with a plan that you will buy food which will last you for one week, but before you even reach half of the list, your money has finish? You might just stand in front of the tomato seller asking yourself, “Is it that I don't know how to manage money, or life is just playing me?”That kind of moment could show us how unconscious living can drain a person. It's like driving a motor without steering, you will be going were the car leads you. But if you live consciously, it's you that is holding the steering, it's you that decide where you want to go.

Conscious living simply mean that you are aware of what you are doing, how you do it, and why you do it. It's just to live life with sense, not anyhow. For example, if you eat food, you will be mindful of what you eat into your body. If you spend money, you will reason whether it will add value or it's just a waste.

However it's awareness that makes you to control your life instead of life taking control of you. It can surely help you to balance your physical and mental health, money, relationship, and even your spiritual life.

To live unconsciously is like a person which sleepwalk. However it just like you walking but you don't know where you are going. The cost is really heavy:

• Financial problems: You can spend money anyhow, buy things which doesn't have meaning. Before you know it, salary as finish, and debt start.

• Health problem: If you like eating junk food every day without thinking, it's sickness that will knock on your door. High blood pressure, diabetes, all are unconscious lifestyle.

	❌ Say NO to frequent junk food
✅ Say YES to home made meals for healthy nutrients

• Relationship breakdown: If you are not mindful of how you talk or treat people, you will lose friends and family might be angry, and marriage can scatter.

• Mental stress: When you live without direction, frustration will be much. You will feel empty, like your life doesn't have meaning.

Therefore this unconscious living can cost really than conscious living because you will surely pay with regret, sickness, and wasted time.

So to live consciously doesn't mean that you will just have to turn saint overnight. It's small steps that will carry you to there:

• Check yourself: In every morning, you can ask yourself , what's my plan for the day. Dont just dey do things anyhow.

• Control spending: Before you buy anything, ask: “ Do i really need this thing?” If the answer is no, please do well keep your money.

• Care for your body: Eat food that will give you energy, and drink enough water, don't decline to rest when your body needs it.

• Be present: When you are with people, drop phone, and listen very well. That's how relationship will grow.

• Spiritual balance: Pray, meditate, or just take your time to stay in a quiet place and reflect on yourself. That's how you will connect with yourself and God.

Conscious living is a discipline procedure or moment. It's not that easy, but it really pays.

Black then, I do live anyhow. When my salary enter, I will rush to buy new clothes, enjoy with my friends, eat suya every night I come back from work. Before the month end, I will borrow money. My health too wasn't balance, I do always feel tired, and my mind heavy.

One day, I attended one burial. The person that died was a young man, just 35 years. People do said that stress and lifestyle kill him. That day really shock me. I reason that life doesn't have duplicate. I start to ask myself: “If I continue like this, where will i go?”

It's from there I begin to see small change. I start to plan my spending, cook food in the house instead of buying junk food, I wake up early to pray and meditate. I begin to notice that my body is strong, my mind clear, and my pocket is balance now.

However conscious living is not magic like some people might think, it's a choice. So no doubt every day we do always have a new chance to choose something better. And the truth is that, once you start it, you will be wondering why you didn't begin earlier than this.

So in all let's have in mind that conscious living is just like that light that shine on a dark roam. If you try to discipline yourself in conscious living, you will finally know where you are going and what to do at the right time. If you drop it, you will just stumble. So the question is: do you want to live consciously or you want to do things anyhow?

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