People Feel Good Exercising their Body but what About their Consciousness as a Source of Confidence? – (1724)

Introduction

I have heard people many times say that they feel more confident, and generally better when they have been exercising and working to develop their body. This makes sense as exercising the body brings more capabilities to us and improves the health of our body. We may be able to run further and quicker, we may become stronger and more skilled at certain things etc. and it is quite natural to feel a little more confident in these areas. However, to feel dependent upon, or feeling it a need to have the body exercised and in shape indicates that something has been misplaced within us.

Old Age

When the body gets old, its health, strength, control, speed, flexibility and overall general abilities fade. So then when that happens what we use to feel confident and well won’t be yielding in that way. So then may realise that we have made a mistake in deriving confidence from the wrong source.

Work the Consciousness and Derive Confidence from Having the Consciousness more Awake

What makes more sense is to derive confidence from our own consciousness. That is by exercising our own consciousness, working it, cultivating it and using it in our daily life to our advantage.

There is so much advantage to be held by having our consciousness more awake. Many things in our life can be avoided and many things can be solved when we have our consciousness more awake.

Identity in Consciousness

The reason why we make this mistake is because we have a identity taken from the body, or our body forms part of our identity. Which it does but it is not the major part. The consciousness is the major part.

If we derive our identity from our consciousness we are going to naturally work to use our consciousness more and take more pleasure in seeing it being used and developed.

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