How do you experience large shifts in consciousness?

My last blog post was talking about how releasing trauma is really a shifting of a state of consciousness. Someone asked me how to shift their state of consciousness.

Really, honestly, I think that every day we're actively shifting our state of consciousness millions of times...just very, very subtly. But how do you get those larger shifts in your state of consciousness?

Well, I think that it comes down to the fact that we need pattern interrupts in our life. We go through our days pretty much in ruts of doing the same things repeatedly. We go to the same workspace, we have the same morning routines, we drive the same roads every day to get to the same places. We get to a point where we get a little bit complacent. Instead of interacting with things, we just kind of react and regurgitate in ways that are the same way we have done it the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that. But when something comes along and causes us a massive pattern interrupt, it changes our perspective and makes us look at things in different ways.

Trauma itself is actually a major pattern interrupt. But how do we intentionally shift our state of consciousness without having to experience massive trauma? I think there are so many different ways to do that by practicing things that allow us to become more intentional in the way we're interacting with the world. Practicing things like meditation and utilizing things like sound healing can be really, really powerful. As well as getting out into nature, movement practices like yoga, or qigong, there are many things that can be really, really powerful pattern interrupts.

But it all comes down to you. I can't tell you how to shift your state of consciousness. I can only tell you things that have worked for me.

What works for you? What is going to interrupt your patterns? What's going to get you to actually interact with the world in a way where you are a little bit more conscious of what you're doing, where you are present and interacting instead of just reacting. Because when it comes down to it, that is how you start shifting your consciousness. little by little it starts to build into greater shifts.

As you become more present and more aware in life it steamrolls into a place where you start to become more aware, more opened up, and start to have higher connections, higher states of conscious consciousness. That's when the large shifts starts happening.

That is also when you start realizing the triggers that your past traumas are giving you. Because really, when it comes down to it, the trauma that we're carrying is a past event that we're reacting to in the present moment as if it is still happening to us now, in this moment. Just realizing that and recognizing that is the first step to actually being able to release the trauma.

But in order to do that, you need to not be just on autopilot just reacting to the world. You need to be interacting and be present. That is the first step.

Ultimately though, how you shift your state of consciousness, I can't tell you that. That is inside of you. And on some level, you already know the answers, it's already there waiting for you. It's already inside of you.

So tell me, how do you shift your state of consciousness?
I'm asking you.