Coming To Perceive The Music Of Life

Life is a ceaseless orchestra playing a beautiful melody. We come to hear that melody when we have developed the sensitivity required to recognise it.

Each person, with regards to their own lives, is faced with the task of becoming more conscious of their own experience of life by developing themselves. Although we may be aided by others as we progress through that journey, the impetus for progressing through it must come from us. For the vast majority of us there is a significant part of this journey which will be travelled through by us in a less conscious manner. It is these parts of our journey that represent those moments when we may be engaged with the world, only less consciously than an individual who is consciously engaged with it.

This changes though as we continue to develop ourselves. What begins as large stretches of time where we are unconsciously engaged with this process populated by rare, brief moments of conscious engagement with it, gradually transforms and turns into long periods of time where we are consciously engaged with this process with rare, brief moments of unconscious engagement with it in between. This transformation from the one state to the other is a natural biproduct of us engaging with the process of developing ourselves.

Therefore, in some way, the process of self development, or what we could just as equally refer to as an individual ‘walking their spiritual path’, is in reality the process by which we consciously begin to recognise which parts of our life we tend to be unconsciously engaged with. We bring these into our awareness so that we can shift the way in which we interact with the world around us, essentially becoming conscious of those parts of our lives that before we interacted with in a less conscious manner. 

Initially, looking at our lives in such a way typically results in us becoming shocked because we begin to realise to what extent we were actually consciously engaged with our lives. The shock occurs because we begin to realise that the majority of our lives up to that point were being engaged with in an unconscious manner. It is our subsequent conscious engagement with those parts of our lives that we were previously unconsciously engaged with that affords us the ability to make real and foundational changes in our lives. Patterns which seem to have been repeated for many years are all of a sudden broken, precisely because a behaviour pattern cannot continue to repeat whilst it is held in our conscious awareness.