How To Achieve Three Qualifications Necessary To Start Raising Effective Consciousness For Self Development

According to Project Gutenberg, for a person to successfully start raising effective consciousness for self-development, three very important characteristics are necessary: desire, will and intelligence.

Desire is what gives us the drive to pursue what we want. It propels us forward and fuels our consciousness when nothing else seems to be right. Desire is necessary because just like a human’s most basic desires such as the desire for food and water, it will provide the impetus needed to achieve a more effective consciousness and self-development.

A strong and burning desire needs to be gratified. This need for gratification will enable people to face even the harshest battles just to achieve their goal. Where there is desire, a result follows.

A person searching for self-development should desire for spiritual progress most earnestly. People’s minds are powerful. We can obliterate a desire and then we can create one. To do this, your imagination will come into play. Picture yourself being hundreds of times more productive and useful when you have already achieved your goal. Think of the things you want to do or the people you want to help. Think of moving to a better and more satisfying life. Picture yourself living a life closer to what you want to be than what you currently are. Do not give up create your burning desire.

Desire is only the first step. To maintain it and to stick to your goal, a will of iron is needed. The world is full of temptations and tribulations that sometimes, or more than just sometimes even, we forget who we are and what we want to do or want to become. The weak will never succeed. A firm will is necessary to keep us from being a being of the tides of life. We should actively pilot our own lives all the time.

To ensure a will of iron, you may want to plan beforehand. When things are good for you, try to make up a list of directions for you to do when things become hopeless. Do this because we think most clearly, when we are calm. When the time comes for you to use this plan, do not hold back and do it.

Fortify yourself and become a person with will of steel! You might want to include in your plan what to do when you experience “inertia of the body”. It is when you feel like your body does not want to move even if your brain tells you to. During hard times, many people experience these changes, which should be given attention to.

Lastly, to ensure effective consciousness and self-development is an acute sense of intelligence. Intelligence is needed to control the force of desire and direct your will of iron. Do not fret if you have not gotten A’s at school or have not read gazillions of books. Intelligence is a latent faculty, which can be evolved when needed. Just like, how a muscle develops when you exercise frequently, so does the mind.

Just reading and accepting what you read will not develop intelligence. Take everything you see and read with a grain of salt. Read discriminately. Read between the lines. Analyze. Interpret. Consider what you read from every point of view you can think of. Put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. Weight what you read thoughtfully. Juxtapose with other beliefs and then decide.

When you are with others, try to detach yourself for a while. Become and outsider and observe the people around you. Look and analyze their facial expressions, words and actions. Create mental pictures. Let your imagination run wild. You would be surprised where it would take you. Observe and imagine but never forget to live.

When you have created your most ardent desire, formed your iron will and improved your intelligence, then you are ready and able to sally forth and start raising your effective consciousness and improving and developing yourself.