Knowing Yourself

Knowing Yourself

Awareness is knowing who we are and being able to make conscious decisions about life and shape our belief systems. Some people grow up in some environments that portray women and other minorities as less than human and are properties. These people are thought of to not being able to make their own decisions and choices, which we have to protect them by making the choices and decisions for them. Other such societies are so very religious and believe everything that happens in their lives from the weather, life and death are out of their hands and god has all the power over their lives. People that follow or done any studies on the occults can surmise that the leader of the cults take complete control over the lives of their followers. Once you take over person awareness you take away their ability to make their own decisions therefore they become mindless zombies. Some people, who believe in such religion as voodoo, will actually have physically reactions to such things as curses and this may also result in deaths because they believe in that person actually have the power to control life and death and to make things happen for them.
Consciousness is about making choice, not allowing someone to shape our views of what we should do or the outcome we can expect, this is when we take complete control over our lives and decision making process. Not only is this very important, it is detrimental to the development of our children, the only way teachers can help students to learn and to be motivated. Teaching is not to make a student learn but to give the student the information and allow them to process that information on their own to come up with their own meaning of what they’ve learned. That’s why reasoning is very important; consciousness is what we do purposely. We allow people to make decisions that will impact their lives and the lives of people that are in that society.