How to raise one’s Level of Consciousness

• Meditation
• Spiritual practices: prayers, sadhanas, mantras
• Mindfulness – Slower rhythm
• Concentrating on the body and the bodily feelings
• Insight – Clear understanding – Truth
• Positive thoughts and emotions: four supreme efforts
• Inner silence – The sound of silence
• Love, compassion, joy, equanimity
• Focus on the heart: feeling the warmth in the heart
• Inspirational readings and teachings
• Devotion
• Wonder for life and its many expressions
• Relax, let go, smile, laugh
• Walking in nature
• Physical exercise
• Sacred songs, singing
• Listening to music or playing music
• Raw food diet, organic food
• Helping others, good deeds
• Contemplating art works or creating art works
• Presence of high frequencies: holy places , vortex, sacred art …
• Company of spiritual friends and enlightened beings
• Beingness, presence, pure consciousness, the view
• Pure vision: seeing all beings as buddhas …
• Seeing the unity of all things (unity consciousness)
• In a very busy environment: seeing the play of manifestation and the interrelationship of beings and things functioning as unity consciousness

How to lower one’s Level of Consciousness

• All negative emotions: greed, anger, hatred, jealousy, fear, selfishness, feeling a victim 
• Stress, agitation, anxiety
• Cities and overcrowded places
• Hospitals, prisons, shopping malls and supermarkets, airports, nightclubs
• Concrete or metal buildings
• Travelling by car, bus, train, subway, airplane
• Immoderate use of computers, mobile phones and other electrical or electronic devices
• Television, newspapers, magazines, internet, movies, novels
• Company of people who are in a low level of consciousness
• Conflicts, gossip, idle conversation
• Unhealthy diet, junk food
• Intoxicants: tobacco, alcohol, drugs, chemical drugs
• Pollution: air, water and food; noise pollution; electromagnetic pollution; air conditioning
• Overwork and excessive mental activity