By Bernie Siegel, MD
BERNIE Living Consciously
hears. If you are alive and not under the effect of drugs you cannot help but live consciously. The question, however, is what are you conscious of while you are living? For me living consciously is about serving others through my acts
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of love. Life can be that simple. That does not mean that I do not care for and love myself as well and say no, on occasion, when things arise that I do not want to do. I am choosing to love the world in my way and not have the will of others imposed upon my conscious choices. Why we are conscious and why we have choices is to give our
lives meaning. The Garden of Eden, where I attend board of directors of heaven meetings as an advisor, is devoid of consciousness because there are no choices there. The weather is perfect, everyone loves you and after a few days it all loses its meaning and I am glad to get home to my wife and pets. When they love me it means a great deal because they are making a conscious choice to do so. Remember I did not say you have to consciously like everyone
and everything. I said to love. Consciously choosing to love will heal you, kill with kindness, torment with tenderness and blind the fault- finders of the world. Consciously loving another is the world’s great- est weapon. Some day may we all realize its potential to heal the world and bring the garden to earth. So tomorrow if you are fortunate enough to awaken from sleep
choose to love and live consciously. If you act like a loving grandpar- ent toward all living things you will become aware of what I mean. When all the children of one generation are raised on love by parents, educators and religions, creation begins and destruction ceases. If you want to evaluate your level of consciousness ask your- self these questions.
Who can I hate? Who can I love? Who is the enemy? What is evil?
‘There was the word and the word was with god and the word was god’ should read, there was consciousness and consciousness was with god and consciousness was god. God is loving, intelligent, conscious, energy. How is this revealed by the nature of creation? Think about the ability of a wound to heal and the fact that the conversion of water to ice defies the laws of physics. Ice floats and preserves our planet. Who worked that one out? No other liquid acts this way when frozen. Also cells are conscious in all living things. They make choices
and carry memories. We are seeing this today in the donor’s memories retained by transplanted organs. So the organ recipient’s conscious- ness is changed by these memories. Last but not least consciousness exists without bodies too.
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s a surgeon I have had the experience of operating upon peo- ple who are living unconsciously. I have learned that their conscious mind is still able to hear and is affected by what it
Bodies permit consciousness to perform acts of creation. That is
why we have them but when the body dies consciousness still exists. During near death, out of the body experiences, people continue to see and those who are blind see when they are out of their bodies too. What is seeing my friends? Consciousness is also what gives us our past life experiences. It
is consciousness that continues to exist, with its knowledge, and is passed on to a new body when it is born to life. Life is a school so please work at becoming a graduate student and stop hurting others who are not at your level of consciousness. God be with you. Or should it be consciousness be with you?
Bernie runs a Woodbridge Cancer Support group on the second
and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month and a Mind, Body, Health Support Group on the first Tuesday evening of every month at Coach- man’s Square, Bradley Road, Woodbridge, CT. Contact: Lucille Ran- ciato at 203-288-2839 or email her at
lranciato@yahoo.com or email Bernie at
bugsyssiegel@sbcglobal.net. Wisdom of the Ages, a special place to nurture your spiritual side.
It's filled with items to calm the mind, heal the body & empower your spirit. They also provide massages & monthly meditation classes. Wis- dom of the Ages is owned by Bernie's son & daughter- in-law, Keith & Jane Siegel. Located at 1408 Hopmeadow St. Simsbury. Please call for info or to register for Bernie's group. (860) 651-1172, www.wis-
domoftheages.biz. See ad on page 37.
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