by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Last week, I declared 2012 the “Year of Consciousness” for NaturalNews (http://www.naturalnews.com/034554_c…) and pointed out that the ultimate solution to ending tyranny, wars, corporate deception and environmental destruction is to upgrade our consciousness rather than “killing our enemies.” This announcement was greatly appreciated by NaturalNews readers, who for the most part have a very positive outlook on 2012 and beyond.

But there was something missing from the announcement: How do we achieve higher consciousness?

And I don’t mean burning a roomful of candles, chanting mantras for seven years and mastering the art of transcendental meditation (which takes a lifetime or more). That’s not practical for most people in the real world today. What we need is a practical way to upgrade our consciousness right now, here in 2012, in our own living rooms.

That’s what this article is about: Five practical ways to raise your level of consciousness starting right now. (I’m also publishing a follow-up article listing things to avoid that crush your consciousness.) For this article, by the way, “raising your consciousness” means expanding your awareness of reality, expanding your connection with other human beings and living systems, and deepening your sense of free will, liberty and being the master of your own destiny through applied decisions and actions. It is not just a “sense of self” but also a heightened sense of how your actions impact the world around you.

Here are the five steps:

#1 – Spend more time in direct contact with nature

Want to boost your conscious awareness? Turn off the TV, ditch the X-Box, and go hiking in a state park somewhere. Go trail running. Plant a garden. Or just take your dog for a walk!

Spending time in nature heightens your senses, opens your heart and expands your sense of connection with who you are and the miracle of creation. So make an effort to spend more time in nature, and if you can manage it, move to a farm or ranch where you can actually live in nature.

#2 – Eat more high-vibration living foods and superfoods

Raising your consciousness means raising your nutritional standards, too. You’re never going to attain a high level of self awareness if your brain is running on junk food, chemical preservatives and artificial colors. Those are things, in fact, that destroy awareness and cognitive function.

The highest-vibration foods you can get for awareness expansion are wild-crafted foods you go out and find yourself (in a forest, a field, etc.). The second highest foods are those you grow yourself, usually in a home garden or a sprouting machine.

After years of studying and teaching nutrition, the pattern is obvious: People who live on low-vibration foods (junk foods, fast foods and processed foods) have diminished consciousness and impaired cognitive function. They tend to have narrow, selfish minds and are incapable of assessing information from a wide perspective. They live on microwaveable dinners, they drink diet soda, and they vote for whatever political candidate the media tells them to. They are, in essence, “zombies” who operate more as brainwashed consumers than conscious human beings.

The junk food poisoning of our modern world is one of the most astonishing un-reported stories of our generation. I plan to cover it more here on NaturalNews, by the way, to reveal the links between the junk food supply and the downfall of complex civilization. For now, focus your effort on increasing your consumption of high-vibration foods, meaning living foods, sprouted foods, wild-crafted foods and home-grown foods.

#3 – Clean your clutter to clear your mind

Is your house a jumble of clutter? Do you have so much junk stacked up everywhere that you only have a narrow pathway through it all from your bedroom to your kitchen? The more clutter you have in your home or office, the more cluttered your mind tends to be. Eliminating that clutter is key to finding some peace in your own home.

I’ve struggled with this, by the way. The situation becomes even more complex when you practice preparedness food storage like I do. As the boxes, cans and other gear stacks up, it’s not easy to get it all put away in an organized manner. The thing I’ve found that works best is a heavy-duty steel shelving unit (purchased at a local hardware store) combined with high-quality storage bins like these made by Akro-Mills: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0…

I use Post-It tape (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0…) and a permanent marker to write labels on these bins. The tape is sticky enough to stay put, but easy to pull off if you ever want to change the label. My bins are labeled with titles like: Flashlights, Batteries, Compass & Navigation, First Aid and so on.

#4 – Observe your decisions as if you were your own life coach

Instead of just making decisions and taking actions from your own first-person point of view — I want a cookie, I feel happy, I feel angry, I need a job — zoom out and take the greater perspective of being your own life coach.

In other words, view your actions and decisions as if you were your own consultant. If you have a particular outcome you would like to achieve in life, ask your inner consultant how that might be reasonably achieved.

For example, if you want to lose 50 pounds of body weight, improve your skin and experience a better sex life, your consultant might give you a reasonable course of action involving dietary strategies, daily exercise, and a reduction of stress. But when you view your life from your own (first-person) eyes, it’s tempting to say, “I want to eat a pizza,” or “I don’t feel like exercising.” That’s why letting your consultant have a say in your life is a wise strategy.

In terms of consciousness, the mere act of invoking your inner consultant is, all by itself, a meta-level advancement in your perspective (and therefore, consciousness). To be able to observe your own actions from the perspective of an outside consultant is a necessary step to grokking the world through the eyes and hearts of other living creatures. It is the gateway to empathy, in other words, and empathy is the gateway to lasting peace.

War can only be waged from the perspective of “I” that lacks the greater awareness of connectedness among all living things. “I shoot you” is the mantra of modern warfare, and yet all by itself, the statement is illogical from a higher perspective because “you” and “I” are bound together in non-material ways that transcend our material bodies. Read more in my article on consciousness:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034554_c…

#5 – Increase your commitment to spiritual practice

No matter what your particular spiritual practices, deepening your commitment to spiritual awakening will automatically raise your level of consciousness. Whether you go to an organized church or simply practice your own personal form of spirituality, enhancing your commitment to that practice will reap rewards beyond the material.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you have to go to church to be considered spiritual, by the way. If God is everywhere, then he’s also in your living room. A church may be beneficial in many ways, but it does not have a monopoly on connecting with the spiritual realm.

For some people, a “spiritual practice” may consist solely of meditation or even taking a vow of silence. The point of such exercises is to turn your attention inward, to better know your inner self as a step toward connecting with your “higher self” (or spirit or soul or even God), which is both divine and non-material. Regardless of the particular terminology or spiritual practices you prefer, deepening them will have a profound impact on your level of consciousness awareness in day-to-day living.

Remember, we are more than material beings. And there is much more out there than the crude matter into which we typically find ourselves entwined. If you are not spending some time each week exploring the bigger questions of consciousness, philosophy, life and the after-life, then you are missing out on the most important part of having a conscious mind in the first place.

In summary

Got all that? Here are the five practical steps again:

#1) Spend more time in nature.
#2) Consume more high-vibration foods.
#3) Clean your clutter.
#4) View your life as if you were your own life coach.
#5) Deepen your commitment to spiritual practice (even if it’s just a few minutes a week).

These five steps are simple but powerful, and they will dramatically alter (and improve) your experience of life. Coming up next here on NaturalNews.com, I’m working on an article about five things that destroy consciousness — things to avoid, in other words, as you work to enhance your conscious awareness. Watch for that article in a few days.

Big City Living is a ‘round-the-clock rollercoaster of fun and fatigue, fraught with ‘urban emissions’ both physical and energetic.  Whether you sink or swim through the LA smog-sea, you must yet brave a 24/7 onslaught of aura-disrupting EMFs, commuters’ and criminals’ negative thought-forms, and the soul-sucking energy drain of corporate advertising.  But life can often be great in the City of Angels, and that’s why I still choose to call LA ‘home’.

And for the boldest of us, who dare to both have and eat our metaphysical cake, I bring good tidings.  Because if my experience with my favorite gift this past holiday, a TigerEye LifeBEAT Cohere Bodywear Bracelet, is at all representative of the EMF-protective abilities of the rest of the product line, then city life just got easier for everyone.

Though that’s not what this story is about.  Because there’s plenty more to this little fella on my wrist then just keeping me clear of the LA noize.

A few times a year, I visit family and friends in Northern California.  These trips are also when I indulge in my favorite pastime: rock climbing.  And since I’m too busy to regularly trip outside of LA’s concrete jungle to satisfy my climbing fix most of the year, I’m usually woefully out of climbing shape when I hit the granite back home.  That means multiple sessions wasted on playing catch-up, just so I can (hopefully) pick up where I left off by the time vacay ends and I fly south again.  Not the best way to go about it, certainly.

This past holiday break, however, was a different story.  My first day back, I certifiably ‘rocked’ a full-day session, fueled only by grapefruit, granola, and…hematite?

That’s right – something about my magnetic hematite LifeBEAT bracelet really tuned in my balance and proprioceptive sensitivity and, dare I say it, that king of climbing assets: finger tendon endurance.  I had left that morning fully aware that this would likely be a ‘wasted day’ of re-greasing old grooves and pacing through easy routes that I might barely manage to grit through, with the hope that I could lay some necessary groundwork for future climbs – and that, if the stars aligned and I could avoid injury, I might approach a previous ‘best’ before my time was up.  Amazingly, I instead not only outperformed my own expectations, but easily bested both my climbing partners, who had taken comparable breaks from the sport before our reunion climb.

It may certainly have helped that I set my intent, going in, to take full advantage of my bracelet’s qualities in holding my energetic self in coherence.  Whatever the case, the results that day spoke for themselves.  I lasted far longer and pulled much harder than my friends or I expected, and was fresh enough to go again the very next day – a trip I made on my own, as my friends needed the time off to nurse their aching forearms and fingers.

Since returning to LA, I’ve kept the bracelet on during all my workouts and have noticed a significant boost to those skills most involving balance and hand strength.  Before receiving my bracelet for Christmas, I’d been plateauing hard in my mission to perform the one-armed handstand pushup and the one-armed pull up.  In the weeks since, I’ve made significant progress: where I once struggled to do three limited range-of-motion (ROM) headstand pushups, I can now knock out four, full-ROM handstand pushups on parallettes – I imagine the single-arm variety with limited ROM isn’t far off, though it might still be awhile before I can knock out true, deep, one-armed handstand pushups off my parallettes.  Still, that is some significant progress.

Likewise, I can now do half a one-armed pullup and am closing in on the real deal.

Another balance-intensive exercise, the one-legged squat, has become smoother and easier on my knee thanks to improved body control on the descent.  I’ve since ‘graduated’ from a single 53 lb.-weighted one-legged squat to knocking out four-rep sets with dual kettlebell weights of 35 lbs. held in each arm, all with less knee strain than before.

Of course, strength and balance skills like those described above require intensive, regular practice to see improvement, and I am reluctant to praise the bracelet alone for its contributions relative to my focused training regimen.  Nevertheless, the improvements I’ve made are astounding, and entirely out of character.  And at the end of the day, there’s little else that explains my ability to scale the rock after months of languished forearm disuse, especially because I’m (cough) a bit heavier than I was in the past.

I look forward to hearing other LifeBEAT performance athletes share their stories about their time with these bracelets.  I imagine I’m not alone, and that my story is not unique.  I’m anxious to hear more from my fellows.

So to the rock climbers out there, “Happy ascending!”

On second thought, that goes for the rest of you LifeBEAT-ers as well.

- John

LifeBEAT User

A Testimonial on the LifeBEAT Sprays

            I’ve got four days left.

Just four more days until my roommate – a good guy, to be sure, but a guy with a budget like the rest of us – closes shop on my month-long, all-expenses-paid trip into his weird and heady world of spray-on success.

You read that right: I’m sharing house with a proud (and, lucky for me, charitable) owner of the entire LifeBEAT Sprays collection.  As it is, my experience so far with the LifeBEAT Challenge (‘try the sprays for thirty days!’) has been an entirely subsidized one, the occasional rideshare or Laundromat pickup notwithstanding.  A pretty unbelievable deal, if you ask me.

So for the past twenty-six days, my usual morning ritual has expanded to include the following:

• A spray to the middle of the brow ridge with Serenity.  These days, the Ascension energy courses so strongly that I often wake up more ‘psyched-up’ than is comfortable, so I blast my Third Eye with Serenity first thing.  It immediately pacifies the mind-chatter so I can go about my day with a clear head and calm nerves.
• My Heart then gets a direct dose of Bliss, which I use to further quiet the mind while I open up my heart to function as my main interface with the ‘external’ world.  With Bliss, I am at my most generous, making me receptive to the needs of others; it keeps my intuition riding high so I can respond to others’ inner desires without filtering those desires through my own ego’s impulses.
• I then take a double-shot of Power – one spray to the Throat and one to the Solar Plexus.  The former emboldens me to speak my mind without embarrassment, and the latter gives my energetic center a healthy gut-punch that switches on my ability to direct my outward-focused energies as an influence upon the world.
  • I follow up with a dash of Money Magnet straight to my spinal base, which unravels lingering attachments to survival issues and material fixations.  I take a moment here to focus instead on my present abundance, and call upon my innate ability to moderate my energy exchange with other people and with my environment.  The spray assists me in holding the high-frequency recognition that currency is but ‘energy flow’ made material; with Money Magnet, I don’t get in my own way when I go about attracting the precise balance of energy that my ‘now’ self requires to be at its best.
  • Next, I sprinkle Brain Balance on the crown of my head, and take a second to focus my awareness on the sounds entering my right ear before shifting focus to the sounds coming from my left ear, and perform this switch a few times before moving onto the next spray.  This exercise, performed in conjunction with the spray, facilitates my daily effort to sync my (dominant) analytical left-brain with my creative right-brain, which is key to my work as a businessperson working with creative types.  Hemispheric harmonization also enhances my physical coordination and agility, which I rely upon as an avid weight-lifter and rock-climber.
  • Following this, I apply Transition to my crown as well; this spray is a personal favorite for its assistance in clarifying my purpose for the day, which can often be clouded during these tumultuous times.  It defogs the befuddlement I sometimes feel with regard to how my energies could best be applied, and helps me shrug off physical tensions related to the Ascension process.  By “creating grace and ease”, as the label suggests, Transition helps me look past the unpleasant distractions associated with my ongoing shift into new circumstances, and reassures me that my path is, in fact, inherently certain, and certainly worth the investment.
  • A spray of Karisma directly to the heart boosts my sense of self-love, which I find to be my most enduring source of true confidence in the challenging world of business.  Karisma tunes me into a wellspring of self-comfort with my abilities and talents, enabling success and self-command to flow forth unimpeded by self-defeating thoughts or fear-based anxieties.
  • In conjunction with Karisma, I activate my sacrum with the Romance spray.  I consciously link my Karisma-activated heart-center with my Romance-activated sacrum, which is the source of my sexual and creative energies.  By expanding my sense of self-love to include the sexual domain, I come to fully accept all aspects of myself as a sexual being.  The ability to comfortably and totally reside in my own skin grants me control over both my sexual and creative impulses, so I can then broadcast a pure message of myself to all whom I encounter.
  • Finally, I finish up with a healthy serving of Enigma to the crown and the brow as I tune into the mantra that “I intend to ascend!”  This opens me up to my gratitude for having been brought into this most special of places and times, and whets my thirst to assist others as I would myself.  I have come to know that my capacity for compassion expands with each effort I make to shine brighter for those around me, and to live in the ways I would wish others to live.  With Enigma, I do not let myself diminish so easily when I encounter negativity from friends, family, and strangers; rather, I find it less of a challenge to brighten even the darkest of corners, satisfied in the knowledge that the shadows will soon light themselves by compassion’s example.

In addition to my morning rounds with the nine sprays, I apply them again at least once during the day and always before bed.  Twenty-six days of regular application has facilitated inexplicable breakthroughs in my career, brought about more than one (material) windfall, furthered my athletic goals in the weight room and on the rock face, forged new and truer connections with family members both older and younger, and, of course, expanded my spiritual sensitivities and intuitive communion with my soul purpose.

But of course, the learning and growing is never quite done.

Twenty-six days into the ‘challenge’, and on the day I decided to share my experience with other LifeBEAT-ers through this post, my roommate clued me into something he’d (mistakenly) thought I’d been doing all along.

Apparently – and this is something that purchasers of the sprays should already know – the sprays ship out with an instruction set on how best to set your intent for maximum effectiveness.  As a free-rider skating by on friendship’s benevolence, I had not had the pleasure of unboxing the sprays for myself.  And so, it may seem, my twenty-six days might have been even more life-changing had I included the suggested ‘intention activation’ exercise, rather than winging it freestyle.

As with all spiritual matters, the following is but my personal practice and is a tweaking of the original method that I find best suits my intuitive self-guidance.  Curious parties may consult LifeBEAT’s original instructions, if they wish; here is my interpretation: 

Spray with Intent!

            Intent is key to unlocking the DNA-activated instruction set encoded in the sprays.  You want your intent to be as focused as possible, which means fully inhabiting the ‘now’ moment during which you become the change you intend to experience.

The following three steps take you from surface-level subsistence into the deeper, fuller perception that ‘now’ is all that is, and that personal change is therefore free to manifest from the simplest of intentions:

1. Aspire to be better.

Ask yourself, “Wouldn’t it be nice, if… [your intent].”

1. Anticipate the improvement.

Ask yourself, “Won’t it be nice, when… [your intent].”

1. Be the change you desire.

Tell yourself, “Isn’t it nice, that… [your intent].”

With each step, grow closer toward the change.  And at the last step, shift into the space that you are your intended ‘change’, and that you presently exist as a manifestation of your desires.  In other words, your reality has arrived, and it is good.

            I’m eternally grateful toward my roommate for sharing his sprays at a time I truly needed them, as well as for sharing the intention activation exercise.  This gives me four more days to try out both together.

And I intend to make these four days count.

Sincerely,

John

LifeBEAT Products User

Ascension is an evolutionary transition that involves the dramatic expansion of human consciousness, primarily through the process of physical, psychological, and spiritual integration of the self.

How this process is perceived and experienced is unique for each individual, but certain universal core mechanisms underscore the process. LifeBEAT Product’s Bio-energetic Performance Activation Sprays and Cohere Bodywear line can provide a uniquely powerful complement to the Ascension process, mitigating the physical maladies experienced by many and accelerating the expansion of consciousness and perception.

There are a number of LifeBEAT Products that can assist in the ascension process. The specific results will vary from user to user, so I will speak with emphasis on my own personal experience.

First and foremost, the integrity of the auric field and its circuitry is of the utmost importance as the physical and energetic body is upgraded during ascension. EMF pollution wreaks havoc on the auric field and can easily cause it to fissure, crack, and short-circuit, while simultaneously disrupting the physical body — in particular the endocrine system, which plays a critical role in the pharmacology and bioenergetics of ascension.

The Cohere Bodywear line creates a state of quantum coherence within your energetic field that will deflect a significant portion of rogue EMFs that would otherwise be detrimental to physical and energetic health.

The first time I used a Cohere Bodywear product (the Tiger Eye Merkaba necklace), I sat down in my home office, surrounded by my desktop and laptop computers, iPad, cell phone, wireless router, wireless printer, etc. My immediate reaction was “WOW.” I felt completely different in that space, and it was clear that something significant had changed. We are so constantly bombarded by EMF pollution every day that we often do not even realize that something is wrong. Our bodies just do not know any better. So it was not until I experienced the absence of EMF pollution through the use of Cohere Bodywear that I realized what a state of coherence actually felt like, and what I had been subjecting my body to all this time.

That was about a month ago, and since then I have been able to dramatically accelerate my capacity for energy and healing work. More on that later.

In addition to Cohere Bodywear, LifeBEAT’s line of Bio-energetic Performance Activation Sprays are a key component in my ascension support regimen. Among them, the Enigma spray is easily the most powerful and directly relevant to the process of ascension. It contains over 2,000 unique DNA sequencing instructions that are delivered through the spray into the body’s morphogenetic field where they are held for a period of four-to-six hours, during which time they are readily available to the user through the simple alignment of intent. Some of these instructions include DNA activation, activation of the higher chakras (chakras eight through twelve), soul ray attunement, and expanded capacity for self-realization — all crucial aspects of ascension.

Transition is another helpful performance activation spray. It assists by fostering an experience of grace and ease through transitional periods by accelerating spiritual evolution, whereby one develops greater self-awareness, self-purpose, and learns to dissolve habitual attachments. In the context of ascension, it is particularly effective in alleviating or mitigating the aches, pains, and feelings of apathy and lethargy commonly experienced by those undergoing this process. These symptoms tend to be more severe in those born prior to 1987, and users in this age group will experience maximum benefit from the Transition spray with regards to the physical hurdles of ascension. All users will benefit from the emotional support and stabilizing effect it provides. I know I have.

Bliss helps to quiet the mind — especially its tendency toward pernicious chatter — creating peace and inner tranquility that facilitates meditation, self-exploration and soul searching, as well as enhanced intuition. It is also helpful in releasing addictive behaviors and thoughts, which are often among the most challenging barriers to surmount in the process of self-evolution.

Serenity calms the nerves and helps to expand conscious awareness. It is balancing and grounding, and assists in stabilizing mood swings and other tumultuous emotions. It also alleviates nervous tension and facilitates the release of chronic fear, doubt, and worry. So many of us in modern society are locked into a perpetual state of anxiety, a state of contraction that precludes the ability to move forward on one’s evolutionary path. Serenity, along with Bliss, may also prove helpful to those exhibiting physical symptoms of ascension.

Power creates a state of focused productivity that has many applications. In the context of ascension, I have found that the results of my energy and healing work are vastly accelerated when using the Power spray. Furthermore, Power helps me to inhabit a conscious state of self-empowerment, creating a sense of expansion and limitless possibility. It is one of my personal favorites from the LifeBEAT line.

Romance fosters feelings of self-love, that all-important element of personal transformation and ascension that undergirds one’s innate ability to light sparks in the ‘external’ world.

Finally, the VitaLazer Food and Beverage Laser helps supercharge my food, drinks, and supplements, modulating and increasing their frequency to one optimally supportive of my own, as well as neutralizing my body’s response to environmental toxins and contaminants. Dietary hazards such as artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, fluoride, chlorine, bisphenol-A (BPA), monosodium glutamate (MSG), artificial food colorings, and many more can be severely disruptive to the physiological processes of ascension – especially, again, the endocrine system, as well as the reproductive system (central to the production of creative and regenerative energy). The VitaLazer mitigates the effects of these toxins not by removing them or altering their chemistry, but by programming the foods that contain them with a homeopathic-like instruction set (i.e., a resonant frequency) that modulates the body’s response to these toxins so as to neutralize their effects. As an added benefit, it also improves the flavor of almost all food and beverages.

I began using LifeBEAT products a little over two months ago, and in that time have experienced a profound expansion of my consciousness, an acceleration of my energetic capacity and abilities, the release of many lingering fear-based programs and thought forms, significant fat loss, improved mood, and a dramatic improvement in my overall level of health and vitality.

Ascension does not require you to purchase any product. There is no admission fee to ride this evolutionary roller coaster. However, I have found that LifeBEAT products have significantly alleviated many of the less pleasant aspects of the process, and have accelerated my progress far beyond what I had previously thought myself capable. If you are committed to the path of consciousness evolution, spiritual awakening, and personal evolution, and if it is within your means to acquire them, I trust that you will find the many solutions available from LifeBEAT Products to be invaluable resources in your personal toolkit. I enthusiastically endorse and recommend the above products without reservation, and am confident that all spiritual seekers will find great benefit in what LifeBEAT has to offer.

Peace and Blessings,

Jonathan

LifeBEAT User