The journey to increased consciousness

Our minds operate on two levels: conscious and sub-conscious. Our sub-conscious mind is exceedingly useful for performing mundane, repetitive tasks and our lives would be incredibly difficult without it: imagine if every day when you got up you had to learn to walk again!

The problem is that we have a tendency to let our sub-conscious mind take over and control all aspects of our life. We allow our thoughts and consequently our emotions and actions to be controlled by the programming and training our minds have received to date rather than taking conscious control.

When we begin to live more consciously, we take charge of our mind and with that we take full responsibility for our own life. Through this process we grow ourselves; we discover our connection to the universe and uncover our inner strength and courage. 

Creating the life you want

The Upward Spiral Project is about helping us all to fulfil our potential in every way.  It is about being more conscious or mindful in the way we live our lives, and reminding us that throughout our journey through life we should be constantly seeking to evolve and develop. We are not here to tell you what is right or best for you, but to provide you with the information, tools and support to help you work that out for yourself.  Taking personal responsibility for creating the life that you want is crucial to success.  There is no one right answer; no one 'correct' diet, no one 'best' form of exercise, no one 'right' spiritual belief, no one 'correct' way to manage your money.  There are however some basic principles that we should all adopt in our lives, such as positivity, simplicity, kindness, forgiveness and generosity.  

A joyful and fulfilled life requires a solid foundation. There are four key elements to creating a solid foundation for your life: physical wellbeing (Health), self-awareness and emotional wellbeing  (Spirituality), community (Relationships) and financial stability (Money). Each of these areas requires ongoing conscious engagement and development throughout your life. Many of us have unhelpful ideas or associations with one or more of these as a result of our upbringing or past experiences. It is critical to learn to let these go and embrace all of these four elements with positivity and enthusiasm.  Neglecting any one of these four key elements  or focusing too much on any one of the four will create an unbalanced and stressful life.

The Upward Spiral Project brings together a variety of resources to assist you in gaining a deeper awareness of each of these aspects and how they impact your life.  Those resources will help you to identify identifying those areas in your life that currently aren't providing you with the strongest possible foundation, and helping you to implement changes that will strengthen each area and the connections between them to create a balanced and harmonious life.

The way you see the world is unique to you

It is all about perception and how your attitudes, experiences and awareness come together to translate the things and situations you encounter.  How you think and how you interpret and respond to the world around you has a huge influence on how successful, happy and fulfilled you are.

Too often these days our lives are ruled by our egos and externally conditioned thinking that bears little or no resemblance to our true selves. This leads to anxiety, stress and depression as we try to conform and live up to other's expectations. To find happiness, success and fulfilment we must stop looking to the external world and instead look within. We must stop measuring ourselves against others and focus instead on understanding our own true purpose and motivations and begin living from our hearts.

A life lived from the heart enables us to be true to ourselves and accepting of all others, it empowers us to use our mind to achieve the life we long for and to do it in a way that serves the greater good not just our self-interest. When our heart and mind are working together in harmony there is no limit to what we can achieve. To keep our heart and mind working in harmony we must take an holistic approach; nurturing ourselves as whole beings and paying attention every day to the needs of our Mind, Body and Spirit on a journey of continual growth, evolution and inspiration.

The Upward Spiral Project was created for the consciousness evolution. We are here to support you on your personal journey of growth and empowerment. We provide inspiration, motivation and support through shared knowledge and experience.