Psychology Essay
Nathen Alkhabaz 10/26/2014
Professor Dietz
Psychology 11
Term Paper #1
The Art of Living Consciously
What does it mean to live consciously? To live consciously means to take every aspect of your life and try to look deeper into what is going on. In his book, Branden tries to take different aspects of life and try to explain to the reader how it is that we can live consciously. In the beginning, Branden starts off with the simple things to address and then moves his way up throughout the book to explain the more complicated things we deal with in our daily lives. What does it really mean to live consciously? We know that to live consciously really means to take control of the situation that is in front of us, to take control of our life, making a right decision that we actually think about and not a choice that one makes us go into because how is that living consciously if someone is making our choices? Most importantly, living consciously is to live a life that we want to live and not a life that we are forced into by another person. What does Nathaniel Branden want to show by living consciously and actually writing this book? For us to actually live a conscious life, we need to be aware of what is going on around us at all times and not just say that this is meant to happen or that is meant to happen to us just because that is life. That isn’t the case when it comes to this book, Branden wants to show us how to live a simpler and easier life with knowing the simple guidelines that he points out in his book. Is it easy to live consciously? I would think not. People think that if they think more about what they are doing, it means that they are starting to live a conscious life but in essence, they really are not. It does not take one day to realize that you can live this way. But what are some of the ways that we could
Professor Dietz
Psychology 11
Term Paper #1
The Art of Living Consciously
What does it mean to live consciously? To live consciously means to take every aspect of your life and try to look deeper into what is going on. In his book, Branden tries to take different aspects of life and try to explain to the reader how it is that we can live consciously. In the beginning, Branden starts off with the simple things to address and then moves his way up throughout the book to explain the more complicated things we deal with in our daily lives. What does it really mean to live consciously? We know that to live consciously really means to take control of the situation that is in front of us, to take control of our life, making a right decision that we actually think about and not a choice that one makes us go into because how is that living consciously if someone is making our choices? Most importantly, living consciously is to live a life that we want to live and not a life that we are forced into by another person. What does Nathaniel Branden want to show by living consciously and actually writing this book? For us to actually live a conscious life, we need to be aware of what is going on around us at all times and not just say that this is meant to happen or that is meant to happen to us just because that is life. That isn’t the case when it comes to this book, Branden wants to show us how to live a simpler and easier life with knowing the simple guidelines that he points out in his book. Is it easy to live consciously? I would think not. People think that if they think more about what they are doing, it means that they are starting to live a conscious life but in essence, they really are not. It does not take one day to realize that you can live this way. But what are some of the ways that we could