Hello my friends welcome back to daily breath. I'm De Park Chopra.

Our new series is called Total Meditation. In any

given situation you're going to react either consciously or

unconsciously. So being awake is simply

to consciously choose experience

and being asleep is being a biological robot, that's the difference. Any experience you have involves your mind and your mind

expresses your state of awareness.

Simplified, when you act unconsciously, you're asleep. Simplified again, when you act consciously, you're awake.

No one is fully asleep or awake, but we can lay out the differences pretty clearly.

Here are a few examples of being asleep or being unconscious. You act out of habit. You obey sudden impulses. You speak without thinking. You rely on fixed beliefs and opinions. Here are some examples of being awake or being conscious. You think before you speak. You weigh your options before making a decision.

You collect facts. You listen to what other people have to say.

You feel your emotions but don't always act on them.

You are open to revising a plan when the situation changes.

You don't jump to conclusions.

Everyone can be shown how to move into a state of greater awareness.

Childhood development depends on a stable parent whose actions aren't childish.

This is very important, otherwise we recycle the ego identity of our parents.

Good enough parents pass along a mixture of good and bad lessons as they can only act from the level

of their awareness. Therefore it is important to question even the lessons that we were taught by our parents.

Total meditation will bring you from asleep to awake but this awakening doesn't happen by addressing

every item on the list of unconscious behaviors one by one. A sleep and awake are completely different states of awareness, states of being, states of consciousness,

and the challenge to exchange one for the other is simply a shift in our state of being. You're going to.

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