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Being Conscious Research Paper

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To be conscious is to be aware of everything around you. For instance, sitting in school, you begin to notice certain aspects of your surroundings. Your table mate reminds you that our Lit Circle paper is due today, someone slammed a door down the hallway, and so on. But being conscious isn’t just noticing your surroundings. Being conscious also means you form thoughts and create responses to your environment. After your table mate reminds you about the paper being due, you begin to panic and realize you haven’t worked on it at all this week; after hearing the door slam, you begin to wonder who it was. We are able to alter our conscious state through hypnosis, meditation, and chemical interventions. Through hypnosis, a person can “lose” the
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