LIFE AS CONSCIOUSNESS

The spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle says that a good way to experience the Now, the present moment, where life really happens, is to simply feel the energy in one's body, to simply focus on the flow of energy from head to toe.  This energy is what a person truly is in this moment. 

This feeling of energy is life itself which in Vedanta is the Brahman.  But if life is the Brahman, then life is also consciousness, for the Brahman is consciousness.  This, however, is not the everyday consciousness of the everyday mind, but the witnessing consciousness behind it all, where life watches itself be life.