How Can We Begin Walking the Path of Consciousness?

As a therapist, many of my clients ask me the question, “how do I get conscious?” Consciousness, for them, seems an esoteric “thing,” bestowed on “those people,” aka, the lucky, the yogic, and the few. It is often misunderstood as being something separate from “ordinary consciousness,” conjuring images of monks who abscond the material life for isolated caves in the Himalayas.