Observe the Self

As the silent observer, you watch the body that is active or inactive.  As you observe thoughts and behaviour, moment-to-moment, the Self gradually reveals the Source of everything. How does awareness of this serve you?

As you come to see beyond the personal, you grow aware of the nature of Soul, the essence of Spirit, silence, and emptiness and also how the ego-mind constructs the identity of Self. As you look deep within, you come to see beyond self-created identity. Be willing to observe.  Open the senses.  Notice action and inaction speak. Witness everything. Feel self-knowing constantly transforms.

Awareness is not what you think

You may have the impression awareness grows over a period of perceived time.  To sense awareness is a changeless reality is to know change is an illusion created by ego mind that itself focuses on the external world.  Notice how ego grounds you in certain belief systems where it is controls you with fear. If consciousness only grows more subtle and refined, how does this effect what you feel and accept?

Watch the gatekeeper

Now is the moment to remember what it feels like to be increasingly present and aware. How often do you play games with the mind to explore its capabilities? Notice the insight you are gaining as you do so. Every moment, you decide what to let into the mind and what to keep out.  Thought and perception of past and future distract you from remembering who you are right now.  Consider how you act as a gatekeeper. 

Reason like a mystic

Many people question the nature of transformation, or wonder how to speed it up or slow it down.  You may reflect on what is unfolding during your own process. What traits or qualities capture your attention?

You may hear people inquire how to levitate or perform other earthly miracles while in the physical body.  Consider ego desire for fame and power. How does this shape the experience of divine grace?

In truth, nobody skips levels of awareness. Deeper remembering arises in tandem with awareness. Its not what you have but how you use it.  In silence, you notice and feel more. Universal laws reveal themselves beyond words. Core compassion guides selfless acts. As the unenlightened observer awakens to how truth transcends the physical world, he frees self from ego and illusion and opens to love without limits. 

The notion that mystical experiences can be grasped and controlled by the mind overlooks how one is invited to use events that defy reason to break through the barriers of reason itself.  In essence, a physical you does not exist to learn to perform miracles, but to disprove the belief of a need.  To awaken to the limitless being you are, is to align with soul, open fully to inner power, and know being is already a miracle.

Detach from the doer

Training the mind to settle down requires patience and diligence. During this process, you may find that inner contentment is unstable. Why is that? Could it be that the doer within is still wanting something?

In many cases, the mind interferes.  It exists to control.  And yet, the watcher within knows mind can relinquish all control and even disappear. There is no need to question or do anything. Allow the mind to do what it pleases. Remember how it feels not to respond.  Simply notice emotions. To be fully aware of the dream is to accept all control is beyond reach, to watch fear dissolve and surrender to what remains. Degrees of transformation unfold in living experience.  One emerges in a state of heightened awareness.