Find the felt sense-Being

Practicing inner body awareness by keeping your attention in the body and observing sensations, emotions and thoughts, will help you get to know the processes that are taking place within you. Being alert to these processes, you will come to know the extent that they come up and affect you at mostly an unconscious level. Knowing these things about yourself is the first step to understanding some important truths about yourself.

What you may not have already noticed is that you are becoming aware of these processes, you are observing them. Because you can observe these things in yourself, you must not be these things entirely. They can only be a part of you, a part of who you really are at a deeper level. Because you are observing these things in yourself you are not these things and you do not have to react to every thought, emotion or sensation. By observing you can stand at a distance and notice these processes take place in you without reacting, blaming yourself or others for them. You simply need to be aware of them as they take place in you.

Because you can observe these processes in yourself, suggests that you are not the creator of these processes-a very big revelation indeed. Think about this-if you can observe the processes as they come up in you, then you are not the creator of those processes. Then where do they come from? They come out of consciousness, arise in your awareness, and slip away back into consciousness-just like everything else eventually does. These things are form and they come up within you and play against the background of consciousness much like a movie plays against the background of the movie screen.

Knowing these things through practice will take you to the realization that there must be something else that I am. Sense that I Am and you will come to know yourself at a much deeper level.

A spiritual practice for today and for many days to come is to move your attention within the body and continue to observe the processes taking place within you. Do this until you notice a deeper felt sense-a feeling of that background to which these processes are cast upon. When you get that sense of background awareness-move your attention to this and keep it there for as long as you can. With strong determination, keep your alert awareness fixed on this felt sense (can be felt as a sense of energy or a feeling of deep peace in the background). Do this whenever possible and as much as possible as this will take you closer to any part of the Self you will ever experience.

Peace to you today