25 Jul

Sit In Silence With The Self.

Posted by kjnelan in Self, Thoughts | Tags :, , |

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Just for this moment, just for this one brief period of time, sit alone with yourself and allow for the perception of craziness by talking to yourself.  Yes I know that is a vision often reserved for those individuals who have been pushing their lives down the streets in little steel caged buggies often called shopping carts, but allow yourself this one indulgence.  Believe you me, they who talk to themselves openly are the lucky ones.  They have not a care in the world and are free to “be” as they please and often without limitations imposed by society.

Let us take a few moment from our busy lives to examine a form of private meditation which allows an individual to come to a greater awareness of themselves through open communication with all parts of individual identity.  I have found great comfort in silence and often sit with myself in personal examination and discovery.  It is through this sitting in silence with the self that we grow beyond our current limitations.

To begin, just relax, focus on your own breathing, and from time to time  silently ask yourself this question: “Who is aware?” In the silence of the response, you will begin to feel your own consciousness rise up from the very core of your being. Instead of asking “Who is aware,” you can instead repeat your own name silently to yourself over and over, trying to determine what your name really means.  Of course what ends up happening is not so much discovering what your “name” means, but what you mean to yourself.

By observing yourself observing yourself, you enter an infinite progression or mental loop, until there is no difference between you the observer, and you the person doing the observation, or between you and your own consciousness.  That intimate core awareness is a big part of your true identity, your true self.

Out of the intense focusing of your own being on yourself, something wondrous begins to unfold; your individuality begins to fade away and you begin to realize the vastness to which you are eternally connected.

Through this type of meditation, you will begin to realize that the loss of the ego-dominated personality is not an extinction of the self, but is instead the only true purity of life and just the beginning of a wondrous and awesome exploration of all that exists.

Sit in silence with yourself and being your own discovery of being-ness.

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