Friday, November 14, 2008

The Detached Observer






Sit in a quiet place and take a few deep breaths and become relaxed. Bring to mind a situation in which you reacted with anger, fear or withdrawal, but pretend it wasn't you who was reacting. Pretend it was someone else. This helps you detach. Then observe how this other person experienced the situation. Just watch without judging. Just allow what was, that you are now experiencing through memory, to be as it is.
Apply this process of witnessing as often as you remember to do so to different experiences as they happen. First practice moving your awareness outside of your physical body. Then you can advance to detaching from emotions and then from thoughts and concepts. Only as you detach from reactions, illusions, vanities and effects can you really see the truth and reality of your life. Only then can you truly experience freedom, power, love and the divine. Only as you see events for what they are, can you go beyond them.

This exercise comes from Higher Awareness.


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