Discovering True Awareness: A Path to Ego Freedom and Spiritual Enlightenment
Is ego death or spiritual enlightenment possible within a couple minutes?
Yes, I believe at least the beginning of the path. Then it’s up to us to walk it.
I’m going to show you the difference between your ego and your true self. And after that, you simply have to remember to view everything from the perspective of your true self and your whole life will become guided to your true purpose.
Okay, so your precious breath. You’re breathing it now. Notice it. As you’re watching your breath gently shift focus to become aware of the you who is observing the breath. It’s kind of like imagining you can hover above yourself and watch yourself. That’s awareness of awareness. Witness consciousness.
This awareness of the observer rather than what is being observed, points to your true self. Notice this inner witness is constant and unaffected by the breath’s rhythm, even as you keep breathing. This second layer of awareness can help highlight the presence of your deeper observing self.
If that didn’t quite click, here’s one more.
Picture your mind as the sky. Thoughts, emotions and sensations are like the clouds moving across the sky. Usually we identify with the clouds, our thoughts and feelings. However, we can shift our focus so that our awareness is like the sky itself, unchanging, vast, and simply holding everything that arises.
Recognizing the sky quality of your mind can help you connect to pure awareness.
But let’s take it a step further.
Now you’re holding a snow globe that contains the sky and all the clouds and emotions. Your true self, your eternal spirit, is holding the snow globe, but even better, going on in that snow globe is actually a movie that you are the writer, actor and director of.And it’s all going down whether you are aware of it or not. You are co creating the universe with our divine source.
How does this play into real life?
Picture a mom in the kitchen cooking food and interacting with all the people. But suddenly she becomes aware of the entire scene and gets filled with gratitude for all the food and all the people in her life and sees it from a grand perspective. The storyline that led up to that moment.
That is moving to witness awareness, that is connecting with her spirit.
And so when the ego and spirit can work together and the ego can learn to serve the intuition instead of trying to master it, that’s when we become guided and that’s when we become living our best life.
As it’s usually the ego mind that gets caught up in the desires and trivialities and fears and doubts, you can now escape that instantly by simply becoming aware of the ego and its ways. Send it a smile. It’s magical. And actually spiritual, but also scientific. As consciousness is the newest frontier of science.
So become scientifically spiritual. Free yourself from your ego’s dominion. Simple awareness of awareness.
Witness consciousness, your newest superpower.
For me when I go into that awareness of awareness mode, I instantly feel healing energy entering my body, my thoughts dissipate and relax, and my intuition opens.
If this helps, thank me in a kind thought or prayer, because that surely helps.
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