Practicing Awareness

Practicing Awareness

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Placing awareness on our emotions can strengthen our intuition or the voice of the divinity within us. This is covered in a later chapter.








A friend asked me what the experience of awareness is like. No one can describe the experience of awareness or consciousness because it is beyond the mind. The mind is made up of thoughts and memories. Consciousness is not our thoughts and memories and therefore, the mind does not know it. Awareness exists only in the gap between our thoughts; in the space of no-mind.

We can only experience awareness in a relative sense, that is, when there is an object to be aware of. The object may be external (for example, the television, a flower etc) or internal (our thoughts, feelings, emotions, mental pictures, breath etc).

The awareness of an average person will be focused on external things. The internal objects are completely ignored. For example, if we are asked to describe an exciting movie we just watched, we can describe the movie in minute detail. But if asked, which parts of your body were tense during this or that scene and what were your emotions and how long did the emotions last etc? We will not be able to answer such questions because we were not aware of them.

That is why most people seek happiness outside themselves and not inside. How can one find happiness within oneself when one doesn’t look inside? Meditation helps to turn our awareness inwards. I read that eventually, our awareness becomes so subtle that even the internal objects falls away and when there is no object to be conscious of, even consciousness slips away. The meditator then enjoys Samadhi.

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  1. Tim
    Apr 08, 2012 @ 20:35:42



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