3 Seconds to Being Your Higher Self by Arielle Hecht

Author:Arielle Hecht [Hecht, Arielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

Witness

“As a tethered bird flies this way and that, and comes to rest at last on its own perch - so the mind, tired of wandering about…settles down in the Self.”

-Chandogya Upanishad

Becoming the Witness is taking the mind/ego and setting it on its perch to rest - as the consciousness you are becomes aware of being the Witness.

It’s not that you become the Witness - you already are the Witness. You simply identify with being the Witness.

You move your attention away from a wandering mind/opinionated ego and become a detached witness of your experience.

This does not mean that the mind ceases to wander, but that your attention is as the witness - no attachment, no agendas.

The heart rests and flourishes with simplicity. When we become the witness, we become simple.

As all great mystics have said, it is attachment that leads to suffering.

Give up attachment and suffering falls away like a distant dream.

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Let’s practice this right now.

Take a deep breath.

Expand out and bring your mind to be the bird on the perch, witnessing.

Detach - let any strings falls away.

And Rest.

Take another deep breath.

Rest in the stillness

The Beauty of the Present Moment.

See your mind rest on its perch, and simply witness and experience.

…

Can you feel it?

Simply keep practicing.

Think…

Witness.

As if it is a command to the mind - Witness.

Feel yourself literally ‘expand out.’

And Detach.

Witness.

Find the space beneath the thoughts…

“Q: “But what about the classical spiritual teaching of ‘the space between two thoughts’?”

A: It is a misunderstanding, for there is no detectable space ‘between’ two thoughts through which one can glimpse the Infinite. The supposed ‘space’ is not between the thoughts but prior to the thoughts.

“Perception moves at the same rate as does mentalization; therefore, to expect that perception will discern a space between two thoughts is impossible because perception would have to then move faster than 1/10,000th of a second, that is, the perceptive faculty of the mind moves at the same rate as the content of the mind. Thus, to try to witness the space between two thoughts is like a dog trying to chase its own tail. This is why many serious and committed meditators do not reach Enlightenment, even after many years of devoted meditation. They are simply looking in the wrong place.”

—David Hawkins, “Discovery of the Presence of God”

Neutrality

Neutrality is the nature of the Witness; the Self.

Neutrality is a blissful place to be and allows for a pure, uninhibited flow of consciousness.

We can also think of this as ‘equanimity’; meaning ‘balanced soul.’

Neutrality is like a river that flows seamlessly down the bank - no rocks in the way - just pure flow.

Our ego is the biggest enemy of neutrality - as the ego is always seeking self-interest, opinions and judgments.

And these become the obstacles on our path. The rocks inhibiting the river’s pure flow.

But, when we remove self-interest, and become the Witness, then what is the function of the ego?

The ego will sit there ‘dormant’; perched on its own tree.

The ego’s desires cease to exist.

And we rest - we fly free as the Self; the Witness.

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