The Power to Navigate Life by Tony Fahkry

Author:Tony Fahkry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heart Space Publications

The Observer

You might recall in the previous chapter I asked you to observe or witness your thoughts as they relate to limiting beliefs. We discussed the idea that you undertake this process when you close your eyes and use your imagination. We used the example of being in a restaurant and have a plate of food before you and observe the scenery unfolding in front of you.

Observing your emotions is much the same as observing your thoughts, yet you use a different sensory awareness which requires training. When observing a thought, you are listening to words being played out in your mind in the sound of your own voice. As stated earlier, this is a language that you become efficient in the more you practice it.

Observing an emotion is a little more complex than listening to your thoughts. Since emotions are feeling based, you will now be required to understand and become aware of how your emotions feel. Let us take a detailed look into how you improve tuning in to your emotions. Remember that becoming the observer of the emotions benefits you insofar as you are using consciousness in order to draw awareness to the emotion.

Awareness is continually present in your life, it is just that we add a narrative to the awareness in order to understand what we are seeing. An example of this might be taking your dog for a walk in the park and observing the other dog owners. Your consciousness observes the different breeds of dogs as well as the owners. It tunes into the sound of dogs when they bark and the way they interact with their owners. However, if your mind intervenes by adding a narrative to the observation, recalling information that you have previously observed at some point in your life.

Your mind is a database of events and experiences that it calls upon in order to predict what it sees in the present moment or what it anticipates might unfold in a future occurrence. By observing your emotions you are unlearning and silencing much of that internal dialogue that has served you for much of your life. I am not suggesting that the process is easy, nor that you will be able to turn off the incessant internal chatter, but rather that you will become better acquainted with your ability to observe via consciousness.

Once you have asked yourself how am I doing? you will be guided toward either a series of thoughts or feelings. Do not label or judge whatever surfaces, instead, notice whether it is a strong impulse framed as either a thought or an emotion. If it is a thought, use the technique explained in the previous chapter by observing the dialogue. Do not become invested in the thought by creating a conversation around it. Doing so will give more energy to it and that is what we wish to avoid.

Observing emotions is a slightly different process in that it is feelings orientated. Many people have a difficult time being aware of the somatic responses that their bodies given them.

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