The Bliss of Awareness: Using your Consciousness to Free Yourself from Mental Turmoil
One simple thought can change everything.
Do you ever have those times when you go into mental overload? You may fill your day with tasks and duties to keep the mental chatter at bay.
Like most of us,
I found myself struggling with my inner workings.
One anxious thought after the next, I could not seem to find any peace within myself.
I resented meditation and anything to do with mindfulness. My sessions would end abruptly, usually with me in a rage, irritated and frustrated, wondering why I could not make the thoughts stop.
Then I learned that it was not my thoughts that were the problem, it was my inability to disconnect from them.
Why can’t we disconnect from our anxious minds?
We cannot disconnect from something we assume that we are.
What do I mean by this?
If I was to ask you who you are, the first thing you would probably tell me is your name.
Are you just a combination of meaningless letters? Of course not.
Then, who are you?
We are inclined to describe our nature as nothing but the titles we have, the roles we play, and what we think we are like.
On a subconscious level, we cannot see ourselves separate from the thoughts we think and the emotions we have concerning those thoughts.
But who are you?
The real you transcend all mind, thoughts, and feelings.
We are the seat of awareness that observes our thoughts and feelings; we are NOT the thoughts and feelings themselves.
We are the consciousness of all that goes on within our inner workings.
Because we lack awareness of our awareness, many of us cannot disconnect from the very thoughts that bombard our lives.
We cannot disconnect from something we assume that we are.
The Mind Does What It Does
We cannot stop the mind from thinking.
Our thoughts form from the collective memory of everything we believe, learn and experience.
With the mind, we perceive reality and give life meaning.
Trying to tame the mind is like trying to run underwater while being anchored to the bottom of the sea, you can try as hard as you like, but you’ll most likely drown before you get anywhere.
What if you could experience peace despite the mind? Could the awareness of who you truly hold be the key to eternal bliss?
I found it to be so.
I did this by observing who I truly was apart from my thoughts.
The Bliss of Awareness
Awareness is what you are.
When I felt myself starting to lose control of my thoughts and emotions, I brought myself back to my awareness with this one thought:
I am not my thoughts or not my emotions but the seat of consciousness that experiences these things within life.
Try it.
Meditate on this saying and see how it shifts something within you.
After reflecting on this statement, I brought my point of focus back to my thoughts, not as the one thinking them, but as the quiet observer, observing the one that thinks.
I practiced becoming emotionally detached from my thoughts.
(It is the job of your mind to think, but it is your job to observe)
As you do this, allow the energy of your thoughts to pass through you, listen unattached to the pattern of thinking that comes up, and observe the feelings that come with it.
I Became aware of my awareness; I became awareness itself.
I asked myself, who was in there listening to m y thoughts?
Who knows what I know about these feelings?
Who notices what I know?
When you do this, you will learn that you have two distinct points of awareness's within you.
One part of you is the mind, which houses thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
The other side of you is the one that hears those thoughts and observes the emotions.
The latter is your true essence.
You are not your mind; you are the seat of consciousness that experiences the mind.
So, this is true awareness:
To be one with self, not associated with the thoughts and emotions, is your true nature.
I am not my thoughts or emotions but the seat of consciousness that experiences these things within life.
You, pure consciousness at the seat of awareness, look and accepts everything as it comes.
Your Nature is True Meditation
Believe it or not, becoming aware of your awareness is the art of true meditation and the secrete to a Yogis peace.
Awareness is not a state of mind but your reality of being.
You have always been aware; you just were not aware of your awareness.
Once I allowed the truth of my divine nature to sink in, I was able to start living in a peaceful place.
Make no mistake about it,
becoming aware does not mean you go through life without trying to fix the things that need to be fixed and work out the things that need work.
When we separate ourselves from the mind, thoughts, and emotions and become aware of our pure consciousness, we stop living in fear, anxiety, and doubt.
From this level of awareness, we can make better decisions for ourselves.
We become more aligned with our intuition and better judgment.
We experience unshakeable peace.
Conscious awareness, Where Your Bliss Resides
In the silent observation of pure consciousness comes great untapped wisdom, insight, AND peace.
When you disconnect from your mind and the many thoughts and emotions within and reconnect with your true self, you find yourself in bliss and clarity.
All is not mind; all is awareness- the state of pure consciousness, which exists outside the mind.
You are a multi-layered, divine, complex being.
Your wisdom exceeds the dimensions of time, space, and matter.
The nature of your being is as powerful as all the vibrations in the earth.
You are the purest form of consciousness, resting at the seat of awareness.
Unfathomable peace.
Divine Love.
When you feel the heavy burden of thoughts and emotions creep up within your energy center, you need only to remember one thing:
I am not the thoughts but the one that notices them, silently observing life as it unfolds beautifully…
And it always will unfold, just beautifully.