It is a common learning technique and meditative practice and can help you get to that creative part of you that can dream and imagine new realities beyond the current one. Call it soul, Spirit, your true self. It doesn’t matter. Whatever you call it, you need to develop the part of you that can notice what you are noticing.

He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was only when there were gaps in his struggle that insights came to him. He began to realize that there was a sane, awake quality within him which manifested itself only in the absence of struggle. So the practice of meditation involves “letting be.”