the secret to expanding your consciousness lies in changing your brainwave patterns enough that new ones emerge, allowing you to experience something other than your normal waking awareness. It’s my personal theory that when the mind ceases its normal activity, non-standard communication channels can open up to allow for your waking awareness to

you are another version of me who started with your physiology and then piled on the life experiences you’ve had to make you who and what your mind thinks you are. I said, “who your mind thinks you are,” because, as we’ve discussed, who your mind thinks you are isn’t really who you are. Your mind’s sense of {self} is the only thing that

Rupert Spira once said, “Consciousness is that in which all experience appears, with which all experience is known, and of which all experience is made.”

The greatest benefit I’ve experienced by understanding my own mind is that I now have the ability to select which instances of mental processing I allow to occur, versus which instances I allow my mind to flush right out of the system before they can cause any discomfort. Please note this isn’t a suppression of bad feelings or negative emotions

“He broke up with me,” becomes “He broke up with THE me.” “I don’t like what she said about [x],” becomes, “The I doesn’t like what she said about [x].” In the second version, you can just about drop your reaction to whatever happened because it’s almost like it happened to another person who isn’t you. In reality, that is absolutely the case. You

Any time you use the word “me” or “I”, put the word “the” in front of it. So “me” becomes “the me”, and “I” becomes “the I”. Statements like “that comment made me angry”, become “that comment made THE me angry”. Yes, it sounds weird, but that’s part of its magic. The intentional error in grammar helps bring attention to the practice. The result is

When you change your perspective from, “I am my mind,” to “I have a mind”, that’s a rest-of-your-life game changer. Similarly, when you can shift from “I am my emotions,” to “I have emotions,” that improves your control over your mind dramatically. It fits your consciousness into the big picture where it can be seen as something that experiences

You must be watching your mind from somewhere else that is not your mind. Thus, you are not your mind.

The emotion in the study participants’ brains turned itself down as a result of the thinking brain putting an understanding to the emotion. They called this the “name-it tame-it” effect.