Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind

Meditative practice reveals that we are most fundamentally the opening of consciousness that watches thoughts coming and going, rather than the center of thought and intention with which we normally identify.

When you wake each morning, you not only become freshly aware of your thoughts, you also resituate yourself in your body. We don’t experience the world purely in our minds, but as ‘embodied agents’, says Roy Salomon, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Haifa in Israel. Your sense of self is as connected to your limbs and guts as to the

When I open entirely to my Presence, when “I Am,” I enter a different world where neither time nor space exists. I am one, a whole. Thoughts cease and reason disappears. I feel the “I.” Feeling is the essential instrument of knowing.

Your consciousness is pretty lost, constantly focusing on this false mental concept of self. Fortunately, there is a way out—it’s called witness consciousness. If you can learn to sit back and simply watch that voice inside your head, you can free yourself.

In the moment of Awakening, while my consciousness was landing more fully in the absence of a self, another realization flashed into my consciousness. Everything and everyone is without a me, a separate and distinct self.