Manifestation Expert: The Key to Eliminating Pain

most of your suffering is derived from what your mind is telling you about a situation but not from the situation itself and that's an enormous realization and that can be be the beginning of an Awakening to see that the narrative in your mind is mostly what causes the suffering of it is possible of course that an external situation may cause physical discomfort obviously yes that's POS your your legs are hurting your back is hurting or to cold or to hot with physical discomfort of course that's possible but that if not suffering it it sense in which we use this term right here now the psychological suffering unhappiness is another word you could use it's a generic term for any form of negativity inside yourself unhappiness suffering when so you begin to realize that most of that arises from a mental narrative about a situation or or about your circumstances but not from the circumstances themselves and and then you can begin to practice every time you feel upset is arising some form of neg anger is arising some form of negativity uh blaming people in situations and saying this shouldn't be happening or something is not happening but it should be happening or they should do this or they shouldn't do all kinds of narratives in your mind so you Spiritual Awakening is you're beginning to be aware of what your mind is saying uh the the stor that you're telling yourself about situations but also the stories you're telling yourself about what you call your life so because people there are millions of people in this world who live with a very painful sense of identity they they perceive their life as a bird so they live with this heaviness and they don't realize what they this heaviness that they call my life is actually a narrative that they tell themselves and they say that's me all the things that have happened to me the Dreadful things in the past that people did to me or circumstances did to me or maybe even the bad things that I did so you get a very heavy identity buils up and that becomes your sense of self and people don't realize it's a it's a story you're continuously telling yourself in your mind but you're so identified with a story that you don't exist you're outside of the story so that's um that is what uh the what in in in some spiritual Traditions is called the self the Buddha called it the self which is the the mind made sense of self which the Buddha said which ultimately he recognized that that mind made sense of self is ultimately a kind of fiction that you that you live through uh so now when you realize that this is the case this means at the that at this point of realization another dimension of Consciousness has arisen in you which is not your mind we could call it awareness or we could call it presence so when you realize what your mind is doing that is not part of the conceptual mind that that works through uh stories and words and Concepts it is a deeper or you could say deeper or higher dimension of consciousness that suddenly has arisen in I often call it presence uh but another good word for it is awareness so awareness is the ability to know what your mind is doing and then the wonderful thing is at first it's just glimpses when you detach from the mind you say oh wow and then you have more moments when you're not suffering because you allow this moment to be as it is who but who are we when we detach from from our own mind ah very good question yes so at first you were identified with the the conceptual mind the story making mind and you you your sense of identity was the story of me my past my memories my beliefs my that's right all all these thoughts that are that are accumulated in my the bank of my mind from the past that I've told myself this happened to me this is what's wrong with me this is why I'm not good enough or this person did this or whatever exactly exactly and now when the awarness arises your sense of who you are your sense of identity begins to shift from being lodged in the conceptual mind the voice in the head it goes to a deeper place and you realize who you are in your essence is actually the awareness itself and that is a an amazing realization uh the in other words this is a dimension of Consciousness that is I call it Beyond thought thinking is a is a wonderful thing thinking is a very powerful tool for creating however if thinking is all we have and we look look for our identity in in the mind then that is very limiting if if thinking is used as a tool it's very powerful and empowering and can be very creative but if thinking becomes selfs serving in other words you're completely identified with this stream of thinking that never for most people never stops all through the day is they're talking to themselves there a voice in the head sometimes they talk they say I sometimes they talk to themselves and you you shouldn't have done that you're not yeah all these things so this this is the most the most important thing in a person's life uh and this is why we're here is to experience this shift in cont ious nness so that increasingly in glimpses at first but then increasingly your sense of who you are is the space of awareness the presence is that does that mean there's two of us one could say that there is on the one hand I sometimes call it on the one hand you have your form identity your form is the most the physical body which is the first thing people identify with but really it's not the physical body it's a mental image of my body may be happy about or either it can the body can be a source of Pride or it can be a source of shame or anything in between and so people identify with my body that's the first ident fall identification and the next is the psychological father of me all the things that I identify with in my past the past makes up who I think I am all the past conditioning starting in childhood the way by which the culture in which you grow up the family in which you grow up all those things be become part of your identities you have form I call it form identity on the one end and everybody obviously has one no matter how conscious you are you continue to have a physical body until you don't and you have a form ID in psychological form but the are there there is a deeper identity also that and this is spiritual awakening that is I call it Essence identity your essence and your essence is if we want to put a we use the term awareness and we use the term presence but another term we can use what that really is is consciousness the essence of who you are is consciousness the light of Consciousness itself and this is not this is something to be experienced you cannot understand conceptually what it is that I'm talking about unless you experience in this moment perhaps what the only moment there is unless you experience what that means said that you are a in essence you are Consciousness the space or the light of Consciousness between two thoughts for example sometimes uh there's a thought that comes to an end and another thought hasn't Arison yet you have a gap of 5 Seconds or 10 seconds and uh this is this is an is an experiential thing to realize yourself as Consciousness is it implies that for at first first for very re brief instances the Mind becomes still it subsides but you are still there so when you're are not let's say uh let's assume that you you let go of any memory of your past uh because you don't need it right now let you don't remember your past at all um or your name or anything uh and you're not thinking about future in fact you're not thinking it all but you're aware you're aware of your sense perceptions but you're not interpreting sense perceptions you're allowing sense perceptions to be now who or what are you when you're not telling yourself who are what you are what are you without the story and some so be afraid of that they they're so attached to the story they can't let go but it's a wonderful practice for some people they only let go when the story that they have their that they call their life becomes so painful that they can't stand it anymore and then sometimes they experience a breakthrough