Practice 7

Inner Observer - Part Two: Intuition Training

Congratulations on making it to Practice 7!

As you deepen into your practice of Meditative Absorption, you learn the power of your focus’ capability of creating your conviction of what is real. You are convinced reality is one way, then you slow time down and realize you could be convinced it’s something else altogether. You are shown how much you create what it is you perceive—a projection constructed by your inner beliefs and deep conditioning. Not a change in physical form, but in the essence that lies within form and your interpretation of the meaning of that essence.

Through presence you find unconditioned reality. Pure direct experience.

And through presence you can discover the second feature of the inner observer: that it can tell the difference between the objects in your inner space at any given moment. Particularly, the objects of your ego structure and your soul-self (higher self). This is very important to experience because perceiving and transcending the ego is a journey that can be undertaken by the inner observer alone.

This observational skill is enormously helpful because the inner observer (the witness) can tell the difference between your current ego-identification and reality as it actually is from the point of view of the witness—which is deep undefended receptivity, without the wrappings of identity according to your personality type. If you can perceive what aspect of your personality your ego has you identifying with (appearing intelligent, beautiful, or cultured, in control, etc.), you can choose to love yourself out of the need to project yourself that way and come back to your authentic power (soul-self identification).

The inner observer has a feature you’ve already experienced: that becoming it puts your body into a stress-free zone. Mastering this feature alone is quite useful because it allows the body to heal and allows psychological disturbance to relax. It can create a space where you can, at least, get a little rest and recuperation from the suffering engendered from the defended nature of our ego-protective type structure. It can suffuse your inner space with the well-being of the life force, which thrives in your neutrality (non-reactivity).

When you have this sense of well-being inside of yourself—where healing occurs and the recognition that all suffering can be of the past—your whole system starts to tune up and realize that now is forever. Now is the beginning of the next, and now is where I can be free, and if I can be free here, my next can be even more free.

The inner observer is only available in the present moment. Healing has to begin here, now. It has to begin inside of you, where you feel the energy of well-being running through and where you feel suffused by a quality of pure being that says “this is the way I’d like to live the rest of my life, contented, thank you!” This energy of pure being heals your ego suffering. When you ego is healed and no longer operates through you from a sense of lack, it is deactivated—it no longer feels insecure and stops seeking security from the outside world. Consider this befriending your ego-self because now it obeys (is friendly with) your higher-self and can be activated anytime an emergent circumstance requires it.

This exploration of the second feature of inner observer is that it can also recognize the difference between your ego-structure and the well-being that you naturally fall into when your ego-structure recedes. Do you see the possibilities in this?

Just in your witnessing your growth away from ego-reactivity, you’re coming closer to reality as it actually is—which is filled with good things and complete in every moment. You witness you are life itself and your life situation is perfectly as it should be. Centered, on-path, and secure.

The inner observer can recognize when you lose this state and start to go on automatic thinking. It can recognize when you start to get into an emotional rhythm and you begin tearing yourself up inside as a result of this past-conditioned emotion, which is deeply engrooved neurologically in your very real brain. In automatic thinking, your ego tries to convince you, “this is who I am, this is my identity, this is serious…” but the truth is that you have an opportunity to be without ego-identification altogether. Free, with one shift of attention. One shift of attention, that can bring you into reality as it actually is. A shift away from ego-identification and into your soul-self, the witness, the conscious field of energy that is who you truly are.

Through meditative practice you eventually gain the ability to relax into identification with the inner observer outside of meditative practice. You can recognize when you start to go into automatic mode and you gain the choice of letting go of your ego’s compulsion to have you identify with your personality and you become centered in your receptivity when interacting with others. Relaxed, receptive awareness.

You become cooperative with moving into a receptive state of awareness where, you’re not identified with your ego, meeting another ego, seeing each other through your filters of conditioned reality. When instead you can drop inside when faced with reactivity and be the one of the two in a conversation that says, “wait, wait. I need to recenter. I need to come into myself to know what I’m really feeling here. I need to get away from this and my reactions to you, just for a minute, by reconnecting inside. I need to know where I am with myself.”

Then, you are empowered to admit to yourself something like, “Oops, I was thinking that I knew what you were going to do. I was projecting. If I could just stay quiet inside myself in this relationship, I would recognize not only what my thoughts were about you, that they might be biased, but also that I’m in a contracted state in here because I’m agitated, I’m unquiet, I’m not peaceful inside, and I’m not feeling well-being at all. I’m feeling under stress.” This act of respecting your boundaries is what maintaining full-time presence requires of you.

Through inner observer meditative practice, you can relax your stress and stop the projection process. You can stop the stories you tell yourself about what’s going on around you. You can release the power your stories have over you altogether.

You are utilizing your ability to intervene in your own mechanical way of being in the world. You find the pause button. You find the shut off valve, and it’s an inside job (doesn’t require controlling others at all). And inside, when you relax, the inner observer will come to your assistance and you ‘let go and let God.’

Once you have learned to relax into your inner observer and recognize the difference between a projection and authentic divine guidance (letting God), your intuition can become a powerful tool to navigate life’s questions. This meditative practice navigates you through beginning the process of distinguishing projection from authentic intuitive guidance—building your communication with your higher collective self.