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1. I have thoughts but I am more than my thoughts. I can know and intuit my thoughts, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Thoughts may come and go but they do not affect my true I. I have thoughts but I am not my thoughts. |
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2. I have a body but I am more than my body. |
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3. My body may be tired or excited, sick or healthy, heavy or light, hot or cold, but that has nothing to do with my inward I. I have a body but I am not my body. |
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4. I have desires but I am more than my desires. I can know my desires and what can be known is not the true Knower. |
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5. Desires come and go, floating through my awareness like bubbles in the air, but they do not affect my inward I. I have desires but I am not my desires. |
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6. I have emotions but I am not my emotions. I can feel and sense my emotions, but what can be felt and sensed is not the true Feeler. Emotions pass through me, but they do not affect my inward I. I have emotions but I am not my emotions. |
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When you complete saying the foregoing statements aloud, begin again and this time say each statement silently. Try to feel the truth of your words. This exercise helps us experience how all our senses can be operating but we are not the "doer" of what is being done. The witness simply notices what is happening just as it is happening, without interfering, judging, or identifying with what is occurring. When developed so that we can trade from this observing witness, fear and greed can never get the upper hand. |
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