O SERIES - What Observing is Like - Early Steps

2010-07-23 2nd Journal, Mayan day 6 Flint ♥ TRANSCRIPT: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34812148 ♥ iTunes podcast http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=371766765 ♥ Blip.tv channel http://theresaaharvey.blip.tv/ Intro: I’ve noticed, yet again, the tendency to be online too much. It is simply amazing, how insidious this is. I don’t know what’s acting, but I don’t care. I’ve been shown enough to know it is damaging to overdo this... so I’m watching that. I’ve moved just a bit from simply observing to sometimes taking action. It doesn’t really work, though. The best way is by working with observing and intention - just these. We observe, not trying to change things - we watch in silence and just learn, for a while. At first the challenge is just to quit ragging yourself for what you see. The challenge is not to interfere, not to stop or influence the doing - just to watch it. That’s the first challenge, or it was for me. During this period you won’t get any or much perceptible guidance. You’re still too full of yourself. Your mind isn’t quiet enough, yet. You’re still too identified with it. Then, after a while of constantly reminding the self just to observe - not to interfere in any way - then you find your observer self willing to let your outer self just do whatever she was doing; think whatever she was thinking - like that. You’ve taken a big step in observing here - non-interference. Good job! So, you spend some time like that - just watching. Finally, you are able to just watch. It feels kinda good, really*. Not so much, though, because what you’re watching is not necessarily showing you the best side of yourself. This is stuff you wouldn’t let yourself see, much less do, before - not without internal fighting, that is. Now, you just watch. As you are able to do this - to not edit yourself in any way - to just be still, as the watcher - your inner voice begins to speak... Distributed by Tubemogul.