| Just as you have a reservoir of physical energy, you have a stock of psychic energy. It is in the form of attention. It would not wrong to say that your psychic energy is Attention. I talked about the center of your life in the beginning of this article, so what consumes most of your attention, where do you spend most of your psychic energy? If most of your attention is consumed by the world, people and things you would be left with very less energy to explore the inner world. To raise your awareness of the inner world and eventually change your life, the first and most important step you can take is to shift the center of life from the outer world to inner world.
It does not mean that you are asked to withdraw from daily life activities and sit into a meditative posture. In fact the contrary is the case. You are asked to get interested into each of your activity, your actions, reactions, your prejudices, your beliefs and so on your entire inner realm.
Just as you watch a program on tv with great interest, watch everything that is going on inside you with keen interest. You will be amazed to make new discoveries about yourself in very few days. You will know why you do what you do. You will know what is the real motivation behind your particular action. It will be a true exploration, an inner exploration. However, sometimes you will come across monsters also, they have been living inside you for years, but as you switch on the light of awareness and go within, they cannot hide.
But the most important thing to remember about the inner exploration is that you are asked to explore what is there, not question what is there. If you fall into the trap of judging what is there, you will end up fighting yourself and eventually into a breakdown. So no judging, no questions, just exploration. When you withdraw your attention from outside world and instead focus it into your inner realm, you are raising your awareness, you are seeing the internal machinery of your psyche, you may not understand it but you can still see it in action.
Your awareness acts like the sunlight cutting through the fog. You don’t have to fight the fog within, when sunlight fall on it, the fog dissolves, in much a similar way many patterns that are causing you trouble will dissolve when you become aware of them its like the nightmare that goes into nothingness when you wake up. And when that happens, every moment is Good Morning! |
