The Way to Freedom

Here is an exercise to do. Do it often and whenever you need it. You can use this for the rest of your life. Go inside your body with your inner eye. Think of it like a laser. Start from the top of your head and go down to your feet. Notice every little thing you can. This noticing will do something completely different for you. It will draw you INSIDE, past the chattering mind and the ego and the scars that hold you in a place you don't want to be. But it will happen naturally. So go inside. Starting at the top of your head on the front of you. Notice what you notice. Sensations. For example. Your head, maybe you feel an itch near your eye, you feel a buzzzing inside your forehead, maybe your cheek feels cool, warm. maybe you feel the saliva inside your mouth. do this the whole way down your body. You will get "stuck" at certain place and realize you have been thinking about groceries, or crabbing, or what you will do later, for a few minutes and then realize, Oh, I have gotten off what I was doing. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. DON'T SCOLD. DONT LECTURE. Simply come back to observing. Do this for as long or as little as you like. When you notice a sensation that feels good, try not to try and "hold" it or focus on a sensation that feels "bad." Just notice. This is the whole idea. By noticing, you are going deep inside. This is where all suffering begins and ends. And by focusing on sensations with observation, ignoring commentary, you learn to be more non-reactive. You don't '''try" and learn, you will learn as a result. I take it everywhere with me. You don't have to be sitting with crossed legs, in a yoga class, or a cave. You can be anywhere and everywhere for this to "work." When you tune in to your sensations, you can see "the weather inside." When you feel thoughts coming up, disruptive, aggravating, anxiety inducing, see if you can "watch" them as though you are watching a movie. Without making them good or bad. The way you would watch stormy weather outside. This is the beginning of freeing yourself from the worrying of thought. There is no end to it and that does not matter. It stops when it stops. But this is always there for you, for your move toward freedom.