When you wake up, it’s like someone else is looking through your eyes at you. This is the silent observer. If you have not yet met the silent observer, allow me to introduce you. First, read this sentence to yourself (not out loud)… “Hello there.” Now, who said that? You might say that you said it to yourself. But your lips did not move and your vocal chords did not make a sound. But you said it. And you heard it. You said it without a voice and you heard it without needing ears. And if you wanted to, you could imagine and relive your past or imagine your future and see it. You did that. So there is the you that is this body and there is the you that speaks and listens and sees without needing this body at all. This you is the combination of the mind and the silent observer. The mind thinks and expresses and imagines and feels. The silent observer observes from deep inside. Can you feel the difference? If you quiet the mind, can you feel something present inside you? Something quiet but very present that observes and experiences this life like a video game player within an avatar? You might call it your soul. It is tempting to call it your true being but here you are on this earth in this life, in this body with this mind and these energies and this silent observer and all of it together is what it is to be a human being.
You are a physical being, a mind-being, an energy being and a silent being, all at the same time. The best results come when we acknowledge and find connection to each of these. The silent observer is arguably the hardest to connect to because it is, well, silent. The cacophony of everyday life is so loud that we often don’t connect with this inner being. To connect with the silent observer, first simply quiet your mind enough to feel the silent observer within you. Feel how you are not your body, but you are in your body and you observe your body and you operate your body. Next, Feel how you have a mind. Watch the thoughts and feelings go by like clouds in the sky, but see that you are not your mind; you observe your mind and you operate your mind. If you can feel your energies, see that you are not your energies, but you have energies and you observe your energies and you operate your energies. So who are you? You are what is left. The essence of you is the silent observer that is here in this life, operating this body, this mind and these energies. Perhaps the silent observer is made of energy too (because it does not seem to be made of physical matter).
Connecting to that true self in this way opens up a perspective that you can use to take control of your mind, body and energies and use them like an avatar, to create whatever life you want. Spend some time with this silent observer – your true self beyond this life.
