Welcome. This meditation supports the Stage Eight task of connecting to the Silent Observer. In this task, you are challenged to recognize your inner being and connect with this higher self. The hardest part of this task is to feel this higher self within you, because it is, well… silent. This meditation will support you in connecting to and feeling that higher self.
Posture
Take a moment to get comfortable. You can sit or stand or lay down. It’s doesn’t matter. You can close your eyes or keep them open. Some prefer to keep their eyes open for this meditation. Try it several ways and see what works best for you.
Presence
Take a slow deep breath. Let it out like a sigh of relief. Be at peace. You are here now. Take another slow deep breath, and this time, send it out slowly, consciously, with purpose, all the way. Be at peace. You are here now. Pause and repeat these breaths until you feel relaxed and at peace.
Journey
Let’s begin. When you wake up, it’s like someone else is looking through your eyes at you. This is the silent observer.
Say to yourself now, “In being, I am.” 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.
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.
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.
Return
When you are ready, bring your awareness back to your surroundings. Notice how you feel. 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. When you are ready, try living life AS this silent observer and see what happens then.
