You are not what you think.

You are beyond the contents of the mind.

The mind produces thoughts. 

You experience these thoughts as a voice in your head, often accompanied by visuals, like little motion pictures of the mind. 

Take a moment and become aware of your thoughts right now. 

The mind generates thoughts. You are not those thoughts. 

You can’t be those thoughts, because you are aware of those thoughts. 

And surely you cannot be something you are aware of. 

For once you are aware, there is separation. There is a subject and an object. The object is your thoughts. The subject is you. 

So who are you? You are the awareness.

You are the witness. The witness of everything in your life experience.

You are not the mind, you witness the mind’s activity.

You are the ever present awareness underneath.

You are always that awareness, but sometimes you forget. 

You forget because you become absorbed in the content of the mind. 

You become entangled in thought. 

You swim in the stream of thought, which so often flows against the current of life. 

And when you’re entangled in thought, it seems as though you are one with thought. It seems as though you are thought.

But you are not. Thought exists and you are aware that it exists. 

The moment you reconnect with this awareness, there is separation. 

Separation between who you think you are and who you really are. 

In that separation, there is space. And in that space, there is stillness.

And in that stillness, there is peace. 

This is all the byproduct of connecting with Source. 

Imagine swimming out of the stream of thought, standing on the shore, and watching it go by. You are no longer the stream. You are witnessing the stream. 

You are no longer thought. You are witnessing thought. 

The more you become aware of thought and occupy the seat of the witness within, the more you will experience the space, stillness, and peace of your consciousness. 

And then you will Know who you really are. 

Then you will Know who you are beyond thought.

And then you will be free of your conditioning. That is to say, you will be free of your past.

For your thoughts are programmed, conditioned by your past. 

They arise automatically and incessantly with the intention of protecting you. 

They want to protect you because the brain prioritizes survival above all else.

But you are so far beyond the need for protection. 

And in striving to survive, you forget how to live.