How do I do it, you may ask? It may seem a bit odd when you think of it, but why does man never study himself, personally? I mean the individual. We are taught by society what society deems important, but it never tells us what to do to simply feel good. Don't you want to just feel good?

Man has developed a world of amazing technological advances. Communicate anywhere over the internet instantly, fly across the world in a few hours, take pictures of mars surface, etc.

Yet the individual today lies more than he ever has. Why? Because the individual makes no effort to study the operations of his own mind, his own thoughts. He does not know what he is thinking when he is thinking it. Men study everything but themselves. Who's going to teach you about yourself if you don't do it? Can anybody but you do it for yourself? No, of course not. Its like learning to ride a bike, you can get help in a certain way, but in the end only you can do it. However, it also requires that you want to.

You must know what your brain is doing to you in order to free yourself from it. You must become an expert at the "study of thought itself." Why does thought daydream? Why do we lack and so need to aquire? Why does our mind chatter all day long, never shuts up? Why do we have mental arguments with other people, our thoughts creating an image of ourself and the other person in our head and then making them argue? Why do we fear what other people think? Can a person hit you with their thoughts?

Nobody hurts you but yourself.

The following is a list of things you can do to increase your ability to study yourself. Try to do one or two for a day then do another the next day. You will find, if your honest, that you can't do them. That's good though. See, your learning already.

• Books like "The Power of Your Supermind" and "The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power" by Vernon Howard. "The Awakening of Intelligence" and "The Ending of Time" by J. Krishnamurti. The large book stores carry titles by both the authors. So does Amazon.com

• The thereis excercise. Go through the day noticing your reactions and then say to yourself "thereis anger", "thereis fear", "thereis anxiety" etc. This puts a separation between the emotion and you, allowing you to observe it objectively. You must not try to change anything. Do nothing more than say "thereis jealousy" and the move on. Don't try to fix it, just see it.

• The three second pause before speaking. Before saying anything or responding to anybody's questions, wait three seconds. Do this for a day. You will see that you can't, but if you can that's all the better. Do it for the whole conversation with another, not just at the start. This makes you aware of what your saying, and thinking, before you say it.

• Know where your hands are. Stay aware of them as much as you can all day long. Notice if a glass is hot or cold when you pick it up. Notice how they move when you talk about something. When you rest your hands on something, what does the surface feel like. Watch how your thoughts try to prevent you from doing this.

• Break thought, make yourself aware in the moment. Don't daydream. Mental movies take us all day long, like vultures. I wonder how many accidents of all types occur in the world every day because people are not where their bodies are, but are off in some daydream. Break every mental movie you can and bring yourself back to the moment.

• Walk across the room excercise. Walk across the room, letting your mind think or go anywhere it wants to. Let it roam free, but make sure your watching it when it does. Next, walk back across the room, but this time become aware of yourself. Notice the movement of your legs, the sounds around you, feel your hands move, anything to keep your mind where your body is. Your thoughts will come in and try to take you away, but unlike the first part of your walk, don't let them. Do this several times each day and you will begin to feel different after a while.

• Use the word NO more often. People don't have a right to your energy, but they will try to make you feel guilty if you deny them what they want. There are, of course, times when you must be responsible, but these are less than you think. There are things you really don't want to do and are not meant to, but do it because you don't want to hurt people's DPF's.(Darling precious feelings) Say NO. It's ok. Truth says so.

• More to follow.....

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