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  • We may at first have thought consciousness was in the mind, or even thought it was the mind itself. That it was somehow part of our domain; our personal interface with life or our go-to source of thinking and reason.

    Exploring the mind however, we discover it is not consciousness that is personal, but the mind. We discover the mind is limited and finite and that we can go beyond it — to consciousness itself. Even as a new explorer, we are aware of something here vast and whole, an infinite peace, potent and complete. And we know — as if remembering — that this is also the intrinsic, intimate truth of ourselves.

​Welcome!

This is a blog for those who travel an inner path, seeking truth, beauty and the source of being.

Here are ideas and practices to help and encourage the traveler, and to address the obstacles that we, as students of consciousness, inevitably encounter. Everything you find here you can do at anytime and take as far as you want.
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​I invite you to use Paradigm Practice as a foundation for your practice, which you may find here, free and available for your use. Paradigm Practice is a powerful guide for bridging the gap between limitation and new awareness.

Awakening into the happiness and peace of your true nature benefits all the world.
May you be blessed on your journey!
Ann
Consciousness is the ultimate teacher:  it is always sh​owing us what we are.​​​

Every step on the inner path, however seemingly small,
is a benefit to all of life and advances the whole of consciousness.



Practices for Everyday Enlightening

11/2/2019

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Ann K Gryczan
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​# 1 Don’t Explain
 
Have you ever noticed how the ego/mind is constantly explaining, justifying, countering imagined arguments and defending its actions? It is always talking to itself, and often, it talks out loud to everyone else too.

So the practice is: Don’t Explain. Sometimes it is important to explain, of course, and sometimes you’re asked. So the practice, Don’t Explain, is about all the other times.

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In this practice, for example, you might say, “No, thank you.”

but leave out,

“When it comes to fats, I only eat coconut oil because it has long-chain….(and so on).”

Or, “I’ll walk and see you there!”

and leave out,

“I don’t believe in driving if I can just walk because this way it is more healthful and it helps the environment!”

Or, shift your energy and leave out,

“I worked all night on this project, so I’m just not up to speed today.”

See?

Even if you don’t normally explain outwardly, you might start to notice how inwardly, the ego/mind is always justifying its position, confirming its place, patting its pockets – making sure it still exists, basically.

When you notice this, stop and take a breather. Now notice what happens. You might feel free and boundless when you let go of explanations and reasons. You might feel vulnerable.

But The Ego Will Keep On

​Then the ego/mind will start right back up again; it needs to constantly create certainty – a sense of “being.” The ego is not really being anything, but rather, it is cultivating the idea of itself and what it calls reality. So in this practice we are catching it in the process of making itself up.

When we catch it, we stop the process and this gives us a chance to come back to ourselves.

We might though, notice a little fear or a lot: that we are misunderstood, that we have done something wrong, lost our place or don’t matter.

But now notice what is just underneath that – the relief of not having to have an excuse, a reason, a defense. Let go into the peacefulness that just is. We can always be that because we are it.

Don’t Explain

That is the practice: notice the urge to explain, let it go, notice what happens, be the peace you are.  


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2 Comments
Phil goodman
11/3/2019 02:31:36 pm

Thx Ann

All u send is helpful for my personal growth moving forward.

U r one very Intelligent woman!

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Ann
11/3/2019 06:11:19 pm

My pleasure, Phil! I'm so glad the posts are helpful to you.

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    The ego/mind is based in the ideas of identity and duality, and committed to its survival over all else. To ensure this, the ego/mind uses any means necessary to get what it desires and avoid what it fears. Over eons, the ego/mind and the survival instinct evolved in the manner it fulfilled this purpose, developing increasingly sophisticated and complex capabilities: it learned to conceptualize, manipulate, imagine, deceive, convince, invent and so on. All of this bundled together with emotion (another evolutionary development), created what most of us now experience as our identity — as myself.”



    A paradigm is the framework of belief, perception and emotion through which we experience and understand ourselves and all of life. It is the filter through which we perceive, the lens through which we see. Like water to a fish, it is our unquestioned sense of reality. The paradigm both creates the appearance of reality and confirms to us that what we call reality is as we believe it to be. Normally, we are oblivious to what makes up this paradigm — the framework of what we call reality.”



    Consciousness is often thought of as being located in or created by the brain; its origin purely chemical or physical, and its function that of creator, recorder and experiencer of our interface with life. Consciousness seems like our individual and distinct sense of reality, but what we are actually experiencing that seems so unique to ourselves, is the ego/mind.

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