Self-Reflection

What has worked for me is self knowledge, working on self knowledge, working on self observation, and cultivating the skills of witnessing. Part of what happens when we develop skills of observation is that we realize that things we associate with self or I are not really connected all that much. What I mean is that subject object consciousness is, the observer can witness, but the eye cannot see the eye seeing. What you are witnessing cannot be you, because you are the witness. If that is true in the external world, perhaps it is true in the internal world. When I begin to witness thoughts, feelings, and sensations, I am witnessing what is rising. Historically, in the unobserved state, I would associate that with me, with self. In the state of witnessing, realizing that if I am observing it, if I am witnessing it, it really cannot be me. It is not that it is not arising, but I do not have to attach my self sense to it. Developing skills of observation, where what is arising does not have to be identified with as self, we can realize that it is there, but also realize that something is witnessing that. Developing that skill alone will probably change other things. There is a saying that I have found to be true, your level of being attracts your life. Developing those skills of observation and non identification changes perceptions of self, of others, and of the mystery itself. When those perceptions change, our level of being changes with that. As the level of being changes, the life that we are drawing in also changes, and it increases at an increasing rate.