Essence of Mind Freedom – Mind Freedom (Part 3 of 8 )

Mind Freedom The essence of mind is consciousness. The freedom of mind is attention and intention. The responsibility of mind is choice.

Witness Consciousness: The Power of Self-Awareness

Retraining your mind to become once again your servant rather than your master requires you to develop self-awareness. Whether positive or negative, your mind approaches life in its own particular and unique way. You might be the only person in the whole world who does what you do exactly the way you do it. If you pay careful attention and attempt to be an objective observer, your “witness consciousness” or “observer consciousness” can identify exactly how your mind operates. Being aware of what you do inside your head enables you to name it. Then, “the truth shall set you free” because naming empowers you. When you name what you are doing, you gain emotional distance from it and so can choose to stop or to continue. This is freedom.

Witness consciousness =
self-awareness.

Because of the speed, complexity, and fragmentation of the world, you cannot pay attention to the vast overload of information. You must choose what you’ll focus on. Making choices is the foundation of all Four Freedoms. In Mind Freedom there are two levels of choice:

1. WHAT you think about—your attention

2. HOW you think about what you think about—your intention

An axiom of Mind Freedom is that you get more of what you pay attention to. A little understood corollary is that attention equals choice. In other words, you are choosing to have more of the subject matter of your attention.

Attention = Choice

Use your witness consciousness to become aware of WHAT and HOW you are thinking from moment to moment. You can choose to pay attention to what you want, rather than what you don’t want. An enlightened human being pays attention to, or thinks about, only what he does want. This is one meaning of higher consciousness. Although it is impossible to prevent all negative thoughts from entering your mind, you can always choose whether to pay attention to them or to let them go. Furthermore, if you choose to think about something, you can think about it in a positive way.  By doing so, you own both your attention and intention, and your mind remains a faithful servant. It taps into all its resources and presents you with opportunities to actually make your ideas happen. Then, of course, you must act to support your thoughts. By taking action, you give your servant (your mind) a reward and a powerful encouragement to continue serving you well.

Keys to Mind Freedom
Witness Consciousness – Self-awareness
Attention – What
Intention – How

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007

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