Meditation Technique – The Silent Observer

 

This meditation technique called The Silent Observer is specifically designed to help you get in touch with your Higher Self.

The Silent Observer meditation technique helps you detach yourself from your conscious mind and leads you into the domain of your super-consciousness.

It opens the doors of awareness and makes you see Life as it is, and not as your logical mind portrays it.

It brings you closer to your Higher Self and makes you realize that your individual life is not all there is to Life. It makes you see that you are part of a bigger scheme of events called LIFE.

It creates a subtle veil of sorts between your right brain hemisphere and your left brain hemisphere.

What does your Right brain hemisphere do

Your right brain hemisphere is the one that experiences and processes the Universal energy, which is the building block of all things physical and non-physical. It deals with all subjective thoughts. It is your mystical mind. It is the part of mind which unifies.

It has the ability to experience surreal spiritual events. It works like a parallel thought processor which integrates and synthesizes the energetic inputs of life.

What does your left brain hemisphere do

Your left brain hemisphere is a serial thought processor whose job is to analyze every outside stimuli, index it in the database of your memory and recall that information when needed. (Think of it as your own personal invisible Google).

The left brain hemisphere is the one that makes you believe that you are a separate individual, different from all the other individuals and that you have your own needs and wants. It creates distinctions about you and helps you put things in perspective from an individual and logical point of view. It deals with all the objectivity in life.

This left hemisphere of your brain keeps talking to you all the time. It is called mental chatter. It is this mental chatter which you need to control.

You have to be silent to listen to your higher self

Once you meditate and succeed in shutting down that endless noise going on inside your mind, you enter into The Silence. In that Silence you experience the transformation from being an individual to being a part of the bigger picture, the Whole.

The mind that has put its house in order, has understood the nature of knowledge. Such a mind is completely silent. And that silence has no cause.

You see, "silence" can be illusory; it can be put together by a thought that is determined to be silent. You have the silence between the two whistles of a train, the silence between two notes, between two noises, between two sounds, between two thoughts – but that kind of silence is still within the realm of cognition.

But when the mind is completely silent, it is not even aware that it is silent. If it were, it would merely be playing tricks. The mind that has put its house in order is silent.

That silence has no cause and, therefore, has no end. Only that which has a cause can end. That silence – which has no ending – is absolutely necessary, because it is only in that silence that there is no movement of thought.

It is only in that silence that that which is sacred, that which is nameless, and that which is not measurable by thought, is. And that which is, is the most sacred. That is meditation.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti on Silence and Meditation

Therefore it is important to create this silence inside your mind to experience real meditation. The silent observer meditation technique mutes the mental noise so you can hear and respond to the signals of your Higher Self.

Here are some prerequisites of meditation, which you must follow before attempting any sort of meditation.

the silent observer meditation technique

Calm yourself down and find your center. Take a few deep breaths and focus your mental attention on your body.

Starting from your feet start relaxing your muscles consciously. Imagine that all the tension in your muscles is leaving and in its place is entering a relaxed luminous pleasant energy.

From your feet move to your legs, thighs, abdomen, chest, arms, back (spinal area), shoulders, neck, face and then your head. Pay special attention to your neck and shoulder area as that is where most of tension resides physically.

Once you are totally relaxed physically mentally detach yourself from your body and in your minds eye see yourself sitting in this meditation pose from a corner of the room away from your physical body.

Get out of yourself and start observing yourself. See how you are sitting, how you are breathing, how you are meditating.

Once you are able to detach yourself from your physical body mentally go over the events of the day one by one. Starting from the moment you woke up till the time you started this meditation.

Mentally see yourself as if in a movie, doing all that you did during that day. Watch yourself from a third person perspective, saying the things you said, meeting the people you met, interacting with them, talking to them, commuting from your home to your office.

Go into the details of your movements and actions and words. But do not judge yourself. If you did or said something wrong so be it and if you did something good let it just be. No judgments.

Remember you are just observing yourself. You are not you anymore. You are just your consciousness watching yourself from a distance.

This creates a certain emotional detachment between you and your actions and amazing insights come to you as you are doing this mediation.

Doing this silent observer meditation technique consistently will enable to mentally detach yourself from any stressful event, even when you are engrossed in that event.

You will be “doing”, but you will also be watching yourself perform those routines that you are performing and still their emotional influence will not be able to reach your emotional core. That is simply not possible when you are not detached.

The Higher Self speaks to you when you are silent and listening. It longs to reach out to you and guide you but it is always you who do not let it help you.

Let your Higher Self reach out to you. Be Still. Listen!

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