A heightened state of awareness is an
expanded state of awareness where we go
beyond the conditioning of our mind and
access insight, intuition, creativity
choice of vision, of possibilities. But
most importantly we harness the power of
intention and attention to create
whatever we want. To create our personal
reality and ultimately even influence
our collective reality.
The ego is our conditioned mind, so our fundamental self is infinite possibilities.
When our fundamental self, which is formless
infinite being, when it attaches itself
and identifies itself to a select band
of human experience then we create a
self image. That self image is the
ego mind. I like to say that the ego is
our selfie as body mind. Not our true
self.
There are several techniques that one
can use but they're all in a way
connected to meditation and all in a way
connected to the experience of
self-awareness. So there's awareness of
perceptual experience if you put your
attention to sound without interpreting
it, or to sensation without interpreting it
or to taste or smell or even a
thought. You're beginning the practice
but then there's also contemplative self
inquiry which means asking yourself
Who am I, what do I want, what is my purpose,
what am I grateful for. There's also what
we call transcendence which uses mantra
practice to go beyond thought. So when we
experience mantra practice or primordial
sound meditation practice, which we teach
at the Chopra Center, then thought and
mantra compete with each other and
frequently cancel each other out, and
that's when there's no thought and no
mantra. You're in the gap between
thoughts and that gap is the field of
infinite possibilities, the field of
infinite correlation or synchronicity
the field of creativity, the source of
intention, and also it's unpredictable
because unpredictability and creativity
go together.
