How to Separate the Voice in Your Head from the Real You | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

so I started reading it first part one is about awakening consciousness which we've talked a lot about on The Oprah Show and did a 10 part series with Eckhart Tolle on the web back in 2008 and what I realized is that there are many paths in to understand this way of consciousness and you talked about in the very first chapter the voice in your head and you described it in such great terms I started reading I didn't put the book down you know luckily I had you know enough time on that particular day and I've now shared it with I can't tell you how many people and couldn't wait to be able to share it with everybody else that's exciting yeah so what is the voice inside our head there's something we listen to on a regular basis the problem is we think it's us so for example you look at avaaz and it says godlike that's a very interesting shape but I don't really like the color that much it reminds my grandmother's vaaz and all of a sudden we have somebody narrating and talking inside her head that is not that's not you yeah right those are all your thoughts about the vaz and more and more as I watch that I realize it never shuts up that it talks about everything it judges everything it thinks about everything right right in the early 70s Michael singer was a young economic student studying for his doctorate sitting with a friend one day he noticed a lull in their conversation and in that quiet little lull moment he became aware of the thoughts that were running through his head he realized that that voice that incessant voice that expresses worries and doubts and anxieties was not really him but he was the observer of the voice that inner dialogue was an expression of his psyche not his soul and that was the beginning of his awakening and that was my path that was it being like that so what happened actually in that moment now that you can describe I know Eckhart Tolle has said that that is the awareness the voice the awareness of the thoughts or the awareness of the voice inside your head is where consciousness resides and that is who we really are so that's what you came to yes that was the that was your open door to the path to understanding yourself as a spiritual being inside a physical human body with a mind and isn't this the most important thing ever forget the period period bar nine not is the most of our to the spiritual yes is to understand that you are a spiritual being and the way to understand that you are a spiritual being is to know that you are not all those gods that's the key right because that so far we can't say what you are because that's a thought right right that's just you know you're not the thought why cuz I'm watching it yes you are they're watching these thoughts and sometimes people say to me but which of those are me none of them are you you were the ones watching okay so I got this I've shared this overview I've heard it before when I was in India I got it really clearly I mean I'd understood it through a car that understood through Transcendental Meditation I really got it I was in India earlier this year and there was a yogi who was leading me in meditation and it was just the two of us and he had me he said you know close your eyes and now I'm going to name different objects and one was a red triangle and one was the moon and when was a you know white picket fence or whatever all these objects and he said you know hold onto the object in your mind and then when I named the next object let it go what I realized in that conscious moment was that that's what's happening all the time red triangles and picket fences and chairs and thoughts about everything are coming in and you can let those thoughts I'm not good enough I lost my job I can't believe he left me I can't believe my kids do that their thoughts their thoughts they are not you they're not you so how do we begin to separate ourselves from the thoughts that's the question right and that's that's the key what I love that you said is that really is the beginning spirituality that is to separate what you're not from what you are if you don't do that right you're gonna stay lost the self is spiritual the one who's watching is the gateway to spirituality so if you continue to just get involved in the mind in the thoughts in the mind this true spiritual path doesn't take place

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Length: 4min 43sec (283 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 05 2012