I AM ... exercise!

by **Sarveswara** Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:50 am

Quoted from Echart Tolle's book 'A New Earth'

"The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks." When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. And it is that awareness that says 'I AM'. IF there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are think. You would be like a dreamer who doesn’t now he is dreaming. You would be as identified with every thought as the dreamer is with every image in the dream. Many people still live that that, like sleepwalkers, trapped in old dysfunctional mind-sets that continuously re-create the same nightmarish reality. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream. Another dimension of consciousness has come in.

After reading this passage from Eckhart Tolle's book, give it some deep concentration, and in the awareness that you derive from it put your focus on the 'I AM' for as long as you can.

Do this as often as you can, from this moment forward; make yourself aware that the thinking is happening, and realise it is the ‘I AM’ that is witnessing the thoughts. This way you are separating yourself from the thought form, into the I AM formlessness state of being hat you are.