NEW HABITS

Personal enlightenment renders you consciously aware of the greater "you" existing behind the you of the Ego-mind. It is making you realize, that you are neither your thoughts, nor emotions nor your body, but the one experiencing these different levels of awareness. It lightens up your mind and changes its mode of functioning by bringing in a second stream of consciousness, one which is not identified with the thinking "I".

However, while this new state of consciousness is still new to you quite probably a little effort is required on your part to maintain it. Consciousness forever exists in the here-now making each moment of life is new, so to uphold your state of personal conscious awareness requires your continuous attention from each moment to the next. Until you have taught your mind to habitually stay attuned to your higher level of consciousness, the one of the unattached observer, instead of habitually switching back to the the "I"-identification. Once having achieved to centre your consciousness upon the higher level, you are free to use the "I"-mode of thinking at will and just as easily switch back again to its higher state.