Transcending Ego Consciousness: Going Beyond the Veil of Your Personal Mythology

3/8/2011

Consciousness and awareness are the basis and power tools of a creative and expansive life.

Waking consciousness continually stirs up reactions, impressions, and interpretations that form themselves into a personal narrative, ego consciousness. This ego consciousness weaves a story that plays on loop within you about everything that has happened to you, that is happening to you right now, and that will be happening to you in the future.

The journey and the destination of your being is created and upheld all within the mental narrative that forms moment after moment. It is this personal narrative, this personal mythology with its own quality of energy that veils the vast limitless field of possibilities that you are right now immersed in. If there is a narrative active within your being right now, if there is a sense of a "me" with a history and a destination, recognize that this autobiographical narrative is veiling fields upon fields of infinite potentialities from your awareness.

Accessing different possibilities, accessing different outcomes in any arena of your waking experience is dramatically enhanced and supported by your ability to go beyond this in-the-moment narrative. This ongoing generation and regeneration of a narrative of any kind about yourself, your relationships, your world, can be transcended. It is a pattern of thinking and feeling that can be seen through. Awareness can penetrate this mist of energy, this whirling spin of thought and feeling and reveal that this narrative you have active or keep activated can dissolve into Stillness, into spaciousness, into nothingness in an instant.

How easily can you drop the story of you right now? Just for a moment? How deeply can you let go of all that you think you are and all that you think is happening or has happened in this moment? What emerges in awareness when there is a total cessation of the story you've been telling, cycling, perpetuating?

❝The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities."❞- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

To access the vast field of consciousness that allows for immediate change, you have to move out of the excited state of thinking that is forming a narrative about who you are and what is happening in your reality. The moment you drop down into or expand out into this state of least excitation that you at times translate as Stillness or peacefulness, you give yourself the window to enter a different dimension of experience in every area of your life.

For as long as you maintain and sustain your personal mythology, the accumulated thought content that has woven itself into an involved story, you keep yourself in an activated and excited state of consciousness. This only further develops and mobilizes the dimension of experience, the energy, your personal story is reflective of.

The most useful shifts in your experience emerge from your ability to be radically transparent – from your ability to enter and reside in the state of No-Thing where all notions of self, all notions of personal experience, all notions of events and circumstances are instantly dissolved. You enter an impersonal state of being that is open, vast, and limitless. You enter an all-access point to total change that ripples out through all the octaves of your multidimensional being.

This is the state that supports the most profound and deepest transformations of your experience. If that's what you choose. In letting go of what you think is happening in your reality, in simply dropping all ideas of what's happening to you right now, you open yourself up to entertain, welcome, and become aware of other possibilities. You have to unclasp your hand and drop what you have been holding to grab hold of something new. In the same way, you have to let go of all the notions you are currently keeping active within yourself so that you can create space and allow something different to emerge. That ability and capacity is always within you at all times.

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