Know Your Name: Going Deep Inside Your Inner Mystic

“Each night, this magnificent world so vivid in the daylight of our consciousness, is swallowed in the mouth of sleep. Yet, we have no fear of this, for, secretly we know, we are beyond.” - Mooji

Physical experience has trained you to focus on outer conditions, people, and circumstances, often leaving you in a state of waiting to see these things change and move in the ways that you wish them to move. This is like looking at a developed photograph and waiting for the people or objects in the picture to change while you intently and constrainedly stare at the already developed photograph. You may stare all you want. You may throw a tantrum at how unfair this developed picture is. You may have a fit over what has materialized before you. You may get stressed out, worried, and step into all varieties of resistant thought-streams. And after all that, when you go back and look at the developed picture, absolutely nothing has changed. And nothing will change. The picture is already developed. The situation or circumstance has already materialized.

All your effort at trying to move and change the conditions or people around you is wasted effort. An effort that often leaves you feeling unbalanced and insecure. An effort that often reinforces the undercurrent of victim consciousness, the “why is this happening to me” thought-stream outward-focus imprints on your outlook. And it will never be otherwise. Any out-ward focus, any attention that puts all the power on the conditions and people outside of you is never going to allow you to feel or stand in the power of your own extraordinary nature.

Total empowerment begins when you re-train yourself into doing all your work in the creative state, the field where all things are formed; that point before the picture is taken and developed; that point before the energy of the universe has gathered and materialized into the known of what you perceive. It is in this invisible universe that all variations of potentiality await your attention.

This place of the unknown within you, your inner sphere, is what every mystic, sage, or other tries to direct you toward, tries to point you to. Outer conditions and the relationships that materialize in your reality are all by-products of your own inner states of being – these exte
al conditions you find yourself in are only after-effects of your own dominant inner states; your own dominant vibratory frequency, the essence you constantly send outward.

The outer world is secondary. Outer conditions from your bank account statement, to the conversation you had with someone, are only flickering, momentary materializations coming into view only to indicate to you what your dominant energetic broadcast looks and feels like. Everything you experience and live is the essence of your own inner condition. The more you connect and become aware of this inner universe, this inner realm of thought streams, energy patterns, emotional response, and intuitive recognition, the more all the power of your innate nature returns to you.

When you make it your dominant intention to work within the sphere of your True Being, when you begin to withdraw your attention from manifested outcomes and focus on, and engage with, the knowledge and energy you're constantly generating within you, you'll be in the place to be able to develop pictures you won't want to change.

Release the tendency to worry about manifested or materialized reality. Release the tendency to focus on materialized events with constrained effort. Release the tendency to flow your energy and attention into the very things you'd like dissolved. The reality you right now perceive is a passing flicker, a momentary indicator – release the focusing of thought on what's going on "out there" --- what's going on within you in this moment? Who are you? Who do you know yourself to be? What do you know this Universe and life to be?

What would your reality look like in the certainty of knowing that you are powerful? Unlimited? Pure potential? All Love? Infinite energy? Infinite intelligence? What would your reality look like in the certainty of knowing who, the saints, sages, teachers and mystics of the ages have told you, you are?

Solidify that knowing. Crystallize that knowing. Flow energy into that knowing. Let that knowing be your dominant focus. Everything that comes will be a by-product or after-effect of THAT knowing.

“It's as if a king has sent you into a far and distant land with one specific task to accomplish. You could accomplish 100 other things, and if you failed to accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent in the end, it will be as if you have accomplished nothing.” - Rumi

When you have steadied yourself in the knowledge of who you really are, which is the only specific task that alters your entire experience, all other accomplishments will pale in comparison to the reward of that very knowledge.

Practical Tip

Allow yourself to predominately give attention to your inner reality. Allow yourself to recognize all manifestation as temporary, fleeting, and transient. Allow yourself to break-free of the thought-streams of outward focus. See through the passing conditions around you. There is no end to the depth of your inner world. Allow yourself to cultivate this inner-oriented focus.

Begin and end each day with the intention of connecting and deepening your awareness. Each day bring yourself to ask: Who am I? What is this world? Allow your mind to still into these questions.

Your power to awaken to your Self and to the nature of this experience is a moment-to-moment choice. Cultivate that power.

*Article first appeared in the July issue of Intrinsic Focus monthly newsletter: http://www.infinite-life.com/newsletter.html