Awakening without Mastery has no Value

Many people who have encountered my work have been seekers for many years. For them, and all others, Witness Thought Transformation brings about a dramatic Awakening within a short period of time. This brings with it a freedom from ego, defensive patterns, and an understanding of life at a new level of awareness.

Then something very sinister begins to happen. The ego mind sets about to co-opt the entire process. What this means is that the old patterns start making their way back into one’s life, and before you know it – your back into the same misery you were in before your Awakening.

Awakening comes as such a huge shift and with such a complete knowing that it is easy for us to think that we’ve got it and no more growth work is necessary. As a result, the new experience of being awake gets gradually integrated into the ego defenses that where already there.

Let me give you a for instance. If you have passive defenses like getting away, avoidance, and isolation, your new found Awakening may eventually be subsumed into activities like retreats, long periods of meditation, or silent weekends.

If you have active defenses like being angry or hostile you may begin to use your new awakened state to judge and condemn those who are still not awake.

I see this all the time in the emails and phone calls I get. Those who learn Witness Thought Transformation are transformed alright, but they often stop right there thinking they have made it. Their messages to me contain all kinds of energy around their unresolved issues.

The road to Mastery requires you to stop with each and every emotional reaction and relentlessly ask the right questions until you get to the bottom of it. Once you get to the bottom of it, go to the next reaction and do it all over again. That’s Mastery.

There is good news about all of this however. Each of us only is enslaved by about 2 or 3 patterns. So the road to Mastery, while being a lifelong commitment, is not a complicated task. Once you have mastered the couple of patterns that are constantly trying to hijack you, it merely becomes a matter of vigilance. The even better news is that vigilance becomes second nature after a while.

I am currently starting a coaching program to help people master their patterns. If this is of interest to you, contact me and we can talk about it. In the mean time, every time you react, every time you send an email or pick up the phone, ask yourself this question, “Where is this really coming from?”