12. Being the Multidimensional Witness Self-Reflection

One of the most important ingredients to gaining competency in conscious personal mastery is the ability to witness yourself. What exactly does this mean?

 

To witness yourself means to impartially consciously observe what and how you are sensing, feeling, thinking, behaving and perceiving. You are able to abstain from judgment and any attachment to your observations. This is particularly challenging when trying to witness the shadow parts of you. However, being able to objectively observe yourself within your shadow is a critical element to optimizing your health, resonance and self-mastery.

To fully witness yourself helps you to perceive your current reality. This includes all dimensions of you, your body, heart, mind and soul. 

  • Physically witnessing yourself involves using all your senses to notice where you feel comfortable and relaxed as well as any areas of tension, restriction or pain. It also includes knowing exactly where you are in space relative to everything around you. This requires integrating all the information from your sensory receptors within your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, fascia, muscles, joints and ligaments to determine your level of alignment, relaxation, physical mobility, balance and overall level of groundedness. 
  • When you witness your heart nature you are in tune with the rise and fall of your emotions. This can be very difficult for many of us as our culture generally teaches us that it is not acceptable to feel negative emotions such as anger, rage or even hatred. It is also quite painful to allow ourselves to feel such intense emotions, particularly shame, which is essentially a state of self-loathing. Therefore, we typically repress and shove these emotions down and into our bodies where they then have the potential to create all sorts of havoc on our health and wellbeing. 
  • Objective observation of your mind involves awareness of not only your conscious thoughts but what is just below the surface within the subconscious and even unconscious domains. It includes the underlying beliefs you have about yourself and the world around you. It encompasses the narratives and stories you tell yourself and how these drive your choices and decisions. For many, there is much work to be done within this self awareness process. 
  • To witness your soul essence is to truly see your level of connection to the source energy of unconditional love and using it to fuel your intuition. You can see how your perception of yourself and the world around you is shaped by your ability to access this unlimited resource of unconditional love and acceptance. This dimension appreciates all the unique gifts and love you bring to the world in addition to you also being the world. You are able to perceive that all is one. 

 

Reflect on the prompts below for ~10-30 minutes daily for the next 2+ weeks. *Unless otherwise directed.

  • In the recommended order list below, focus on one category at a time, everyday for ~10-30 minutes. Perform this for 3-6 days for each category or more to continue to deepen your self witnessing skills. Once you have established a solid awareness of your patterns in a category, proceed to the next.
  • To get the most out of the witness experience is to set the intention to refrain from any type of positive or negative judgment and be neutral in your observation. Be open and curious about what you may discover! It’s an exploration of You!
  • Perform this self-reflection again in about 6 weeks to assess your progress and to gather any new information to continue to support you and your greatest good.
  • Optionally, use your testing technique to determine your optimal frequency and duration to use this reflection technique.