Introspective Awareness

To be introspectively aware means to examine carefully ones motivations without seeking a desired result. Result always presupposes purpose or goal. To understand fully the workings of your own mind you must observe as an entity that is removed from the one who is seeking a result.  It requires total attention to minds movement from the external to the internal.  This attention would be free of all attachment to the self that is motivated by any emotional disturbance.  A person must be completely in the moment just quietly observing ones consciousness as it creates emotions and opinions about the moment. One watches as the mind moves through the highs and lows of the challenges it faces.  All this is done without the least bit of judgement or concern.  We observe as the mind grabs hold of and lets go of all that complicates a given situation.

Removing the self from the activity of self,  a person finds clarity and a depth of understanding.  One may realize and understand the sickness of ones own duality and how that it controls the physical and mental health of all of us.  It may be possible to understand that there can be action without motivation. And that such action will always be to the benefit of the "other".  A persons selfish and acquisitive mind ceases to be the motivation for ones existence. Life is simply lived for the joy and peace that is the actual reality of the moment regardless of ones perceived circumstance.

Then when all around you seem to be lost in the confusion of emotional responsiveness one will be totally aware of a movement that is not seeking and therefore without the motivation of the duality of the one who seeks and what is sought.  To be introspectively aware brings to one a sense of psychological maturity that transcends the minds tendency to be reactionary and self serving. It is the flowering of an intelligence that is whole and complete within its self.