06/07/2025
Return to the Self: A Mooji-Inspired Guided Reflection for Anxiety:
Sit comfortably. Breathe naturally. Allow yourself to simply *be here* for a few moments.
Now, gently bring your attention inward.
Notice that thoughts are arising.
Some of them are anxious, irrational, fearful.
But ask yourself gently:
“Who is aware of these thoughts?”
Don’t answer with your mind. Just notice.
You are aware *of* the thoughts.
So you cannot be the thoughts.
They are like waves on the ocean.
You are the ocean.
Let the waves come. Let them go.
You do not need to push them away.
You do not need to chase them.
Just **stay as the awareness** in which they appear.
Notice: the anxious thoughts are noisy… but *you*, the awareness, are silent.
They are agitated… but *you*, the witness, are still.
They come and go… but *you*, the Self, remain.
Say softly to yourself:
“I am not this thought. I am the one who sees it.”
“I am the sky. These are just passing clouds.”
“I am already free. Nothing can bind me.”
Let these words not just be thoughts—let them be a returning.
Return to the peace that was never gone.
Return to the stillness that holds even the storm.
Let your attention rest—not in the story, but in the silence from where all stories come.
Breathe here. Rest here. Be here.
You are not broken. You are not lost.
You are the unchanging, unshaken Self.
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"These thoughts you speak of—they are not you. They arise in you, they pass through you, but they are not your essence. You are the one who is aware of them. The mind may create a storm, but you are the sky in which the storm happens.
You say they are never-ending, but even to say that, you must be here, present, witnessing it. That witnessing itself is untouched. That is your true place.
Don’t try to fight the thoughts. Don’t try to fix them. Just be aware of them, like clouds drifting in the vast sky of your being. Let them come, let them go. Remain as the awareness in which they appear.
Say inwardly, ‘I am not this thought. I am not this fear. I am the one who sees it.’
If you do this, gently, not as a doing but as a returning to your natural state, you will begin to taste the peace that is already here—underneath all of it. That peace is not created; it is revealed.
You are not broken. You are not these anxious thoughts. You are the timeless presence—untouched, unbound, untroubled.”
Returning to the awareness of the Self—the silent witness beyond thought—is the most direct, most natural, and most lasting way to rediscover peace.
It’s not about fixing the mind. It’s about realizing you are not the mind.
When you stop identifying with the noise and rest as the stillness that witnesses it all, a profound peace emerges—not because the world or thoughts are quiet, but because you’ve remembered what is untouched by all of it.
It’s not an escape. It’s a homecoming.
And in that homecoming, even the storm is welcomed… because it can no longer shake who you truly are.
If more people could taste this truth, even for a moment, the whole world would begin to heal.