| You may have often heard it said that your Spirit is | | | | physical organs can sense is considered external. So |
| “within you.” This is an absolute truth, but what | | | | going within yourself, exploring what is internal, means |
| does it mean exactly? By within you, does it mean that | | | | exploring those things about you which are unseen, |
| your Spirit is somewhere inside your body? Well, yes | | | | unheard and not sensible by means of any physical |
| and no. If the mental image which comes to mind | | | | organ. This is not to suggest that you have to subject |
| when you think of your Spirit being within you is like | | | | yourself to total sensory deprivation in order to go |
| unto that of any of your internal bodily organs such as | | | | within yourself and discover your Spirit, such a course |
| your kidneys or intestines or even your heart, then no. | | | | of action would not only be extreme, but wholly |
| From a literal sense, your Spirit is not actually | | | | unnecessary. Simply withdrawing your attention from |
| anywhere inside you materially; yet you have to go | | | | the information you are receiving through your physical |
| within yourself to find it. I know this sounds like a bad | | | | senses is all that’s required to go within yourself. |
| riddle, but unraveling this paradox is the key which | | | | Why madden yourself with the impossible task of |
| unlocks the first of many doors you’ll have to open | | | | trying to block every source of external stimulation |
| along your journey to discover your Spirit. The | | | | when you can quite simply cultivate the art of just |
| apparent contradiction of this paradox is reconciled by | | | | ignoring such stimuli? Whether you realize it or not, you |
| putting the word “within” in its proper context. | | | | are actually quite adept at doing this. Every time you |
| To go within yourself means to shut yourself off from | | | | drift off to sleep, you are going within yourself. |
| the bombardment of external stimuli. Perceiving your | | | | Still, consciously withdrawing your attention from |
| Spirit through all the “noise” which continually | | | | external stimuli while you’re in a “waking |
| beats upon your physical senses is just shy of | | | | state” takes practice, but such effort will be |
| impossible when you have only a vague idea as to | | | | rewarded countless times over. It is part of some |
| what exactly it is you’re supposed to be looking for | | | | practices of meditation. There have been multitudes of |
| in the first place – an intangible something called | | | | meditative techniques crafted over the centuries which |
| your Spirit. The evidence of Spirit is verily all around | | | | are available for you in your efforts to make use of. |
| you, but the only place it can be touch is within you. | | | | The best meditation technique is the one that’s right |
| And as a matter of course, all outward evidence of | | | | for you. Whichever meditative technique best helps |
| the Spirit’s existence will go unnoticed by your | | | | you withdraw your attention from those things |
| consciousness until such contact is made. The more | | | | happening outside yourself, is the meditative technique |
| you connect with your Spirit, the more cognizant you | | | | you should use. The natural result of withdrawing your |
| will be of its illumination centered not only within you, but | | | | attention from those things outside yourself is that your |
| in everything around you. | | | | focus turns to those things within. |
| Imagine a person who is blind, deaf and unable to smell, | | | | You can examine every corner of this Earth from |
| taste or tactilely feel anything. Such a person is locked | | | | now until eternity and you will never come across your |
| within themselves wouldn’t you say? They are not | | | | Spirit. It is only when your focus turns in on itself that a |
| locked within any particular place inside their body such | | | | whole new world opens up to you. And it is here, on |
| as their kidneys or bones. However, lacking the | | | | this internal landscape, that your journey to discover |
| capacity to interact with outside stimuli forces such a | | | | your Spirit can now begin. “Eden” is within you. It |
| person’s focus to turn in on itself and explore those | | | | was the ego which was cast out from this garden of |
| things which are generally unseen, unheard and not | | | | paradise; your Spirit never left. |
| sensed through any physical organ. That which your | | | | |