As I became the observer, I began to sense that I was much greater than my emotions or thoughts.

Things that used to bother me, no longer did. I became "detached" from the thoughts and emotions that for years, left me with anything but inner peace. I don't ignore them, hoping they go away. It's much bigger than that.

I still allow myself to completely feel any emotion, whether it be anger, hurt, worry, etc. The difference now is that I can observe them from a spiritual place.

As I watch from this place "outside" my body, the emotion is felt and then begins to dissipate as I realize that the emotion is not me. It's just something I'm experiencing. I don't allow my mind to place such a great importance on this event as I used to.

All of a sudden, I feel inner peace. I feel still inside.

This spiritual emergence can happen for you! As you become the observer, you'll find that you'll experience moments of no thoughts whatsoever. In the East, this is often called "no-mind".

In these moments of "no-mind", you become completely aware in the moment. You are fully present in the current moment. You aren't worrying about the past or future. It's a deeply gratifying place to be in where you're filled with inner peace and thoughts of abundance.

In the beginning, these moments will be extremely brief. But I urge you to keep at it. Over time, these moments will last longer.

As you experience spiritual emergence while being the observer of your mind, it's important not to judge. Just allow yourself to "see" the thought or "feel" the emotion without judgement. It is what it is.

Here's a way this has helped me in a practical sense. I used to be absolutely driven by ideas and thoughts about working toward my goals.

I was a work-a-holic. I would pile up "eight million" things I had to do and it all had to be done today. Talk about anxiety! And I was doing it to myself.

By observing these thoughts and detaching myself from them, I began to see this as a problem that was not me anymore. Yes, my body was feeling this anxiety feeling, but it was separate from me, my "higher" self.

As I watched without judgement, my anxiety began to go away. I could sense how trivial it all was in comparison to this new "eternal" spiritual emergence of myself I was discovering.

Do I still have these thoughts that cause this anxiety? Of course. But now I know that I'm not the thought or emotion, I'm "watching" it. As I detach from it, it goes away more quickly each time.

Quieting your mind and becoming the observer is the first step to real freedom. It's a spiritual emergence from being a slave to your mind to beginning to know the spiritual part of you.

Spiritual emergence is true freedom because no matter what happens to you, you can deal with it in a healthy way. You are no longer the thought or emotion going through your mind. You no longer look at yourself as the problem.

That's liberating!

I read two quotes in the book, "Total Freedom", a collection of J. Krishnamurti's works that I feel apply to spiritual emergence:

Spiritual emergence is available to you. My own spiritual emergence doesn't matter, though. You need to see yourself as you are in order to make your journey toward spiritual enlightenment, inner peace and abundance.

Change your life,

Matt