Hello my friends I'm the Park Chopra this is daily breath.

Our new series is called Total Meditation.

Awareness is always present,

but if you aren't, then the power of awareness winds up hiding in plain sight,

obscured by the isolated ego personality. So let's talk a little bit about how we harness hidden powers which exist in awareness. Here are some pointers.

In awareness there's unlimited knowledge. In awareness there's unlimited knowledge.

In awareness there are infinite possibilities.

And an unbreakable connection to pure consciousness.

Our thoughts, however, reflect limited knowledge, a handful of possibilities

and a faulty connection to pure consciousness. So there's a mismatch when we rely on the ego

which is bound up with thought. It keeps us anchored to the things we hear in our head and it keeps our personal story going.

This voice in our head or your head or my head conspires with the ego to give you a sense of identity.

For example, I'm a white collar professional, I'm a single mother, I'm a father, I am a teacher, I am a son. Obviously I'm

confusing myself with the roles I play. The roles I play are my ego

identity. But ego is unreliable. It's just a pack of selective

memories, impressions, likes and dislikes. Ego's social conditioning, beliefs and denial.

Nothing that thought produces is a substitute for being aware.

Awareness, by the way, is the source of thought. The identity you have wrapped around yourself

includes much that is false, much that is damaging and much that is

secondhand. Mostly it is self-judgments embedded in your story

originating in your past. These embedded self-judgments need to be cleared

away. Therefore there is a need to

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