The content of one's mind is primarily dependent upon conditionings and patternings, which are imprinted onto the system at an early age. Regardless of whether the thought patterns that develop and continuously play like a record are positive or negative, they feel familiar to the experiencer. This sense of familiarity can bring with it a distorted sense of comfort and security. In order to transcend identification with the mind one must have the willingness to leave behind this familiarity and surrender into the unknown. 
 With the recognition that there is an aware witness always present, which can observe thoughts without being identified with their content, a sense of freedom arises. This freedom is the discovery of the True self; that which is always here, unmoving, unchanging and unaffected by any thought or experience. Its very nature is peace.  
 In order to directly experience this peace as your True nature, enquire into who or what witnesses thoughts and then focus your attention constantly and consistently on and as that spacious awareness. 
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