Free CourseEleven Teachings

The Art of Self-Observation

The first key

Five short lessons on the first key of the inner work, seeing yourself as you are, followed by six talks that take it deeper.

  • 11Teachings
  • 2Hours
  • FreeFor all

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Talk 1

How to Observe Yourself

The first key

The five lessons · Talk 1

How to Observe Yourself

What self-observation really is: seeing yourself here and now, without judging, analyzing or trying to improve anything. Why that small gap between you and your reactions is where inner freedom begins, and a first practice: “I am observing.”

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About this course

The first key

Self-observation is simple to say and hard to do: to see yourself here and now, your thoughts, feelings and reactions, without judging them and without trying to fix them. In that small gap between you and what passes through you, inner freedom begins.

The five lessons were filmed as one series: how to observe, why you are not your thoughts, how to stay present all day, why fighting the ego feeds it, and the silent witness who sees. The talks after them answer the questions that come once you start: the spiritual ego, overthinking, and the stories we repeat to ourselves.

How to walk it

Watch one lesson a day and live its practice until the next. The lessons are short on purpose: the work is in the hours between them.

Its teachings have been watched more than 200,000 times on YouTube.

To see, to truly see is to understand. To understand is to be free.

From the talk Stop Fighting Your Ego

What is life but a playground of wisdom? Wisdom is at every corner, yet nobody sees it.

From the talk Ego Is the Enemy of Reality

We are not the song, but we are the person who is able to change the station.

From the talk The Psychological Song