Joana Gockel

I came across this amazing meditation method where I can let go of my false self. This false self consists of all the prejudices, habits and views I have of the world, myself and others. My true self, which can be discovered through meditation, is a never changing, eternal, living existence. Because our body works on the principle of a camera, from the time we are born we have taken in everything through our five senses. From all these pictures we took in, we created our own world, which is not real, because it is only made of our limited experiences of the world. When we let go of this superimposed copy of the world we find the true world.

It is the best thing ever and I am super excited about it, it means finding eternal peace and happiness. It makes us one, because what separates us is that each person lives in their own mind world and no two people can agree on those worlds because each person has taken different pictures of the world. When we see the world as it is and not through those pictures, then we can share that world with everyone bringing people together with understanding and appreciation.

But it requires letting go of everything. All attachments. Everything the mind holds. It is great freedom and liberation not to be bound and limited by our own minds.

I’ve practised it a lot and got a sense of what it feels like to be free. The method works really well and I am super grateful that it is my daily tool to get one step closer to my true self.

While meditating, there are some things that seem to come up again and again, relentlessly. Sometimes I didn’t even notice that there were these thoughts repeating in my mind because they seemed so normal and natural. But after practising meditation more and more, I began to notice these things, the fixed images or memories in my mind that seemed so normal because I was used to them being there. Now it is time for me to let them go, and I am committed to letting them go.