Rick Carson

It’s the difference between knowing about and really knowing

The simply in simply noticing cannot be overstated. Simply noticing has nothing to do with predicting the future, undoing the past, analyzing, or intellectually understanding anything. Simply noticing involves only simply noticing. That is, paying attention—the same sort of attention you would pay to a good movie. When you watch a good movie, you simply let yourself be entertained. You don’t work at enjoying the movie. You just cast your awareness on the screen and let the movie do its thing.

Simply noticing requires effort. It does not require strain.

Simply notice the natural order of things. Work with it rather than against it.

For to try to change what is only sets up resistance.

I free myself not by trying to be free, but by simply noticing how I am imprisoning myself in the very moment I am imprisoning myself.

There are three basic processes involved in taming your gremlin. These are:

Simply Noticing
Choosing and Playing with Options
Being in Process

To lead a full, rich life, however, and to tame your gremlin and tap into the natural you, it is helpful to be conscious of the flow of your awareness from your body—to the world around you—to the world of mind.

Awareness is a tool. At any point you can choose to focus your awareness on any one of three realms:

Your Body

or

The World Around You

or

The World of Mind

You can focus your awareness with the precision of a laser or broaden it, drawing into your experience a range of facts, fantasies, and fantastic goings-on.

Consciously focusing your awareness requires effort. It does not require strain.