Daily Awareness Practice - Be Intense

You might have experienced, when you do anything intensely, you will forget yourself. You might have experienced this many times in your lives. It can be anything that you do. It can be as simple as coloring or painting or reading. When you go deep into it, you forget yourself.

When you have an intense headache, just try doing something interesting very deeply; your headache will go away. It is because you are continuously aware of your head that your headache continues to bother you. The moment you go deep into something else and lose awareness of your head, your headache will simply disappear. Only when you remember your head, you can have a headache.

When you go deeply into any emotion, only that emotion remains and you cease to exist. This is what we mean by 'totality'. Be total and intense in everything you do. Then 'you' will disappear. This moment of 'you' disappearing, you may experience for just a few seconds. But if you work on being intense and total in everything, this experience of 'you' disappearing will happen more often to you and for longer periods also. Soon, you will master the art of doing work intensely, and being absent yourself! You can then turn off and on at your will. You become independent of the work that goes on outside.