Hello my friends I'm De Park Chopra this is Daily Breath.

We are in the first week of our new series, Total Meditation.

Personal Transformation is what meditation provides once you embark on the journey. The first step is realizing that awareness in some form is always present. In every moment of our life, awareness is the background of everything we think, feel, perceive, imagine, or sense.

It is awareness that is watching this ceaselessly and the awareness itself is not

judging or labeling and that we leave to the mind The awareness is the observer of the mind itself.

So awareness precedes thoughts.

In modern life, which is built on mental activity, no one has any idea where thoughts come from.

Nothing about a brain cell indicates that it is processing thoughts or feelings or sensations. But as we wake up, so does the

Cosmos wake up. The notion that human beings, we, can make the universe wake up, it's a very interesting notion

proposed by many scientists including the physicist David Doish, who says that it's our explanatory process that gives meaning to the universe.

And that actually places consciousness as front and center in the creative process.

You may have heard from the physicist John Archibald Wheeler that we live in a participatory universe.

In other words, everything that we think is real out there

depends on our beliefs, perceptions and observations and interpretations and

expectations in here, in here meaning in our own consciousness, in our own

self. So for today, let's pause with just that. You're going to.