Getting Back to Your True Self When Clarity Seems Lost

How do you get back to your true self of pure being when the clarity and peace has gone? A man says that he can remember the clarity of the truth of his essence, but the understanding comes and goes. He asks what he can do to get back on track.
Rupert explains that clarity is the essential nature of your mind - it is the fact of being aware or awareness itself. Even in the midst of intense emotions like anxiety or depression, awareness is always transparent, open, free knowing alone, but we don't notice this because we have become lost in our activity. We give attention to thoughts or feelings and not the 'I am', so our being has been temporarily clouded or seemingly dimmed by these thoughts or feelings. That is, you, awareness, have temporarily lost yourself in your own activity of thinking and perceiving.
To come back to true nature of yourself, you have to disentangle yourself from the content of experience in which you have temporarily lost yourself. You have to trace your way back to your true self.
One way you can do this is by asking yourself: 'What is it that is aware of my depression?' This way our mind traces its way back to its essence rather than forwards to the content.
Thoughts and feelings are just conditioned patterns or habits. So create a new habit of going back to your self or your being. It will become easier and faster to find your way back to yourself the more you do it, and in time, the feelings will disappear and the clarity of awareness will shine in the foreground, rather than the background of all experience.
This clips was taken from one of Rupert's weekly webinars.
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