Having Trouble With Self Inquiry? Try This

When we first try self inquiry it can be frustrating to say the least. However if you give it some time and follow a few pointers it can evolve into a profound investigation that can take you to places that will surprise you.
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About my videos: These videos are a resource for anyone wishing to wake up from the dream of separation. Awakening, enlightenment, and liberation are becoming far more mainstream possibilities than they once were. There are many good teachers out there, and if you resonate with the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, or Sadhguru, you might find resources here that address these deeper promptings to investigate your true nature.
Disclaimer: The information presented in these videos is not meant to diagnose or treat any psychiatric or medical illness. The inquiries presented herein are potent and can have powerful effects on the way you experience yourself and reality. If you feel you are at risk of harming yourself or others, these videos and practices may not be the best thing for you at the moment. Seek help wherever necessary which might include a hospital emergency department, a suicide helpline etc.

[@backupviber6285]

​Hi everybody kind here, I discovered very powerful inside response when I am asking "Who am I", and repeating literally saying inside "I am simply asking Who I really am". It is a feeling that nothing else needed, just asking, that's all.

[@user-lw9yi3ng7o]

I love when you guided self inquiry perfect gold

[@CasenJames]

In this space, it's easy to get a sense of what's meant in the classic adage, "Get out of your own way". Love y'all ❤️‍🔥

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Very true

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

This one resonates!

[@CasenJames]

!!! ❤️

[@rajwantneena]

Felt like stillness inside the body and outside at the same time, or my mind saying it but mind cannot feel, thanks Angelo great videos one after another 🙏🏼

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful!

[@seancasey98]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Angelo, for making this video. I have found this process so futile. Been doing inquiry often, pretty much every day on the drive to and from work. I ask the question and disengage the brain, not expecting or looking for an answer (as I've been taught) however all I get is some random unrelated thought. Probably of what to expect at work on the drive in or a reflection of what happened at work on the drive home. And so it's gone on. Think I'll play this video again and again so it really sinks in. 'I' am going to nail this inquiry thing, if its the last thing I do lol 😉. Many thanks for all you pointing maybe I need a big Awakening road sign this way ➡ to look out for on my daily commute 😂😂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You're Welcome!

[@ho5286]

Thanks for this.. Around 5/6 years in, and in the beginning my new found understanding was so hugely comforting and so familiar It feels like the honeymoon is over? Or is it that I'm used to the change? Am I still seeking? when I ask that, I know there is nothing to seek it's all here, I need to remember it's simple, Thanks for video, it will help.. Much love from Ireland

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Nice to hear from you :)

[@randyclere7756]

This was potent! I’ve been pulling myself “off center” paying too much attention to the news… this brought me back!!🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

☺️

[@emotionwave]

Thank you, this is so helpful. I only started self inquiry a couple of weeks back after reading Ramana Maharshi and didn't feel like it was leading anywhere, just to conceptual understandings of 'not me' - I feel like this has helped a lot, I'm at a turning point here.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful to hear! I wish you a fruitful journey to the other side!

[@prettygirltingz9077]

Even bringing my attention to the feeling of my being. My thoughts,mind or ego correct ???? and how is my thoughts or mind going to cause my thoughts to be neutralize or am I misunderstanding....then when I ask my..who am I this body gets these intense chill sensations and ear buzzing???

[@nickd5325]

Really good. Thank you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome

[@anthonysheehanjr1]

I started doing this inquiry (and forgive me if this is already described elsewhere or is just off based) and it has really opened up some great space for me. Usually when I’m at work, I’ll go walk to grab some coffee or water and the hallway is long and is typically empty (I work nights) and as I’m walking I ask myself “who is walking? Or How am I walking “ I started to do that with many various activities like playing basketball and cleaning and it’s like my body just does what my intention is but my thoughts are just floating by and are meaningless to the action itself It was a very opening revelation when I saw that I could walk somewhere and actively think “stop walking or hop on one foot” and my body just continued walking. It helped me realize that there’s no actual thinker and doer and that “I” exist somewhere past those thoughts. Does this make sense ?? 🤨 Thanks for great videos 🤘

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes it does!

[@backupviber6285]

​@@SimplyAlwaysAwake​Hi, I discovered very powerful inside response when I am asking "Who am I", and repeating literally saying inside "I am simply asking Who I really am". It is a feeling that nothing else needed, just asking, that's all.

[@myrealnameisawareness]

Only last night did i think for the first time that i do not have the energy for self inquiry. I could only surrender as i am so confused.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Surrender is good to :))) What is just beyond confusion?

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks, walking my self back with these talks.

[@jonnblackwell7747]

Another great one, Angelo!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for listening

[@nancyg3590]

Edgeless awareness…

[@marialampe1659]

Thank you dear Angelo. This is really helpful! 🙏🏻💜✨

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Tabrox22TomekGrzymski]

Angelo… you are my teacher, by KZbin comments, its so funny…. But finally after years of seeking it worked. While zazen meditation and asking „who am i”, it hit me. It wasnt gradual at all, massive change, sudden light, and puff… my body was gone. I had No body! I was The Floor, everything, everything was so fluent and radiant. Of course, there was a massive fear response, but i sit throught it. It wasnt big, but i might say it was kensho ? So „seeing a bull?” What do you think ? Any advice how to process to make it deeper ? Thank you so much for everything. It was your book which was The biggest impact.❤️🙏 now i have 0 doubt it really works!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Just keep returning there, it will go deeper, but don't reify deepening just return to where you never left ;)

[@Tabrox22TomekGrzymski]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you ❤️

[@rajwantneena]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Any time!

[@danielmaina4942]

🙏🙏🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🙏🏼

[@sam55246]

thank you (me)!

[@BackroadBender]

I am able to come back to the 'I'-thought when my mind wanders but I feel like I'm not able to go deep into it. It's like I am not able to actually go deeper into that void, almost like there's a wall which is just the ego protecting itself, feeling like a solid thing. I remember the experience of watching the 'I' disappear but 'I' came back and have been doing inquiry for 7 months since

[@CasenJames]

I relate. I'm sure you know this, but just continue participating with this process. Have trust and follow intuition. It's nice to hear your experience. I appreciate you sharing - I think a lot of us resonate and it's a gift of grace to know that there are others out there that are in the process of living truth.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Good work. Don’t worry about going deeper. Also don’t worry about a void. Just remain :)

[@prior2yourstory]

Appear, disappear. Appear, disappear. Let it be, just like that.

[@BackroadBender]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thanks

[@BackroadBender]

@@CasenJames yes. A's Ramana said, if you are doing inquiry, you are making progress

[@pedroluizsouzapinto1980]

so, I'm having this another problem with inquity, I would be pleased if you could answer me. I've tried on Power of Now for a few times and stepped on this same problem I'm having now on inquiry. Thing is, after some days of practicing it my mind won't accept it anymore, it just takes an enormous amount of effort to keep the mind empty and each time this needed effort looks bigger. The mind have this uncontrollable urge to thing in any nonsense sh*t. Feels like when you stop breathing, and you eventually feel like you just can't keep yourself from breathing anymore. Inquiry practices sometimes feels like that. I've looked on reddit and on youtube for solution or similar cases but just couldn't find anything about this subject. What should I do?

[@benjaminmiller3075]

I get feelings: feelings in my sinuses from breath and aches around my heart.

[@benjaminmiller3075]

Actually, that was pretty interesting

[@pignut9361]

Hey Angelo, is this the same as “resting as that which hears/sees/perceives/registers/knows”? When you suggest to look for “me” attention has nothin tangible to land upon, it’s like trying to see the back of my head, so I find it easier to “fall back” into that which knows, rather than “look” for that which knows. It’s an alert, quiet, and neutral state of witnessing-being. For example, if attention lands on a cup, it feels easier to rest as “that which sees [the cup)”. Dunno if I’m doing it right though, so any pointers would be helpful. Much thanks 👍

[@Roland-0-0]

Angelo, when doing self inquiry my awareness goes to a tingling sensation around my heart, I ask where am I? Something points me to focus on the heart, Is this normal or a thought?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You might investigate a little closer. Is it a composite experience? ie os there a sensation in the heart area AND a label saying that there is tingling in the heart? Also is there an image in the mind of the chest or body? Etc. so if you find the composite experience then where does it most feel like you?

[@Roland-0-0]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you 🙏, I will work on it

[@spocksdaughter9641]

Do you reconize an answer i now feel like an instant jolt perhaps what might be like kundalini rush? Same in my grounding clearing rituals but very strong sweeping not short electric.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

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[@nunurbusiness894]

Thank you Angelo. I have a stupid question I suppose, I've heard be "aware of awareness" or "be aware of being aware" countless times but never have really ever understood it. Is it like when there is the realization that there are thoughts and what it is that realizes that there are thoughts is the Awareness or sense of I Am? Being aware that this awareness that is aware of the narrative or thought, is not thought but prior to thought, is awareness?? (I probably butchered this).

[@_kirbis_2721]

I started doing who am I inquiry just recently after realizing that i just have no idea, and I'm wondering if the answer actually delivers? Or it's an endless going into now?

[@RevAnakin]

The real problem is that every time I ask, "who am I?" The immediate thought is Les Miserables and my mind jumps to me to sing as loud as I can, "I'm Jean ValJean!" Or "24601!"

[@sistergroup5368]

I don't know what you mean by "the space where it feels like you are." I don't know where I am. I can notice that this a thought and ask who am I again, and the same thing will happen. It makes me wonder if it's any different than simply noticing thoughts. What is the "Who am I" question doing?

[@johnmedina9086]

Oh…. I’m fucking literally everything 🤔🤯🤯…. Not gonna lie I did not see this coming

[@johnmedina9086]

The video you did about the chick who thought she lost her head makes a lot more sense now

[@MelFinehout]

What seems to happen to me is that when I "get there" there is a sorta subtle layer of what I might call "meta-thought" its a stream of monitoring of the mind, kinda. When I turn attention to that the thoughts begin to dissolve even as they arise, before they are fully formed. I see that as I turn my attention "there" the thought about the thought becomes the object of attention. It feels VERY intense. Energy flows down the spine and it feels like I would be able to light up a dark room. It's all a bit much. Sometimes my back cracks and my body flinches and lurches. It's at once extraordinarily pleasant AND unbearable. A few minutes of this is about all I can take. I don't know if I shoukd try to develop the ability to stay there, in the intensity, of avoid doing so. Any opinions?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Just take it a little a time. You can alternate with any sort of energy regulating practices such as yoga, Qigong, TRE etc. At sone point it won’t come with so much straining and physical tension.

[@niranjiperera774]

Hi Angelo, is body mind purification a common experience everyone goes through in awakening, Many thanks 😊 🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It depends what you mean by that.

[@niranjiperera774]

Hi Angelo what I meant was release of uncomfortable emotions and feelings , Thankyou

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@niranjiperera774 absolutely

[@suryamanilayton8476]

Just listening to this video with a sense of excitement that I might finally be able to do this self enquiry thing my face got super tense and my body itchy! Thought came 'this is resistance in the body' Do I disregard that thought and return to 'who am I'?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

yes. physical reactions will pass

[@suryamanilayton8476]

Thanks so much Angelo 🙏 So appreciate all you do and are ❤😊

[@MokshagnaKanya]

If i do selfenquiry as perfect as you did, can i be liberated??

[@keena1487]

Those pesky f*cking thoughts. Lol

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🤣

[@VeritableVagabond]

Sometimes I like to pretend that I’m an alien and don’t understand english