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is how you exercise that choice. A key word when it comes to focusing
your awareness is slow. A key phrase is simply noticing.

Many people grow up believing that their awareness extends only to
those boundaries defined by the limits of their senses. Other people claim to

be clairvoyant and to have awareness beyond their physical senses. Whether
or not your awareness is expanded beyond your physical senses is totally
irrelevant when it comes to taming your gremlin and to fully enjoying
yourself and your gift of life. Regardless of how expansive or how limited
your senses are, you must still learn to gently focus your awareness if you
are to tame your gremlin.

When you practice establishing the here and now as a home base from
which you consciously control your spotlight of awareness, it will be

helpful to you to reflect on two fundamental tenets:

Remember where you end and all else begins. Breathe, dammit,
breathe.

REMEMBER WHERE YOU END AND ALL ELSE BEGINS

On some level we are all one. Sounds like ethereal woo-woo, I know, but
it’s true. It doesn’t mean that you’re me or that I’m you. It just means that
on the deepest level we are all the same pure energy. But—and this is an
important “but”—on this physical plane of existence, the one where we go
bowling and lose our keys, there is a miraculous sheath separating you from
the rest of the world. It is a wonderful sheath. It’s incredibly sensitive to the

world that surrounds you. It’s an amazing organ called—you guessed it—
your skin.