This is another description from another 'self' to describe how to become an OBSERVER of our MIND.

“Identification with your mind creates an opaque/fogged screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that can block or mask all true relationships. It comes internally within you, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature… The mind when used wrongly, can become very destructive and manifest itself in your external actions or internal thinking. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that people use their mind wrongly – people allow it to use them. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

Just because we can solve a crossword puzzle or mankind can build an atom bomb doesn't mean that one can use your mind. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to work on problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs. Let me ask you this: can you be free of your mind whenever you want to, have you found the "off" button? If not then the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It’s almost as if you were possessed without knowing it, and so you are not the possessing entity - the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

When someone goes to the doctor and says, "I hear a voice in my head," he or she will most likely be sent to a psychiatrist. The fact is that, in a very similar way, virtually everyone hears a voice, or several voices, in their head all the time: the involuntary thought processes that you don't realize you have the power to stop. Continuous monologues or dialogues. You have probably come across "mad" people in the street incessantly talking or muttering to themselves. Well, that's not much different from what you and all other "normal" people do, except that you don't do it out loud.

The voice comments, speculates, judges, compares, complains, likes, dislikes, and so on. The voice isn't necessarily relevant to the situation you find yourself in at the time; it may be reviving the recent or distant past or rehearsing or imagining possible future situations. Here it often imagines things going wrong and negative outcomes; we know this is called ‘worry’. Sometimes this soundtrack is accompanied by visual images or "mental movies."

Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it. It is not uncommon for the voice to be a person's own worst enemy. Some people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. I call this a type of fear. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. This is the only true liberation. You can take the first step right now. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns, those old gramophone records that have been playing in your head perhaps for many years. This is what the author calls "watching the thinker," which is another way of saying: listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence. When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. Do not judge or condemn what you hear, and do not draw conclusions for your actions from this, for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind. I see this akin to nirvana for Buddhists.

So when you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought, make sense? A new dimension of consciousness has come in. As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence - your deeper self - behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking again a hallmark of nirvana.

When a thought subsides, you experience a discontinuity in the mental stream - a gap of "no-mind." At first, the gaps will be short, a few seconds perhaps, but gradually they will become longer. When these gaps occur, you feel a certain stillness and peace inside you. This is the beginning of your natural state of felt oneness with being, which is usually obscured by the mind. With practice, the sense of stillness and peace will deepen. In fact, there is no end to its depth. You will also feel a subtle emanation of joy arising from deep within: the joy of being. It is not a trancelike state. There is no loss of consciousness here. The opposite is the case. If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having. In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state.