HOW TO REALIZE YOUR SELF IN 1 SECOND

 Your real Self is consciousness: as existence or the inner awareness 'I am' (I exist).

To realize bodiless consciousness as your real Self, simply:

Simply close your eyes

Empty your mind of all concepts and be completely still

When your mind is empty for even one second, you will realize you are still aware (conscious)

And in that realization lies the truth of the statement "Be still and know that I am God" (existence, consciousness, being-ness). 

 Once awareness of your awareness matures, it becomes easier to be aware of your real Self (even when eyes are open).

 Although it is difficult to make the mind completely still, everyone can accomplish that for at least one second.

 And during that one second of stillness, all that remains is that you are still aware (conscious, that you still exist).

 One second is more than enough to realize you are consciousness (existence, beingness).

Hence one second of realizing the absolute truth of your Self is enough to completely change a life.

Since consciousness is bodiless (being immaterial and non-spatial), it has to imagine a body to perceive experiences.

But a body is only a vehicle of experience, not the Self (consciousness).

 When the absolute truth (reality) is realized in even one second of stillness, you come to realize:

Before you had a body, you were aware (conscious that you exist)

While you have a body, you are aware (conscious that you exist)

After the body is gone, you will remain aware (conscious that you exist)

Awareness always remains (existence always exists) and is the screen within which life is imagined

 Concepts (thoughts) alone lead one into forgetfulness of the substratum of life (consciousness).  

 So long as one identifies with thoughts or the body, one remains unaware of one's real Self (as consciousness).

 There is never a moment when consciousness does not exist (since it is existence itself).

 All the mischief in life results from misidentification: identifying as a body and mind (the unreal).

 And all the good in life comes from remaining aware of your true nature as awareness (the real)

Consciousness being forever free, still and complete: simply imagines experiences for play (for such is its nature).

So to play freely in the world imagined for play:

Be still for at least one second to realize your real Self as awareness, and

Shift your identity firmly from body and mind to your real Self (as awareness)