Watch and observe yourself are two completely different things, but both require attention.
In observing the attention is directed outward toward the outside world through the windows of the senses. In self-observation itself, attention is directed inward and to do the senses of external perception not work, why it more than enough to make it difficult for the neophyte observing their intimate psychological processes.
The starting point of the official science in its practical side, is observable. The starting point of the work itself, is self-observation, self-observable.
Unquestionably, these two lines starting points mentioned above, lead to completely different directions. Old Could someone engaged between the dogmas of official science, studying external phenomena, observing cells, atoms, molecules, suns, stars, comets, etc.., Without experiencing within himself no radical change. The kind of knowledge that transforms someone interiorly, could never be achieved through external observation.
True knowledge can actually cause a change in us is fundamental inner base self-direct observation of himself. It is urgent to understand why we observe themselves and in what way we self-observe and the reasons we have for it.
Observation is a means to modify the mechanical condition of the world. The inner self-observation is a means to change intimately.
As a consequence or corollary of all this, we can and must emphatically affirm that there are two kinds of knowledge, external and internal, and that unless we have in themselves the magnetic center that can distinguish the qualities of knowledge, this mixture of the two levels or orders of ideas could lead to confusion.
Sublime esoteric doctrines with marked pseudo-scientism background belong to the realm of the observable, however, are accepted by many applicants as internal knowledge.
We are therefore faced with two worlds, the outside and inside. The first of these is perceived by the senses of external perception, the latter can only be perceived by the sense of inner self-observation.
Thoughts, ideas, emotions, desires, hopes, disappointments, etc.., Are internal, invisible to the ordinary senses, and ordinary, however, are more real to us than the dining table or chairs in the room.
Certainly we live in our inner world more than the outside, that is irrefutable, indisputable. In our inner world, our secret world, we love, we want, we suspect, bless, curse, yearn, suffer, rejoice, we are disappointed, awards, etc., Etc., Etc.
Unquestionably, the two worlds: internal and external are experimentally verifiable. The outside world is the observable. The inner world is self-observable itself and within itself, here and now.
Who really wants to know the "Inner Worlds" of planet Earth or the solar system or the galaxy in which we live, you know beforehand your intimate world, his inner life, especially their own "inner worlds, so it has been said great truth: "Man, know thyself and know the Universe and the Gods."
The more you explore the "inner world" called "self", the more they will understand that we live simultaneously in two worlds, two realities, in two areas: exterior and interior.
Just as one is indispensable to learn to walk in the "outside world", to avoid falling into a precipice, not lost in the streets of the city, select the friendships, not associated with evil, not eating poison, etc. and also by the psychological work on himself, learn to walk in the "inner world" which is searchable through self-observation.
Really the sense of self-observation itself is atrophied in the human race decadent dark this time in which we live. But as we persevere in self-OBSERVATION OF THEMSELVES, THE SENSE OF SELF-close observation will be developed progressively.