because your It means to know thyself and the word meditation means to become familiar with So as you become familiar with the thoughts the behaviors and the emotions of the old self You're retiring that old self as you fire and wire new thoughts and condition the body into a new emotional state if you do that Enough times it'll begin to become familiar to you. So it's so important Just like a garden if you're planting a garden, you've got to get rid of the weeds You got to take the plants from the past year and you got to pull them out the rocks that sift to the top that