Questions About Self-inquiry

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Hey, not to long ago I started practicing self-inquiry. I used the instructions in David Godman's "Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi".

And I was wondering if the instructions are correct, as I seem to get lost in thoughts a lot.

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In the early stages of practice attention to the feeling ‘I’ is a mental activity which takes the form of a thought or a perception. As the practice develops the thought ‘I’ gives way to a subjectively experienced feeling of ‘I’..........

Is this how it supposed to be? 

From what I've seen from other sources such as Wikipedia it is described in a different way.

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Self-enquiry, also spelled self-inquiry, is the constant attention to the inner awareness of "I" or "I am" recommended by Ramana Maharshi as the most efficient and direct way of discovering the unreality of the "I"-thought.

Do they mean the same thing? Am I supposed to pay attention to the thought "Who am I?" and after some practice supposed to get some kind of feeling?

Replies will be greatly appreciated!

Edited October 31, 2016 by Mr Lenny

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@Mr Lenny Hi again!  I won't spend long here as I know I've made my thoughts known on another thread of yours about this subject.  All I'd suggest is that, if your thoughts run away from you, consider writing things down.