Be real with yourself for a sec—how many times have you been somewhere without really being there at all? How often have you missed what’s right in front of you because you were lost inside your head? How common is it for you to live from the story of what things are instead of the truth of them?
Yeah, me too.
If you’ve ever wondered why life seems to accelerate after a ‘certain age’ its twofold: one, we stop having new experiences and two, we stop paying attention.
While you cannot always do new things, you can do the same things in new ways by tuning your attention to the sensations of the experience while you’re in it.
When you do this, you start living less from the well-worn and over-rehearsed story about yourself and more from, well, just yourself, as you are.
If that sounds like something you’re into, welcome to the jungle-edges of Outgrowing the Matrix. This is day 9 of our journey back into the wild, unscripted territory of real life.
