“When we live with awareness it’s as if we’re waking from a dream. Everything looks more vivid, sounds clearer, feels richer, smells stronger and taste better. It awakens each sensation. I think pretty much everyone experiences this feeling of clarity from meditation as we cultivate this quality of mindfulness in our everyday life. Things just start to look a bit sharper. You know we start to see things with a bit more clarity. It’s not that they didn’t exist before, we just weren’t fully present to experience them through the physical senses. The body was in one place and mind was in another. We might be walking down the road but rather than being aware of all those physical senses, we were thinking about something that had happened, or planning something that might happen and that’s true sort of throughout our life. We have been caught up in this all sort of foggy mist of thinking and confusion and suddenly as we start to drop that thinking everything sort of comes into to sharper view, through every single one of our physical senses. Mostly this is a very sort of pleasant thing, but we might also experience just the noise of the business around us, and at times can even feel sort of unsettling. But if we are able to let go of the thinking about that experience and simply rest in the sensation of it, then we’ll find again a freedom and ease of mind. “
Andy Puddicome – Co-founder of headspace
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