Our Superpower of Noticing

Our Superpower of Noticing
  
I had a conversation with a client today about how she had noticed that her experience of life and her body's experience of life are not dependant on what happens but rather if she gave it any thought or not.
 
Her insight is powerful. In realizing that we have a lot of agency in how we experience life, we can start to live more peaceful and happy lives. More easeful.
 
But I would like to highlight that there is even more power in the fact of noticing. In noticing that we notice. Humans are designed to notice when we are "off" or caught up in our thinking or creating our own negative experiences. We bring ourselves back to clarity. If only for a moment. We notice.
 
However, most of the time we don't understand the significance of our jolt out of our state of thinking. We come to, only to say something like "Oh, where was I?" And go right back into the unproductive cycle we were in.
 
I like to point out noticing because it's a moment of clarity. We are designed to bring ourselves out of unhelpful and unhealthy ways of being. We all do it. Constantly. It gives our minds and bodies a break. We can rest and reset. Naturally.
 
Once someone knows what that sudden coming out of it means, then they can choose to stay in the moment of noticing or go back into whatever they were feeling. Hint: If it didn't feel good then don't go back.
 
What my client had noticed was that she could decide to not think something if it didn't feel good because it was hurting her body and exhausting her. And in noticing that when she dropped unproductive or unwanted thoughts, she enjoyed it, and she noticed when she did it again. As she got better and better at dropping thoughts, she felt better and better.
 
As humans, we aren't meant to live in a world of thinking as much as we do. It's a tool. We tend to use it as a way of being. This creates breakdown in the mind and the body. We burn out.
 
If you would like to experience the ease that comes with dropping thought, try it out for yourself. Notice with curiosity the next time you shift or drop thought. It might feel like a shift of attention or it might feel like waking up to a blank slate for a moment.
 
Notice yourself noticing. This is our natural way of clearing our windscreen if you will, and starting fresh each moment. We can then go on with our day renewed and refreshed.
 
And like my client, life just gets better and better from that first moment of noticing your noticing. A deeper dimension to life emerges and we start to experience more peace more of the time.

With Love, 

Sara Joy