Feeling Alive by Paying Attention to Our 5 Senses

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y of food that our Earth has to offer. Our five senses are the tools for our raw feels and emotions.</p><p id="de90">On the other hand, thoughts are a more complex system. They are centered in our heads and are like a barrier cutting us from the world. Maybe they even are responsible for this veil. Our brain is our thinking tool. The one we use to comprehend the world mentally. The one we use when we have a choice to make, or a situation to understand.</p><p id="5508">While senses are a tool for sharing, thoughts are isolating.</p><p id="b9f5">Thoughts are harmful to the full experience of our senses. They are a sort of barrier.</p><p id="965d">When swimming in the world using our five senses, we have to turn our thinking system off, and simply trust our senses. This is the real door to feeling conscious, alive. To feel the beauty of reality. It’s nothing more complicated.</p><p id="5ad0">The more you’ll pay attention to the way you feel, in all senses of the world, the sharper your senses will get. The sharper your senses will get, the more strikingly you’ll experience reality.</p><p id="bf02">We live in a time when everything cuts us off from our senses. Everything takes us out of reality. Everything extracts us from the present moment. Quick and easy example: our phones. Have you ever paid attention to the way our phones make us feel? Away from reality. Even if for just a minute. But every time you take your phone up, you’ll have to make the connection process all over again.</p><p id="ea75">Imagine a toolbox. Thoughts are one of the tools, senses are another. Just pick the one that you need at the moment. Each tool is suitable for a specific situation. Do you encounter a problem? A situation needing to be solved? Pick your brain up, and think. When you’re done, turn your brain off

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. And get back on default mode, which is the sensory mode.</p><p id="ad32">In this area, let’s proceed like animals. Their senses are their compass. That’s why they experience the world in a raw way. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t use the brain that we have been given. Simply, we shouldn’t use it constantly. It’s not our default mode. Our senses are.</p><p id="5d0f"><b>Unlock Your Best Life</b>, get my free 5-day course via email → <a href="https://bit.ly/388XW0t">https://bit.ly/388XW0t</a></p><p id="8f90">Other stories you may like:</p><div id="4ff4" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/do-you-know-the-feeling-of-being-alive-4e540d998b0"> <div> <div> <h2>Do You Know the Feeling of Being Alive?</h2> <div><h3>This is my raw happiness feeling</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*-dqoONUNUkJQ2xiI1VH-2w.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="9ac6" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/i-got-an-insight-of-what-mindfulness-meditation-meant-to-me-f93bd9e12fa9"> <div> <div> <h2>I Got an Insight of What Mindfulness Meditation Meant to Me</h2> <div><h3>It was about blending in with my environment and sensations</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*yM_TVavaJDCjOmmBtUh5Bg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Experiencing the world rather than mentalizing it

Have you ever felt like a thin veil was occulting your sense of presence in the world? As if you were here, but not totally? As if the more you tried to step into reality, the more you felt this veil hampering your senses?

I do. I feel the real world, the present moment, but as though it was on the other side of a window glass. One day, I realized that I was unable to fully experience anything. I tried to soak into reality, feel its subtleties and textures on my skin, smell its flavor, but the more I tried, the more I felt this thin separation.

As if I was locked in my head. Experiencing the world through a window.

My head is where my thoughts are. And I tend to “separate” the thoughts and the senses. Not that they are not linked since they are, but rather that they should be used separately. Each one suits a different situation.

Senses are for experiencing the world. Feeling the present moment. Feeling the reality. It’s our access to the world. We can see our environment, smell the smells that inhabit it, touch the people that we love and the things that surround us, hear a multitude of sounds, some loud, other soft, and taste the variety of food that our Earth has to offer. Our five senses are the tools for our raw feels and emotions.

On the other hand, thoughts are a more complex system. They are centered in our heads and are like a barrier cutting us from the world. Maybe they even are responsible for this veil. Our brain is our thinking tool. The one we use to comprehend the world mentally. The one we use when we have a choice to make, or a situation to understand.

While senses are a tool for sharing, thoughts are isolating.

Thoughts are harmful to the full experience of our senses. They are a sort of barrier.

When swimming in the world using our five senses, we have to turn our thinking system off, and simply trust our senses. This is the real door to feeling conscious, alive. To feel the beauty of reality. It’s nothing more complicated.

The more you’ll pay attention to the way you feel, in all senses of the world, the sharper your senses will get. The sharper your senses will get, the more strikingly you’ll experience reality.

We live in a time when everything cuts us off from our senses. Everything takes us out of reality. Everything extracts us from the present moment. Quick and easy example: our phones. Have you ever paid attention to the way our phones make us feel? Away from reality. Even if for just a minute. But every time you take your phone up, you’ll have to make the connection process all over again.

Imagine a toolbox. Thoughts are one of the tools, senses are another. Just pick the one that you need at the moment. Each tool is suitable for a specific situation. Do you encounter a problem? A situation needing to be solved? Pick your brain up, and think. When you’re done, turn your brain off. And get back on default mode, which is the sensory mode.

In this area, let’s proceed like animals. Their senses are their compass. That’s why they experience the world in a raw way. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t use the brain that we have been given. Simply, we shouldn’t use it constantly. It’s not our default mode. Our senses are.

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