Share Yours, and I’ll Share Mine

Here’s a pretty difficult exercise. It is nowhere near as easy as it would seem.

Go outside. Take a seat somewhere that lends itself to inner reflection. Sit quietly, by yourself, and breathe deep. Allow yourself to feel the loosening of you muscles, your joints, your stress. Allow your mind to become clear and calm. Once you have achieved a state of mental and physical relaxation, begin to look around you. Take the world in through your eyes, your ears, your nose…experience the world around you using all of your sense. Now, look around again, studying everything in detail.

Try to do all of this without labeling a single thing.

Go ahead; try it. You will most likely find that you will hear your voice in your head labeling everything and anything you take in. It is one thing to know what a thing is when you sense it, it is quite another to know what it is and insist of calling out its name. I know, it sounds goofy. Just try it.

Let me know how it goes. I’ll tell you how the experience went for me.

Share yours, and I’ll share mine.