Meditation for June 27th, 2016
Being An Observer
We have six senses: touch, sight, hearing, taste, smell and our intuition. When we were mere surviving, our senses were beyond important, they saved our lives. We had to have our senses work together or we were doomed.
Now that we live in “civilization”, we have become so much more inner aware and are losing our ability to observe. We are in our phones, thoughts and our dumb selfish monkey brains.
We don’t notice signs, people being upset about our presence, we get lost easily, we don’t care about things and we struggle to understand basic environmental concepts. We have to be told where to go, we need things to be exactly the same or we won’t comprhend, we will just go where other people are like the cattle we are and we can’t stand not knowing.
Here are some reasons why and what we can do to make ourselves more observant and then thusly smarter.
We accept being dumb as being normal
We will laugh at liking shitty TV and terrible regurgitated music. “Yeah, it’s my guilty pleasure” we say sheepishly. We don’t read. We won’t read. We might snatch up some huge YA wizard book, but if the movies are coming out, we won’t be bothered. We won’t even read the hours on a store door before checking the door or even seeing if anyone is inside or if the lights are on, we are on a mission and the world will need to be adjusted to that mission or we will Yelp! We sure can write if it is the most passive aggressive way of letting the world know our disappointment, but we won’t read anything. If you’ve read this far, thank you, you are an amazing person. Take the patience and know how you used to read this to read other things.
Remember Revenge of the Nerds? Remember how the idiots were so against nerds that they would waste their whole day ruining the nerds college life? Well, you are all ogre, the dumb jock who lead the assault. Dumb, against fine culture, got through college without any critical thinking and sport happy.
Curiousity doesn’t kill
No one is curious anymore. They think that all has been discovered and it is the scientists’ job to know. They walk around knowing things so you don’t have to. You aren’t even curious. You’ll buy into complicated worded face moisturizers and fall for bulletproof coffee, but you don’t actually know that you are being duped by marketing taking advantage of your lack of curiousity about science.
It isn’t science either, it’s just the world around you. If you’ve ever thought this is the worse the world has ever been, you have never read anything historical. I’m not saying everything is fine, but it’s the best it’s ever been. Mostly because you’re not curious at all how to make it better. You’re still reacting to your emotions about how to vote and what to stand up for.
Curiousity also lets you see the beauty in the world. Curiousity slows you down and you look at things. You will stop and see a bumblebee covered in pollen in a pink rose. You will notice your partner looking at you lovingly and all the loneliness in the world will wash away.
Fucking meet yourself
The more you know yourself the better you are at knowing the world around you. I know, it’s scary learning about ourselves. You might have to uncover some dark truths about yourself and that might make you feel, but guess what, butterbuns, that is the whole human experience in a nutshell.
You can look a person in the eye, and though you might not know the exact pain that person is going through, you can know the depth of that pain. You might actually understand someone with an opposing view. You might actually become a good person instead of the gossipy, self-centered, back stabbing superficial asshole you are now.
Intuition is being a social psychic
Just understanding a person’s body language, eye movement, the words the person chooses to say and paying are too. To your own list of things will help you not tell a long pointless story, offend someone, creep someone out, or that someone plain doesn’t like you.
Listen to your gut, but match what your gut tells you with the facts you have. If you have no facts, go with the gut till you hear otherwise. People might tell you when you’re being too much, but you can’t count on it because everyone is too scared of confrontation – even the aggressive people; they shock and awe before there can be a real conversation.
Pause
Yes, just pause. Look around you. Read things. Pay attention to things. Take in the larger picture. If something catches your eye, walk up to it and look at it. You don’t have to rush in and run around confused and then get irate when nothing makes sense because you’re in a hurry. Slow down, you will die soon enough, but you have enough time to take in the world the way it is presenting itself to you.
Wander
A lot like the pausing, wandering can let you reconnoiter your surroundings before trying to engage with the environment. This lets you see the whole picture before you just hope everything you need is in the first place you look. It usually isn’t. You stand there disappointed with the whole world.
Basically stop being a self-centered idiot and take a look around you.