Becoming Aware of the World Around Us

How often do we take note of what is around us, constantly consumed by our thoughts on how we live our lives, totally absorbed into some other world within our mind?  Sometimes it is not until we hit our head on something that we realize that we need to spend more time physically focusing on what we are doing.

We think continuously about our actions of past experiences, mulling over the dramas of the day.  Instead of realizing that we are now living in the experience, right in the moment is where it is all happening, where we are creating and existing.  It is now where we take note of our experiences and hold onto them as memory for future reference.

How we see the world determines what we will remember, and if we are constantly consumed by past thoughts, how will we ever be able to make new ones that enhance our experience? 

Do we see the color of the roses?  Take note of the warmth of the day?  Watch as the birds fly by?  Or do we walk along in another world, thinking about an experience that has already past us by. 

How can we ever see the beauty of life, understand the fullness of our reality when we live in a world purely within our thoughts, memory that is taken on by choice and selection, instead of by observing the world around us. 

The real world is here and now.  It is a place where things occur spontaneously, where we experience the full depth of reality.  Where we are able to interact with others and enjoy physical sensations and take things in conceptually.  Here in the moment is the place where we can create, where we find inspiration and drive to participate in life and all the activities available to us.

If we take time to watch the grass grow, to see the effects taking place in all things around us, not only will we be enhancing our experience by learning more about our world, but we will be in the experience itself, right where it is all happening. 

Instead of building our life on memory we can then build our life on experiences.