If your life isn’t all that you want it to be or if you’re unhappy with yourself – what you think is going on has nothing to do with reality!  Decades of research prove that the normal subconscious mind quite literally makes up your reality for you – nothing to do with the real thing, just a mish-mash for crap (what some people call baggage) mainly from our formative years.

So, if you actually want to live the life that you really and truly want to live, you’re going to have to stop paying attention to the crap in your head that you think is turning your life into some black fantasy – you’re going to have to start paying attention to real reality.  You’re going to have to come to your senses – and I mean that literally.

Your body’s five senses are your only interface with the “outside” world.   Every sound you hear – whether it’s a rushing stream, traffic going by, something nice being said to you, or bad news – is first perceived through your ear, transmitted to your brain, interpreted in conjunction with what psychologists call “stored knowledge” (the crap I mentioned a moment ago) and, as a result, made sense of.   Same with each sight, each smell, each taste, each tactile feeling.

The fact is, however, that so-called normal people don’t make sense of what is being perceived – they make nonsense of it!   Because, rather than paying attention to their senses, they let their stored knowledge make up their minds for them.   And for most normal adults, that stored knowledge is way out of date – and the older you get the more out of date and irrelevant to the present moment it becomes.

Research has found that adults simply don’t know how to pay enough attention to their five senses – but these provide us with the real here and now information.   Instead, years of automatic behaviour drowns out our sensory perception and creates a half-life of automatic living.   In other words, normal people are, at best, sleepwalking their way through life, at worst, as good as dead.

From my own work’s perspective, I find plenty of people who are completely unable to pay attention for even five minutes – on occasions when I’ve asked a group to simply sit still for five minutes, the mere suggestion of sitting still resulted in some people almost hitting the ceiling such was their inability to simply appreciate the moment.  You need to sit still for a few minutes each day – let it be an exercise in fine-tuning your mind to pay attention to what you simply see, feel, here, smell and taste.  Don’t analyse what’s going on, don’t add your own interpretation based on the crap we’ve already mentioned.  Simply observe – because it is in really see what’s actually going on that the next idea that will change your life will be revealed to you.