Zombie mode
Ring any bells? You’ve left the house for a weekend away, driven 2 km’s down the road and you cannot remember whether the alarm had been set or the stove switched off.
Autopilot is great………for Pilots that is.
We operate in Zombie mode for a large part of our daily life. Totally oblivious of our surroundings, think of how much more we can get out of an experience by becoming consciously aware of our surroundings.
Practice! Switch on! Stop; lift your head at the traffic light (robots for us South Africans) look above the façades look at the layers of architecture, grime, and paint. Find the unusual, a gargoyle on the one building and a baboon statue on another.
The very same habit applies when out walking on the mountain. Practice awareness. Consciously take in your surroundings.
The curry smell from the bush you brushed against, the King Protea that’s in bud, the old cement casks (see if you can find that one, Table Mountain, Dams, ok no more clues)
By becoming fully conscious of our surroundings we become immersed in the experience and that bundle of stress we carry with us becomes lighter.
Ring any bells? You’ve left the house for a weekend away, driven 2 km’s down the road and you cannot remember whether the alarm had been set or the stove switched off.
Autopilot is great………for Pilots that is.
We operate in Zombie mode for a large part of our daily life. Totally oblivious of our surroundings, think of how much more we can get out of an experience by becoming consciously aware of our surroundings.
Practice! Switch on! Stop; lift your head at the traffic light (robots for us South Africans) look above the façades look at the layers of architecture, grime, and paint. Find the unusual, a gargoyle on the one building and a baboon statue on another.
The very same habit applies when out walking on the mountain. Practice awareness. Consciously take in your surroundings.
The curry smell from the bush you brushed against, the King Protea that’s in bud, the old cement casks (see if you can find that one, Table Mountain, Dams, ok no more clues)
By becoming fully conscious of our surroundings we become immersed in the experience and that bundle of stress we carry with us becomes lighter.
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