BoredBaby1284LIVING IN A WORLD OF BLAH!

I have been thinking a lot about how the brain ‘normalises’ things so effectively.

This is great if you are living in a slum, but not so great if you have everything, and slowly become desensitized to just how fortunate you are.

So why do we still complain about our lot, or not appreciate what we have ?

Well the truth is, its both natural and preventable
The way this actually works is, feel good chemicals that make us ‘feel lucky, happy, grateful etc ’ actually deplete after firing in certain patterns for extended periods.

So the more you initially feel about something the more exhausted they get, and eventually the less we start to feel.

This is how things we would have walked over broken glass to have and hold become normal boring everyday object or individuals over time, if we do not learn to see them in different ways.

So now we know WHY this happens. We can do something about it and start appreciating what we have again.

Living without, often reminds us of what we are missing. But so does physically taking a moment to view mundane things in a different way.

One of the Gurus we met on the road said that he imagines his heart is connecting with the ‘thing or person’.

“When you open your heart to an object. Even something as mundane as a pen or a sofa. Yes you feel pretty silly at first. But give it time. Keep looking at it and imagining you are loving it, and you’ll suddenly have a rush of rememberance for how it has quietly served you over the years. Or for the role it plays, humbly in the background of your life – Its then a strange rush of gratitude comes over you and you may even get a tear in your eye.”

Sounds nut??? Sure – But it works, and whats the option ? Living in a world of blah !

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