 My thought for today is something that I'm really beginner in and it's just a brief mention of a whole world of a topic and it's the idea of awareness consciousness the senses and How do we How do we organize them? How do we see them? How do we see ourselves? Well, how do we? perceive our being our existence where we where we fit and The idea is that It's so normal for us to Really just by default see the center of our universe as our heads and you know, it makes perfect sense. You know, we have You know four out of our five senses in terms of External perception are in our head So why wouldn't we see that as the center? I mean if we're looking at something It's centered on our eyes. We're hearing something. It's centered on our ears and of course, we have this brain in our heads where all this thinking goes on and so it's completely understandable to see the head is the center and It's not entirely false But it is incomplete I have absolutely Gone down the road of being in my head to an extreme degree It's very helpful for escapism to sort of concoct fantasy imagination in our minds and separate from our real surroundings And I've always enjoyed being highly cerebral Often to extreme degrees almost like the the alien head In in a in a vat that is sort of a just sort of a discombobulated this, you know disembodied head Just a pure brain You know, there's there's something about that that's attractive to me and is certainly when I was younger This kind of pure cerebra pure cerebraness Is something that I've gone very far into and but I've also paid the price for that in the neglect of my body in the the almost like a tyranny of Being overly cerebral where our thoughts become tyrants over ourselves Trying to make the world the way that we want it to make reality the way that we imagine it Even flying in the face of what the world is actually telling us and what our bodies are telling us Living in this concocted Convoluted thought world and that is The extreme of this kind of head consciousness where we focus our consciousness in our head in our brain in our thoughts and You know when somebody is you know has no Brain, you know, it's not it's not like it. It's not like this is all a bad thing. It's not all bad it's it's just the extreme of it and the idea that This is the only way that is the mistake that I have fallen into and I'm recently becoming more open to Alternative ways of kind of centering our perception I was fascinated to hear of This idea that it's possible to Imagine your gut as being the center And we have that in the sense of feeling your gut you get a gut feeling and You know, I imagine, you know, maybe for for many people. This is Natural and certainly the heart we can have a sort of a heart center If we sort of the feelings coming from our chest and from our heart Or we sort of feel like the center of our being and Maybe some of this is completely obvious To many to many listeners Because it's just and maybe it's just for me that my Living in the head has gone this far, but I know I'm not the only one who has This propensity to live in the head So much of our environment conditions us to that all this kind of Mentally based labor were often removed from physical labor We're living in chairs and watching screens and that is highly highly mental brain head activity and We're being very highly stimulated We're just it just seems to be Part of the default state of the modern person is just this hyper stimulation that is Filling our senses filling our minds Pictures words sounds and It's keeping us focused in the head and And so much of all the movements and programs and Therapies and ideas that are trying to help with the problems of this of This over this this living in the head Which is spawned whole whole Whole worlds whole movements whole systems all devoted to how do we get out of our head? and it seems like a big part of that is if We cut down on the stimulation if we have this silence and this space We can then actually have feelings from our body and actually let This sort of internal sense speak to us It's like our body our hearts our guts can and our bodies can can be speaking to us and They are communicating subtle senses to us all the time But because we are so So distracted focused on or in entranced by these Mental stimuli all the words and sounds and pictures and Everything that's that's coming at us We tune out of The body so This is simply the beginning of Moving in this direction, and it's just it's it's it's simply noticing I'm just noticing how big a thing this is. I don't actually have a Solution for this, but for my first step I will I will Well, there's the continuing the continuing search for more silence than the continuing pursuit of simplicity To leave more room for this and Simply the feeling of Letting myself have the feeling of just just reminding myself that I have a body Yeah, maybe that is just something as simple as that can be highly powerful. Let's just remember Remind ourselves. Hey, I have a body and simply feel the body and It's obvious as that is I Bet it's not something many of us will Regularly think about if we're living up in the world of the head So as somebody who has had an extreme case of living in the brain I Now undertake to See what can be done to simply Let the center of my consciousness be my heart my gut my body let the brain Move to the side so the brain as important as it is Let the brain not Be the center of the universe Let's let our body be the center of the universe of our Personal universe of our of our consciousness Let the body be the center Imagine what life is like from that perspective