Not For A Moment

Live in the Moment 1. Ways to Instantly Be Present. You cant help but be aware of your here and now if you intentionally and actively look, listen, smell, feel, or taste. To bring your awareness to the present in an instant, simply look at what is in your sight. Take note of persons, of animals, of whatever is moving, of whatever is lovely. Play cop and look for whatever is suspiciously out of place. Look about you with an artists eyes, noticing arrangements of color and form and what would be a good photograph or painting. Look with a parents eyes, seeing possibilities for play, danger, and teaching. Not For A Moment' title='Not For A Moment' />Look with a reporters eyes, asking yourself whats the story here. Just so, just listen. As I draft this paragraph, I hear a clock ticking and, from outside my apartment, the tires on pavement sound of passing cars. Not For A Moment' title='Not For A Moment' />I cant be attentive of the sounds I hear and be daydreaming at the same time. Perhaps where you are you hear a refrigerator motor, a bird call, a frog, the wind, your footsteps. Whatever you hear, or even if you are surrounded by silence, listen attentively just by doing that, you will be in the moment. Touch anything and note its feel. Just doing that will instantly bring your attention to the present. Enhance Views Hack. Touch several things with awareness a desk, a cell phone, a keyboard, a chair, a pet, whatever. Or take note of the feel of your weight, of gravity pulling you down, or of the feel of breeze on your skin, or of any sensation of warmth or cold. Then, aware of now, go about your business. Take note of the smells coming to you. I have a terrible sense of smell, so usually I cant smell anything, but just trying to smell whatever I can brings my attention to the present. Not For A Moment' title='Not For A Moment' />Define prejudice. English dictionary definition of prejudice. The act or state of holding. Technological change The last Kodak moment Kodak is at deaths door Fujifilm, its old rival, is thriving. Why Jan 14th 2012 NEW YORK AND TOKYO. Smell, when I do smell something, is the perception most likely to bring a nostalgic memory. A gasoline smell might bring a memory of my grandfathers Model A Ford a grass smell might bring a memory of mowing the lawn when I was a child growing up in an Illinois village a fish smell might bring childhood fishing memories. I welcome such memories, say an affectionate hello and good bye to them, so to speak, and then give attention to the smell in its present context. Being mindful of the lick of ice cream in your mouth is a fuller, more intense taste pleasure than will be your memory of the taste experience. Notice the good old days as they are going by now moment by moment. MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to.