9. Slow Time
We are not supposed to miss this moment. Awareness is humanity’s best weapon against time. So let us always remember our capacities to be gifted time benders.
To slow down the moment, we must heighten our senses. To feel something more, we must either take more in, or more deeply sense that which is already here.
- Touch more things around us. Feel the textures.
- We should love the sounds in our ears: the car driving by; the house finch trilling in the birch tree; the beautiful, unique voice speaking to us.
- Appreciate the food
- Look at things like for the first time
- etc ...
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