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Well good on you for your effort. I know it sounds silly but one of the things I find helpful to live more in the moment is to take a moment to describe the world around me.
Like i am in a 10' by 13' room that has a bookcase on the far wall. The walls are painted light blue. I feel the slight breeze from the fan. Also describe how you are currently feeling.
It's really hard at first as the vocabulary for those feelings are hard to come by but it gets easier the more you practice. Most people that are on autopilot don't feel anything so trying to describe how you feel and describing where your environment. Breaks you out of autopilot.
@[email protected] That's intriguing! I'll see if I like doing this in my obsidian daily note :) My daily note consists of a list of timestamps which I used a template to automatically place in my bullet pointed daily-note lists, each timestamp has a thought that I have next to it usually, so I'll try incorporating those descriptions you're talking about into that!
Cool yeah also note it's not like a once a day thing. You could be out and about at the grocery store. The idea is to remind yourself like set an alarm if you have to. To just pause for a moment the idea is you are trying to take in the sights , sounds, and feelings in that moment and store therm in long term memory. Internal narration helps draw a more vivid picture for long term storage. That way the year does not fly by. When you go from task to task.