3646: Where is Your Mind Right Now? By David Cain of Raptitude on Strategies to Reclaim Awareness

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[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_00] Das ist Optimal Living Daily. Wo ist dein Mind? Bei David Cain, von Raptitude.com Und ich bin Justin Malek. Wobei ich das Podcast mit Ihnen über die Mental Health und Selbst-Help topics wie Mindfulness, Happiness, Productivität und Minimalism. Und wir werden uns jetzt gleich zu unserem Posten als wir optimieren. Wo ist dein Mind? Bei David Cain, von Raptitude.com

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00] Amazing, ist es? Das war eine andere, die ich mir nicht so verabschiedet habe. Aber wenn ich mich auf, warst du sie, die Old Man war smiling und gestern, und gestern, und hat either missed oder ignored die minor injustice, die mich so appallt. The sarcastic tone I heard in his comment belonged entirely to my train of thought. He meant only what he said. I still don't know exactly why he bothered to stop and say that to me unless my preoccupied

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00] state was obvious to him even through my poker face and sunglasses, and he knew exactly what to say to reset my perspective. After speaking to me, he turned back to the ocean and I followed his gaze. It was too ordinary for a postcard, blue sky, blue ocean, no clouds, but had me like the dancing plastic bag in American Beauty. My train of thought had been effectively derailed and I was able to forget myself for a moment

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_00] thanks to that random man who said the right thing at the right time. I had been totally lost for most of the day. It was like when a noisy fan clicks off which you never realize was running until the moment it no longer is, leaving the most unexpected silent silence. I believe life with that noisy fan is the normal state of human consciousness. This was my 30th day on the coast of Australia. I'd been on the beach every day.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_00] It was a sunny one like most of them, and at a casual glance this ocean scene wasn't especially captivating, particularly for coastal Australians who see it every day. Yet, he was completely taken in, and so was I. Thought-killing moments like that do happen, but often it takes something that's particularly forceful on one's attention. A flaming sunset, say, is exclusive and dramatic enough to wrest anyone's attention away from

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_00] their preoccupations, at least for the fleeting few minutes when it's at its loudest visually. But just as often, I've looked at something much more ordinary at the precise moment my head chatter cuts out and found myself captivated in the exact same way. A dog sniffing a curb, an old playing card in a garbage can, a swirl in my coffee. There's an unmistakable significance that can be seen in all of them, but usually we're not really looking.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00] This kind of moment has been happening more and more often. The most encouraging part of it is that it doesn't seem to matter what the content of the scene is, only whether I'm aware enough to absorb it without assessing its implications to my personal interests. When my interests and preferences aren't informing the picture, when I'm not looking at it in terms of what it's adding or taking away from me, it's like I can watch it without being there.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_00] I'm alive and aware without the normal heaviness of being a needy, self-obsessed human being. That is where beauty is found. I know now that this captivating quality is always there to be seen, not just in classically picturesque locations like beaches, but in parking lots, produce aisles, snowbanks, and people's faces. But it can only be noticed when thinking isn't the prominent feature of the landscape.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00] This state is an anomaly for almost everyone, but I think we all know it to some degree as an occasional acquaintance. Trains of thought seem to be bent on creating new ones constantly. I suspect that for most of us, our thinking is the prominent feature of the landscape almost all of the time. Our thinking is such a prominent feature of nearly every scene we witness, it can be hard to imagine that we can still be there to see the world when thought isn't around.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00] Indeed, most people probably live and die without ever detecting a distinction between their thinking minds and themselves. Next time you think of it, ask yourself, where is my mind right now? Where has it been this last hour? Are my thoughts the prominent feature in my current landscape? I'm convinced that this same captivating significance is present in every scene, waiting to speak to you whenever you offer it my chance. It's unbelievably patient.

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[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00] Thank you to David. I really like that analogy of our internal chatter being like a noisy fan that's always running in the background. It's so true. We get so used to it that we don't even notice it's there until for some reason it just clicks off and everything gets quiet. His story about the stranger on the boardwalk reminded me of something that happened a while ago. I had to have a notary come over to my place for some paperwork. It was just, you know, a normal transactional kind of thing.

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_00] My mind was probably a million miles away thinking about my to-do list and so on. That noisy fan was definitely on high. Now as I was signing, the notary saw where I wrote down my job, Optimal Living Daily, and he paused and said, hey, that's a podcast, right? I listen to that all the time. It completely caught me off guard. It was like David's experience on the boardwalk. It just derailed my entire train of thought. For a few minutes, we weren't just signing papers.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00] We were two people connecting over something unexpected. The noisy fan of my worries and responsibilities just stopped. It was such a nice moment of being pulled into the present by a simple random comment. It really shows how those moments can happen anywhere. So a really good reminder to ask ourselves today, where is my mind right now? With that, thank you for being here and having your mind here right now.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_00] Hope you have a great rest of your day and I'll see you tomorrow, where your optimal life awaits.