Every waking moment, we’re being bombarded with sensory input — colors, shapes, sounds, aromas, things we touch, and several times a day, things we taste.
For most of the time, these “experiences” pass just about unnoticed…but when we stop for a moment and focus on a particular sensory input, the experience changes — becomes richer, more complete, and sometimes can be recalled later.
Of course, we’d go nuts if we tried to grasp everything going on around us. But, from time to time, it does really make life more fulfilling to “stop and smell the roses”.
Try an experiment: concentrate on one sense, and then think about what that experience brings to mind; what memory it evokes…
Then let go of it, and concentrate on another sense, and do the same thing.
When you focused your attention, how did the experience change?