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For most of us, the sense of
being fully alive does not come automatically. We gradually learn to do
the things that cause us to feel alive. The learning experience is different for
all of us. We have to discover for ourselves what it is that causes the
sense of aliveness. We have to be willing to experiment. Sometimes
long habits of unconsciousness block out your memories of what caused you to
feel alive in the past.
Reflect on your past. What
were the experiences in your life that caused you to feel most joyful and most
awake? It also helps to experiment with new experiences in the present.
This requires some imagination
and a willingness to try something different, perhaps even to do things you have
never tried before.
Being alive would include paying
attention to what the present moment is actually offering to us. That
alone would bring a richness to the present that we often miss. Much of
our live passes us by without affecting us because often we are only half
awake.
We can deepen the sense of being
alive, but only if we pay some attention to what we are feeling at the present
moment, recapture what was good from the past, and broaden our vision as to what
is possible in the future.
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