Eight Things to do Today to Make Yourself More Aware

1. Breathe. Breathing stimulates nearly every sense in your body. It brings oxygen into your lungs and then into your blood system and to your brain. Deep breaths deeply breathed do even more of this sort of thing. Its awesome. Totally breathe.

2. When you walk down the street, look behind you a couple of times. Just see what's there. There might be people or an interesting accident you just missed or a just nothing at all. The most interesting would be nothing at all because then you would know that your grip on reality is either A) slipping, or B) suddenly greatly enhanced. Make sure you stretch first.

3. Drink caffeine. Caffeine really has a lot of caffeine in it and we all know what caffeine does. It really caffeinates. So drink something with heaps of caffeine in it and let your senses explode! (Hint: try caffeine with whipped cream.)

4. Pinch yourself. Hard. Thirty , maybe forty times.

5. Read the 3rd page of the A section in the New York Times. There is always an interesting international human interest story that will give you something to think about. I would say listen to NPR as well, but reading really stimulates the reading senses better.

6. Take a photo.

7. Do a hand stand.

8. Turn off all the lights in your office and hide under the desk. When someone walks into your room, flip on the light switch (hopefully you have the clapper) and yell "Surprise!" as loud as you can. This will greatly enhance your awareness of surprising people in unexpected and spectacular ways.

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