Notio

Notio

I remember in high school, I'd be up late studying, cramming, trying to read whatever

chapters were assigned.

And I'd get to the end of paragraphs and recognize I hadn't retained any of it, couldn't even

remember reading it, even though my eyes were scanning the page and reading was happening,

I was not there.

I was thinking about the snack I wanted or worried truly about flunking the quiz or whatever

was coming up the next day.

Definitely not focused in the moment.

And that's the story of my life and the story of most people's lives.

I'm sure you can relate to that.

And what made me think about that is singing.

Like I love music and I sing along the music all the time.

And sometimes I'll start songs over because I missed them, that because someone was talking

over it and I'm trying to, you know, have a conversation, but because there is a dialogue

going on inside of me that the attention is on instead of the song.

And so today's challenge, not even really a practice, today's challenge is for you to

put on a song that you know the words to and challenge yourself to sing it, sing along

to it and stay with the hearing of the song and your singing.

Stay with the moment.

It sounds simple, simple enough, right?

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