Touch-up
“Touch has a memory.” — John Keats
This writing is Certified Human
The Obstacle
This runs parallel to yesterday’s journal.
The amount we use our visual cortex creates overload from constantly processing the visual world around us.
Yesterday, we talked about hearing.
Today, we’ll move on to another sense: the sense of touch.
Our visual life overloads us: the constant demand for evaluation, attention, threat detection, processing for desire and pleasure, finding judgment and fault, and simply navigating.
We can become overloaded with all the inputs coming in from the natural and unnatural world.
All things, people, companies, and media competing for our attention.
It’s easy to get fractured, being pulled in so many directions.
The Gift And Opportunity
We can shut it off, simply close our eyes and stop the input.
We can use other senses to give us a reset and allow our vision and the input to take a pit stop.
We can use our sense of touch to feel the texture, the temperature, and the undulation of anything around us.
We can drag our nail across the surface of our jeans or feel the hair on our head.
Anything within touch is worth exploring with a gentle touch that puts 100% of the focus on the object we are in contact with.
The Practice Of Self-Mastery
• Close the eyes
• Find something within touch
• Feel texture, temperature, and undulation
• Put 100% focus on the contact
CHEAT CODE: CLOSE THE EYES → TOUCH → FEEL → FOCUS
The Why
I, like most of us, am human, and humans are visual creatures.
What we see tells the story of our environment and allows us to quite literally take aim and focus on what’s in front of us.
I’m also distractible, restless, and easily overwhelmed by things that are not useful but entertaining.
Even among the useful, there is so much I could be doing at any given time that my attention easily gets fractured, moving from one thing, one task, one person, to the next.
Sometimes it’s hard to focus on anything in particular when there is so much that I could be doing and focusing on.
It helps to close my eyes once an hour or so and just let everything settle.
Let the visual signal and the noise that comes with it calm down and replace it, in this case, with my attention on the sense of touch.
It helps me reset.
I feel fresher and more focused when my eyes open again.
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