SUMMARY OF CENTRAL EXERCISES
At best – go outside – where things are moving and changing randomly... surprisingly... amazingly... sit down for stability, and if you wear glasses, take them off.
Seeing
Find a boring, neutral, and motionless area straight ahead, a blank wall, or a monotonous area of sky, anything which has no focal point, and look at it.
Then, don't move your head or your eyes to focus on them, but be aware of any specific features round the periphery of the oval shape of your field of vision. Then just wait and watch anything and everything happening within the entire oval shape.
Listening
Listen-out for changes. Listen-out for sudden sounds, nearby and in the distance. This is pre-emptive listening, ready and waiting for the first sign of anything new.
It is often useful to listen-out for children and dogs. At night for hedgehogs and owls. You might not hear them, that's irrelevant, listening-out for them is the vital part.
Going Panoramic
At first, do the listening and seeing separately. Then combine them.
Do these two exercises for just one minute as well as you can, at least once a day, and repeat frequently, whenever you want to.
It may be more practical to think in terms of five minutes a day. Do it once, have a cup of tea, and then do it again.
Short periods of intense practice replicate the immediacy animals feel. The repetitive impulse of short regular periods of stimulation act as a catalyst: they are the best way to tell your subconscious "it's time to remember".
Once you can do it, you may well want to do it for longer periods.
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