What are you not noticing?

This is one of those questions that has been posed since the 70’s, starting (afaik) with Richard Bandler, and pouring from many an NLP trainer since.

But what does it actually mean?

I remember back to when I was a young kid, and as I look back on that time, I realise now, all the things that I didn’t notice back then, that I’m so aware of now.

But while I step inside that time, I also realise a lot of things that I was aware of back then, things that I did notice, things that we’re so important, and I notice that many of these things are the same things I’ve become so unaware of as I’ve grown.

Wondering how to get back inside that space, to begin noticing the simple pleasures that a child has, causes me to ask the question….what am I not noticing?

Whilst doing the master prac course over in Mexico, and discovering new ways of being able to notice what wasn’t being noticed before, I began to realise just how possible it is, that there are other things in life that are going by unseen, unheard, unfelt and unknown.

As I sat in my room, thinking about nothing, staring at the computer screen, not really noticing anything, not even trying, I felt a feeling that I haven’t felt for some time. I remember what the feeling does, and I remember how I can use it, but I hadn’t noticed it for quite some time, and if I had, then I’d pushed it away.

I began at that time, to really focus on that feeling, and decided to see what would happen if I increased it and made it stronger and more powerful. As I began doing this, I noticed each feeling begin to appear in front of me as a visual reflection of the feelings themselves, and an adventure began into a place that I’ve rarely been before.

I started to write what I saw, and it was difficult. Trying to take a thousand rays of light, and they spin and wind around your mind, as you soar over each particle of dust that caresses the light as it shines through the window, is not the easiest of experiences to put into words.

So I stopped thinking about words, and I continued to write. I wrote whatever words decided to stream through my mind, and out of my fingers. Was this a type of creativity I hadn’t noticed I was capable of before?

Whilst we trained in Mexico, we did a lot of work on sensory acuity. We began to notice things in our own, and other peoples communication, that had previously been completely out of consciousness. We learned how to know the sub-modalities of the pictures other people were making, we learned how to hear more than what people were just saying, and we learned how to really notice what was going on around us. More importantly than all these things, we learned how to allow ourselves to receive this information.

Learning how to let go, to stop getting in our own way, and to let ourselves notice what we weren’t noticing even a moment ago, is a skill that can be so powerful, and so useful.

Thinking about what I was I did as a child to notice all the wonderful things I did, it soon becomes clear, that its less about what I did do, and more about what I didn’t.

As children, we don’t get in our own way so much, we don’t try to analyse everything so much, and we let information flow into us like streams of warm air on a hot summers day.

So I ask you, What are you not noticing, right now, and in each area of your life.

How much more joy could you be living, and passing onto other people. How much creativity do you have just waiting to be explored and how much….and much of that....

What are you not noticing?

Jamie Dixon
The_final_call@msn.com