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While walking, whether in a park, on the way to the subway, around your house, or at work, you can experiment with your perception of The Now. | While walking, whether in a park, on the way to the subway, around your house, or at work, you can experiment with your perception of The Now. | ||
* '''Typical Walking''' - As you move around, notice how easy it is to think of this moment as a journey that connects us to where we've just been, and where we're going next. Things around us are in motion, and are changing the whole time, and we are navigating through our world. | |||
* '''Conveyor belt''' - Shift your perception to the sense that you are standing still, and the world is moving. Perhaps the world is a treadmill, and you are merely "keeping up" with its motion. Or perhaps you are standing still and the world is morphing or warping in a way that brings things closer to you or farther from you. | * '''Conveyor belt''' - Shift your perception to the sense that you are standing still, and the world is moving. Perhaps the world is a treadmill, and you are merely "keeping up" with its motion. Or perhaps you are standing still and the world is morphing or warping in a way that brings things closer to you or farther from you. | ||
* '''Timeless walking''' - Notice a fixed marker such as a light pole, and as you walk towards it, shift your perception to the sense that you are in fact not walking at all, because without any "time" beyond the now, you will simply always be as close to that marker as you are, and there is no change in that distance, because each moment exists independently, and each "new now" simply exists with its own facts about reality. | * '''Timeless walking''' - Notice a fixed marker such as a light pole, and as you walk towards it, shift your perception to the sense that you are in fact not walking at all, because without any "time" beyond the now, you will simply always be as close to that marker as you are, and there is no change in that distance, because each moment exists independently, and each "new now" simply exists with its own facts about reality. | ||