What a surprise the other sunday. I was making a little walk (15 min) around the block. I had just read before that an article on old protected trees in the country. So my look was apparently programmed to look at trees. I did not put the mode on consciously obviously, it just did happen.
In these 15 min walk, I was just amazed, how many different trees there were. Despite the fact that I live in the center of town since over 10 years. Depending on the cities you might need to walk a little bit more, but astonishingly, there is alway a park around the block. In London, New York, Milan or Zurich.
This is called: "Steering the direction of the attention". In other words, what we look for, we see.
I did not count the different trees exactly, but there were at least 50 different species and I could not name them (therefore looked up in an encyclopedia at home: learning always learning).
What is potentially just beside you and you cannot currently see?
Try to look at the trees around your place for example. Perhaps it might lead your attention to something of more interest in a second step, who knows...
This is also a great exercise to practice to simply distance ourselves from the daily activities or a intense day. It allows to "LOOK DIFFERENTLY" at the world.
Good discovery I wish you!
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