By There is nothing more fulfilling than making and watching a video. It makes us laugh, it makes us cry, and it makes us feel all different emotions at once. Watching a video is like being taken in a foreign country. We are able to see new things, we are able to see the old things that we have missed before, and we are able to see ourselves through the eyes of someone else. Watching a video is also a form of meditation.
The ability to watch a video is also one of the oldest forms of meditation, dating back to the ancient civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia. In fact, it was during this period that the first recorded recorded instance of meditation was recorded and we know this because it was the first time we had a video recorder that could record sound.
The ancient Indian philosopher Patanjali taught that watching a video is a form of meditation, as it is a way to connect to the non-human, as opposed to seeing the world from the perspective of the human. So one of the interesting things that we find while watching videos is that we are, in a way, watching ourselves. We see the same thing we see in our own minds as well as the world around us.
Watching a video has a similar effect as a dream when you are not paying attention. For example, we will see people in our dream appear in our dreams. But in the same way that we can often tell if someone is a friend or not, we can sometimes tell if someone is dreaming.
In the same way that the world around us looks similar to our own mind, we can also see the world around us in the same way. For example, we can see through a window without being aware of it. We can see through a mirror without realizing it. We can see through a glass of wine without noticing that it’s not actually a glass. We can see through a screen without seeing it. We can see through a window of a museum without noticing it.
If you’re interested in more information on this, you can check out my book, The Unwinding: An Exploration of the Self. It’s an exploration of the nature of self-awareness and the way that we can often see our surroundings in our own mind and in other people’s minds.
I had a friend ask me about this a few months ago, and I responded with, “I can’t see myself”. I laughed it off as the fact that my brain wasn’t working right, but it turns out that I was really talking about the “wiring” of my brain.
The fact is that we see the world and we do things we are unaware of. We are aware of our surroundings, so how do we know if something is really happening around us? What is it that we’re seeing? How do we know what is real and what is imagined? And most importantly, we have to be able to do the hard work of connecting to the world around us. This is where the process of self-awareness and meta-cognition come into play.
The idea of self-awareness and meta-cognition is a little counterintuitive, but it’s a very, very important concept to understand. The fact is, our bodies are wired to respond to our surroundings, so we can sometimes see things differently than we actually do. What we’re seeing through our eyes, what we see through our eyes, is just the way it actually is. You see the world differently than you do because your eyes are wired to the brain that sees it.
The goal of self-awareness and meta-cognition is to learn to see and know everything we see. The thing that’s not good about self-awareness and meta-cognition is that your brain isn’t just wired to tell you where to look for things. The brain is wired to respond to that world.
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