How Do You Become Aware Of The Familiar?

Question

JUST ME: I don't want to confuse you :-)
Though is much is born from such a state...

Think how we take for granted the softness of our bed...or the harshness of an abusive relationship when these become familiar...

Answer 1

you remind yourself to see beyond your first impression...to feel the beauty and to understand the depth......then when you begin to shift...relax and just know, there is always more than meets the eye.....always another way to look at something, interpret the meaning of something or the choice to change your mind about something.


love yourself for taking some things for granted at times.....there is a time for everything.

your question suggests you are aware of the possibility of looking at things in new ways....trust your heart......the biggest miracle in life is the awareness we as humans can dream....can imagine, can express the possibilities of the life force...of love. If you are wanting refreshing....be still and listen.....let it come.......you are onto the joy of life......"realization of possibility" go for it....see the pattern that connects.

Answer 2

I really do this, and it benefits me:

I imagine that I have already lived my whole life and it is over -- I have died. And now, before my soul or what have you goes on to whatever is next, I get a chance to go back in time an re-live an entirely random moment of my life. Not to change anything, not even to evaluate or judge it. I'm dead, and I get to go back to a random of my life, just to see what it was like to be me. And that moment ... is this one.

That little exercise is largely inspired by the fact that I did come very close to dying once as a child, in a near drowning. And when I had just been resuscitated, before I could remember my name, it was so stunningly obvious that the fact anything at all was happening -- staring as I was at the "familiar" grass a few inches from my face -- was an utter miracle. Just because it was there.
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Answer 3

Plato would tell you to look closer at it and hope that you would recognize it the next time you see it again. (Republic)

I would say think about it.

And if by any chance this has a paranormal aspect to the question, try looking in a dark doorway at exactly 3:33 and see if you recognize anything. That is when you may witness your familiar.

But if "the familar" is just that which you see day to day, concentrate on that fact and you may learn what it is you are not seeing.

Answer 4

By seeking not to take whoever or whatever for granted; by seeing with our hearts and not just our eyes.The theme of my favorite play "Our Town" ( which won the Pulitzer Prize) is about the importance of really LIVING every day while we're above ground. At the end of the play, that is what the dead of the town realize and discuss, each in their own way.Not at all morbid, and so very true.

Answer 5

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We establish some invisible but sure association with all perceptions ( like things / faces / places / persons / events/ matters / sensations etc etc ) that are familiar to us.

When something comes to our mind, it strikes a chord in our brain / consciousness.

So, volutarily & automatically, we become aware of the Familiar.

Here is a simple life-example: When we see someone's face, it strikes us that we've seen that face before. The impressions our perceptions make in our minds are indelible though we may not be able to recall them fully or even partly but anyhow, we become aware of them.
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Answer 6

G.K. Chesterton once wrote that this was the whole power of fairy tales. They "echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water."
- Orthodoxy, Ch. 4

Answer 7

By being present, by being here now. By practicing being an observer, & by staying mindful. By questioning everything I see, looking beyond what is obivious about what I see & reading between the lines. By keeping an open mind, realizing that maybe I don't really know this person, place, or thing at all, but have only reacted with assumptions. By looking at everything & everyone with wonder & awe, to have the eyes of a child. Thanks, love your questions. (((HUG)))

Answer 8

Stop operating on auto pilot and wake up to each moment. We don't realize how zoned out we are to the routine of our lives, and we forget to see all the beauty that is right before us in every moment.

Answer 9

Do things more slowly. When washing the cup, , notice the bubbles, feel the smoothness of the cup, its shape, color, depth..... Notice too the turn of your hand, the movement of your shoulder..the heat or cool of the water....be in the moment.
cheers.

Answer 10

if it is familiar, then I am already aware?? i confused myself thinking too long on this one lol