The beauty of focusing on your senses - Eating an orange over 40 minutes

I'll spend hours a day focusing on what our senses bring when it comes to amusement and exploration. Like children who come up with games to play while waiting for their parents to show up, who may or may not have forgotten them in a quiet park. You can simply sit, and use your senses to feed the mind.

This is beyond the daily intake of your surroundings, more than simply skidding your eyes over objects, and sitting while thinking about next week's problems. To focus all your thoughts on one thing, one sense, one can derive so much more feeling and connection than one may have had before.

Have you ever eaten an orange over the course of 40 minutes? Closing your eyes, in a quiet room, exploring the taste and texture of orange on your tongue, between your teeth and on the roof of your mouth. This is no longer eating for sustenance, or even eating for pleasure, this is eating to explore. There is a beauty to oranges, and another way to explore that beauty is by blocking out all other senses and simply discover the characteristics of a slice of orange. You may even feel emotions to the way it tastes, images to the way it's texture feels.

Connecting with senses leaves me with a canvas or an open room of emotions, being filled more and more. I want to concentrate and explore the surroundings of my everyday life. Between me and my paper is air, and little peripheral vision. But then there is sound. To hear the little details your ear picks up which your brain generally blocks out, to hear this is almost a song. My pen is the underlying beat to the sound of a silent classroom. Which in reality is filled with so much sound that your ear is incredibly occupied.