Yes, maybe they wanted to teach you to use the senses to get in touch with the real content.
Actually one of my favorite quotes from A Course in Miracles is:

Nothing so blinding as perception of form.

Perception is projection, so all we can perceive is only the content of our mind.
So even when you are "being in life" you never leave your own (universal) Mind. You are literally touching yourself, since ideas leave not their source
Thank you, Linda! 🙏