Has anyone else had a major perspective shift that changed how they see life?
Does anyone else feel like there was a point in their life where they stopped just reacting automatically and actually became aware of themselves in real time? I don’t really know how to explain it in words, but for most of my life I feel like I was just surviving. Just going with the flow, stressing constantly, distracting myself, blaming myself for everything, not understanding why I felt the way I did physically or mentally, just existing essentially.
Then over the last couple years something flipped like a switch and at that point I started observing myself instead of just being consumed by every thought and emotion immediately. I started noticing patterns in everything like how stress changes your body, how your environment changes your mood, how certain people drain you, how constantly talking bad about yourself actually changes your nervous system and overall state over time and once I started to see all this in a completely changed perspective I now see theres no looking back.
Now I find myself constantly wanting to learn about consciousness, psychology, the nervous system, nutrition, sensory processing, and so much more.. It’s kinda like I became aware of the systems underneath life instead of just living inside them unconsciously. What’s interesting is now I look around and see so many people suffering while being completely disconnected from themselves and I genuinely wonder how different life would be if more people became aware of how much their thoughts, environment, stress levels, nervous system, habits, and self talk all interact together and directly impact you as a being. Not just in some “just think positive” way either because life is obviously more complicated than that, I guess I just mean becoming aware enough to stop fighting yourself constantly and it makes me wonder sometimes... if enough people started becoming consciously aware like this at the same time, could it eventually create some kind of larger shift in humanity itself? Like a collective awakening toward understanding ourselves better instead of constantly living distracted, disconnected, reactive, and emotionally exhausted all the time?