Practice becoming more consciously aware of your present environment. What sights, sounds, odors are present in your environment right now that you are not conscious of?
Consciously practice looking and listening. Become alert to the feel of objects. How long since you have really felt the pavement beneath your feet as you walk? The American Indian and the early pioneers had to be alert to the sights and sounds and feels in their environment in order to survive. So does modern man, but for a different reason: Not because of physical dangers, but because of the dangers of "nervous disorders" which come from confused thinking, from failure to live creatively and spontaneously, and to respond appropriately to environment.
This becoming more aware of what is happening now, and attempting to respond only to what is happening now, has almost magical results in relieving the "jitters." The next time you feel yourself tensing up, becoming jittery and nervous—pull yourself up short and say, "What is there here and now that I should respond to? that I can do something about?" A great deal of nervousness is caused from unwittingly "trying" to do something that cannot be done here or now. You are geared for action or for "doing" which cannot take place.
Keep constantly in mind that the job of your creative mechanism is to respond appropriately to present environment—here and now. Many times, if we do not "stop and think" about this, we continue to react automatically to some past environment. We do not react to the present moment, and the present situation, but to some similar event out of the past. In short we do not react to reality —but to a fiction. Full recognition of this, and realization of what you're doing, can frequently bring about an amazingly quick "cure."
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