The Natural Human’s Guide to Perception: How to Feel Life Again

About the Book

How you feel does not merely affect your relationships and quality of life. More importantly, it affects the life you are experiencing in every minute, every second. And countless moments accumulated over time eventually become your life.

This book will not lead you to spiritual enlightenment. It does not offer a system of success principles that guarantees you will accomplish all your goals. Nor does it provide some “scientific proof” that will make you believe in it without a doubt. It is simply a collection of easy-to-start “perception techniques” that the author, Sin Bay, gradually developed through more than a decade of life experience and personal experimentation.

What Natural Human Perception Techniques seeks to do is to help you, much like a practitioner of meditation, discover and observe how you actually experience things through the use of simple perception techniques. Through practical experimentation, you may gradually discover that many factors—including “time,” “attention,” “values,” “self-awareness,” “knowledge,” and “ability”—can influence how you feel.

As you gradually experience how these factors affect your own feelings, you can also begin to adjust them intentionally, allowing the familiar world to produce entirely different experiences. You may discover that “how you feel” is itself a skill—something that can be learned, practiced, and consciously changed.

As you repeatedly apply the ideas in this book, a complete “perception system framework” will gradually take shape in your mind. With this framework, you can use your own subjective experience to make connections more quickly and intuitively, extending the framework into many different areas of perception and experience, such as art appreciation, relationships, travel, creative work, religious practice, spiritual growth, and more.

For example, if you want to experience greater happiness, you can use the perception techniques in this book to become more sensitive to happiness—to notice and experience it more easily. At the same time, you can build your own “happiness assets” through experience, knowledge, ability, and other means. Or, if you are a religious practitioner, you can use the perception techniques in this book to explore more deeply how you experience things, observe your own experiences, reflect on yourself, and support your own spiritual practice.

Natural Human Perception Techniques is an attempt to describe a perception framework centered on subjectivity. Like a powerful lever, it can expand the richness of your experiences. And if you happen to live in an age filled with intelligent machines and semi-mechanical humans, then, as someone who possesses a Natural Human body, you can also use the techniques in this book to experience once again what it feels like to be a Natural Human.

For any Natural Human, Natural Human Perception Techniques does not want to become the protagonist of your life. It is more like an important supporting character. You do not need to use it every day, nor do you need to turn it into another task that must be completed. You only need to return, at certain moments, to the way of experiencing the world that belongs to a “Natural Human.”