You'll Miss The Whisper If You're Waiting For A Shout

The purpose of Noticing is not to break habits. Trying to break a habit is like trying to pry open a clenched fist with your free hand. Even if you manage to do it, you have wasted a lot of energy and as soon as you get the fist open it is likely to clench right back up when you're not looking. Noticing is a quiet kind of attentive openess that nutures your intrinsic openess so that it can expand. That expanded non-judgmental stance allows you insight into how the whole process of trying culminates in those things we call our bad habits. That information, however, does not usually arrive as a resounding revelation but rather as a gentle release. It's a little like a whisper escaping suddenly from inside a soap bubble. ShhhPop.