You Will 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've wasted a lot of energy and your fist is likely to clench back up as soon as you're not looking. Noticing is a quiet kind of attentive openness that encourages our natural openness so that it can expand. That expanded non-judgmental state gives you insight into how it's the process of trying itself that creates our bad habits. But that insight doesn't usually arrive as a resounding revelation. It's more like a gentle release. Like a whisper escaping from inside a soap bubble with a tiny POP!