Wednesday Wisdom. Awareness Changes Everything — From Physics to the Nervous System to the Heart of Your Experience

QiSong
Jan 7
2 min read

Awareness is not passive.

It participates.

In the double-slit experiment, https://youtu.be/A9tKncAdlHQ?si=T5Bu6BJi7ceyuZ9S

Light moves like a wave - unfixed, potential-filled - until it is observed. The very act of observation changes its behaviour, collapsing possibility into form. Nothing is forced.

Nothing is controlled.

It simply responds when seen.

Modern neuroscience quietly echoes this truth.

Your nervous system doesn’t deliver reality as it “is.”

It creates perception - translating light, sound, touch and internal signals into what you experience as life. What you focus on becomes what you perceive. What you perceive becomes emotion and behaviour.

That’s not poetic. That’s physiology.

In other words:

the act of paying attention shapes your internal state.

I didn’t fully feel this until I lived it.

Working with my coach and mentor, I began to notice how fear was moving through me — not as anxiety, but as that familiar inner script: managerial stinking thinking.

Subtle criticism.

Quiet judgement.

The need to foresee, control, and correct before anything had even begun.

From the outside, it looked like competence.

Inside, it felt constricted.

And what shifted everything wasn’t a pep talk or a new strategy - it was awareness.

The moment I became aware of this pattern in my body - the tension in the belly, the tightness in the shoulders - my system didn’t resist. My nervous system responded. Just like light in the experiment, the pattern softened once it was seen.

Now, when that familiar edge arises, I pause.

I take a breath.

I ask my body what it’s feeling - not what it’sthinking.

I feel the sensation before the story.

And in that moment of attention, something releases.

Fear doesn’t dissolve through effort.

It softens through awareness.

Criticism becomes information.

Judgement becomes sensation.

Control becomes choice.

This is the quiet work of Qisong — where embodied awareness meets nervous system science and lived experience.

Awareness as medicine.

Presence as change.

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