I am convinced that I am changing the wiring of my brain. The more I experience mindfulness, the easier it becomes. I think I am making new pathways in the neurons of my brain. This is allowing me to see and experience the world differently.
When I was born, my wiring was rather simple, and I learned how to see the world through experience. As time went on, pathways in the neurons were established, and my sense of time and space were developed. My sensory data was stored in a pattern that came from experience, over and over again. My wiring got more extensive and complex, as well as fixed.
By engaging in mindfulness, I am taking charge of the operations of my mind. I am living less and less in those stored images that make up my fantasy world. These are the familiar brain patterns that are suppose to help me make sense of the world. Some of that is changing. The illusions around me have less and less significance, as I am able to look through them at the reality lurking behind the illusions my brain has created. I look less and less at the sensory images as reality.
But first I have to reclaim control over my sensory images, pay careful attention to them as I back away. I need to develop an awareness that allows me to step back and watch my senses, not live in my senses. What I see and touch is not reality but an image of reality , developed and refined over years of practice. I am putting my mind back in charge, which is what happens in mindfulness or meditation. But first I have to watch my senses and pay attention to them, which is different from living in them.
All this new experience is rewiring my brain, laying out new pathways among all those neurons. I am beginning to know a little of what it is like to develop this new habit of mindfulness. My new wiring is taking over more and more. I clearly am seeing people and things in a new way, and it comes easier with time and practice.