Let’s say you’re walking to the shop. Is your mental model for what’s happening:

A. The world is fixed, and the physical location of your body is moving within the world as you take each step, or B. You are fixed, and the world moves under/around you as you take each step

99-100% of people answer A.

Yet I find B to have some meaningful benefits.

When using A, I find I generally feel some amount of discontentment. If I’m in a rush then A shifts me to a framing of non-acceptance, where there’s currently a problem (I’m not at the place I’m trying to get to) and that problem won’t be resolved until I arrive there. The walking is a means to an end, and some contentment returns once I reach that end.

(Similarly if I’m running, with A as my mental model I’m escaping the feelings in my body and counting down to when I arrive).

With B, that totally shifts. My awareness remains in my body, and in what I can sense around me. I’m not in the wrong place (with the walk being a means to get to the right place)—rather the walking has become a goal unto itself. I recenter myself in the moment instead of resisting the moment in pursuit of some future moment.