You have been saying brochos for years. The words are correct. The timing is correct. You finish them and sometimes notice you were already somewhere else. When you do pay attention, it feels like a mechanical process.

The reason is usually in the way you were taught. You were taught to say brochos. It was not emphasized what they are for.

The frum world is rigorous about the halachos of brochos. Which brachah on which food. The timing. The shiurim. Almost none of this teaches what the brachah is supposed to do inside a person.

The Ramchal opens the Mesillas Yesharim with this exact problem. He does not start with a........

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