Seeing More

Do you feel like something is there, swirling around you, whether it’s a change or knowledge or insight, but you can’t quite see what it is?

 
This seems to be a time of shifts and transformations, and I think a big part of that shift is in our perspective and how we see things. It seems to me like things are coming into focus, and we are able to see more… this could be an awareness of old patterns or habits that don’t sit right anymore, or clearly seeing that we are not treating ourselves with the respect that we deserve, or understanding what our next steps are and that they may be different to what we originally thought.

 
I get the sense though that this clarity comes to us not by looking directly at it, or for it, but by allowing it to come to us. Kind of like when you’re trying to remember a word and it’s on the tip of your tongue, but it only comes when you stop searching for it. The harder you try, the further away it gets from your grasp.

 
And how frustrating can that be? When you know something is right there, you can sense it, and sometimes see it in your peripheral vision, but when you try to see the full picture it just doesn’t come into focus. You feel so close! You’ve nearly got it… but still it eludes you.

 
We don’t have to go digging, because what we need to see and know will come into focus for us when it needs to. The way to see more is not to try to see, but to give ourselves the kind of space where things can emerge and settle into focus themselves. More information and clarity will come to us this way if we allow it, and it will be clearer and truer than when we force it.

Give yourself the gift of 2 minutes of silence, closing your eyes and tuning into your body.
What sensations do you discover?
Still with your eyes closed, what do you sense beyond your physical body?

Allowing yourself time to be with these sensations, without bringing your mind in to analyse them, is helping to create a space where they can be nurtured to clarity.

 
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” Ben Franklin