Confused? Worried? Use spiritual vision.

Every day we start again.  But what to weed and what to feed?  This COVID-19 world is the pressure cooker du jour but when were we not immersed in it and confused by it? 

(It being life's changes...)

Hey, it's the human journey. But, using our Higher vision (that of the Higher self, our spiritual Self) we can see beyond the appearance of things...It orients us to what DOES NOT CHANGE (the Eternal & evergreen) and gives us clarity.

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
           – Marcel Proust,
         The Captive 1871-1922

Shift the story...

How about shifting to some more interesting story?
See with spiritual vision and celebrate the simple blessings right in front of you. If we are aware of what stories we are living, we can use them to grow a better now. But if we are not, they may use us and grow a life that is not ours.

Marcel Proust says that the ONLY fountain of youth is to see with new (other) eyes...to see through the eyes of another.  How much in our world would be harmonized if we did that story? 

The ONLY Fountain of Youth: other eyes

I thought for years that I needed a massive win to feel safe; millions in the bank and I would be okay.  I have tried on a better story, the story of the sweet small steps to progress... I ask what is the next adjacent possible?  (Letting go of the grandiosity that, hey was my mother's story of safety. which I inherited.)

I am happier now seeing with my 'spiritual vision' of faith that it will all work out.  There will be enough.

Use spiritual vision & celebrate blessings.

BEST PRACTICE:
Stop. Take a breath. Set a timer for 2 minutes.  (You can spare that, right?)

Start. Imagine a calm place mentally in your head. Breathe it in. With every breath, start over.  Breathing in the calm of that place ...slowly and supercharging it with gratitude.  Think of what you are grateful for and breathe that in with the calm.  Repeat with each breath. Repeat until the time dings.  Feel better?

Easy.

You have the power.  but what good is it if you don't use it?

Each moment  is a choice…an unfolding…to see deeper and more kindly. Start again.
We are travelers on this journey.

Each moment we are being offered a choice. How do we see the knuckle heads – out there? How do we see our own foibles and knuckeheaded moments? With spiritual vision… we see deeper.

Daily word –
How I choose to see the world determines my experience of it.  ...

When facing challenges, It may be easier to see myself and others through the lens of my inner critic – judgment…But I pause…and breathe deeply and remind myself that I am a traveler on this journey of life and still have much to learn about myself. I refrain from making harsh judgments against my fellow human beings. 

In material ways, attitude is altitude

Not spiritual bypass… I am not suggesting we ignore the feedback from our body and our world.  But that knowing the world is not perfect, it seems to be perfectly made to trigger in us what is yet to be healed or what is the next step on my journey.

"Do we dare to re-remember? To retell and rewrite?

What if we just woke up and translated the old stories into a different language in which we understand that all people act to their level of skill. They do the best they can in the moment—with what they have. Why not reinterpret my stories in the light of my current more-adult understandings? Then my history changes. It sets me up to cascade forward. Who I am changes. There is nothing to forgive. I am free.

…Then I can shift to some more interesting story—or something more worth doing?"

- No. 20 Live Backwards, Remember Better – A Hospice Chaplain's Field Guide Book to Caregiving- Finding Resilience on the Frontlines of live

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ATTRIBUTIONS:
1)    Daily Word – Clarity – Mon 6th July
2)    My book the ending Rule no. 20 …and the most important one…it is the rule my next book will start with.– No. 20- Live Backwards, Remember Better
3)    Quote from Marcel Proust – The Captive.

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THANK YOUS:
1) My thanks to Mary Oliver for her line from THE SUMMER DAY– "my one wild and precious life"
2) MY thanks to  SF unity for the invitation to practice as my highest self.   I invite you to do that today.  We need your voice.   

Blessings….on your day.