Re-conceiving your Self (December 26th)
December 26 – Re-Conceiving your Self: Go forth today choosing to See as though this were your first day of Life. Let go of all your memories and judgments and preconceptions and beliefs and convictions — Simply BE & SEE … Notice the sun and the moon anew. Try to count how many different shades of green there are around you each day. Notice the architecture of your city’s buildings and the infinite styles of clothing worn by others. Pay attention to the uniqueness of others’ eyes and the different ways they all walk.
Pause mid-morning and write out a list of six (6) things in your immediate environment that you would have labeled as “normal” on any other day. Then pause long enough to See them anew – as wondrous, as miraculous, as unique … Repeat this exercise at mid-afternoon, and then a third time upon arriving home this evening, re-claiming your Right to Live in Awe.
First of all, this task was a bit challenging because ti was really hard to find a lot of shades of green – I mean, it’s the middle of the beginning of winter 😉 … So, I just changed the color to brown and had fun with that. I guess either color is an eye-opener if you happen to live in a city (where the shades of gray predominate), and yet as a farm-resident who is used to being inundated with green, it was astounding to notice the vast multitude of brown hues around me. When I paused and really looked, it seemed like everything around me was a different shade of burnished beige – from the leafless trees seen from my window, to the snowy mud around the barn, to the multi-ambered chicken feed, to my own hair, to the floor tiles & the furniture & the accoutrements of my apartment.
It sure is Wonder-full choosing to see my surroundings again “for the first time”; to be re-minded that everything is innately filled with immense Beauty.
So with this refreshed epiphany in mind, I set out to find six “normal” things to “see anew”. Well, it was so much fun, I didn’t want to cease looking for, at & then into the wonders of my everyday environment, and yet I did eventually settle on seven visions from that journey that I will share with you now:
my gentle current Soulmate, Nooka (who reminds me of how it looks to unconditionally Love) …
my closest inanimate Friend, “The Brown Book” (that reminds me to humbly seek for Self by humbly doing for others) …
a picture (that reminds me of the ever-possible union of inner & outer Peace) …
the grains of wood on my home’s dining table (every line of which is a tree’s memory) …
the sculpture of Christ’s “3rd Eye” (which reminds me of the ability we all have to see our inherent Oneness with others) …
my favorite (and most oft-imbibed) sustenance, honey (that reminds me to eat consciently) …
and Light (the fundamental source of all that is)…
In conclusion, today I was reminded of a simple yet oh-so-critical Truth: that the renewing of our minds is always a choice;
a choice that always allows our Vision to be refreshed …
which then allWays inspires our behaviors to be reBorn — with kind actions that are in harmony with the courageous & caring inclinations of our True Selves.
See You when I see you …
… and until then, Be Now!
Scaughdt
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