“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” Marcel Proust
It’s Time To See The World In a New Way
Yes our minds are amazing tools that we are blessed to have, but they also have their limitations. Our minds are constantly analyzing everything; in fact they never stop analyzing. The problem with letting our minds think uncontrollably is that we become removed from reality. Whenever you become consumed with your thinking processes you are lost in your past or imagining your future.
One way to step away and give your self space from your thinking mind is to just observe your surroundings without inner verbalization. When you verbalize something you start to think and analyze, and thinking is removing yourself from living in the now.
New Eyes Exercise
Go To a Location that is beautiful to you. Sit in a comfortable position, quiet your mind by meditating for 10-20 minutes. When you come out of your meditation, just observe your surroundings; watch that you don’t try to make any interpretation of it. Just take in all the sights and sounds, if this is new to you, you will probably catch your internal dialogue saying things like: “wow this is so beautiful” “that sky is an amazing blue” etc.
Just remember that as soon as you have those thoughts you have removed your self from the experience. Your mind has analyzed it and given it a label, by giving something a label you have defined it and taken the essence of what makes it beautiful.
Living In The Now
Just practice feeling and experiencing what you are seeing for a few minutes at a time, later you can make an interpretation and contemplate your experience. The more you go from thinking to feeling, the more you will be living in the “now”.
Learn to see everything that is going on around you. You can do this by not focusing your field of vision on anything in particular. Learn to simply see with your eyes and using your whole field of vision by not fixating on one single point.
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September 24th, 2009 at 7:18 am
This is a wonderful guide to how to simply be present in the moment. Thank you for inspiring your readers to take time to observe without labeling, to see without analyzing. I look forward to reading more.
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mezz Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 11:52 am
It’s my pleasure…thank you for taking the time to comment, I really appreciate it
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September 24th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Beautiful message and yes, I know this place and live it. We are not our thoughts or even our minds. We are our consciousness. We ARE consciousness…if we choose to live it. Thank you.
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:51 am
my pleasure
…thank you for contributing to my site 
glad to know we are on the same wave length…take care..
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September 25th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Hi Ivan!
Thanks for the reminder. I find often we try to force the world to be what we want it to be, instead of opening our eyes and seeing how it really is, and letting it guide us
Keep well!
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October 13th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Hi Ivan. Thanks for the interesting post on “removing conditioning” to see the world in a different light. This process can transform the world around us into a stunningly new experience again and again. Here’s something about “seeing” that amazed me equally. Imagine for a moment that our brains were personal computers, hooked into a kind of “Cosmic Internet”. Think of this place as a “Universe Wide Web” if you like, and the Source of our ideas and feelings and intuitions. Just like on the everyday internet, there’s software “out there” that can be downloaded. The most special software gives us “Vision”. To download it, you learn to take away fears of judgment. When this inhibiting fear is removed, your brain is updated and you have eyes to see something astonishingly important. Namely, who you are and what to do with your life. Practically speaking, you see which careers are meant for you, and what opportunities make sense. You see which way to take your life, because that “software update” brings with it passion for some special life-activity that you’ll go make a living doing. With Vision, you look around at the world and see your place in it. Add this kind of insight to your life along with the process of “removing conditioning” and Joy flows in along with beauty. John Duffield
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