What Lens Are You Looking From?
While I was a teenager, I started experiencing severe headaches on a daily basis. My parents tried figuring out what the issue could be and after undergoing several tests, including an eye test, we discovered that my eyes were the culprit.
According to the Optometrist, I was shortsighted and because my eyes were struggling to adjust, I was experiencing headaches. I was then prescribed glasses.
The very first time I put my glasses on, I almost cried. Unknowing to me prior to getting the glasses, my eye sight was extremely poor. The glasses, showed me this truth. I remember telling the technician, I didn't realize the world was this clear.
That experience became an integral lesson, which still influences my life today. It showed me that how life is experienced is based on what lens we are looking from.
Before getting my glasses, I saw the world around me with great vagueness, it appeared to be fuzzy, cloudy and hazy, my line of sight was extremely narrow. However, this was not the truth of the world. How I saw the world around me was impaired by the deterioration of my eyesight.
My glasses gave me an opportunity to see my environment in a different dimension, a world that was clear, sharp and vast. It gave me a vision that allowed me to see beyond my immediate surrounding, one that was able to see far distances.
Applying this lesson to all of life, helps me gain clarity and perspective especially in a world that can be perceived as fearful, ugly, evil and negative.
The truth is, while I agree we have such energies that can be perceived as dominating our planet currently, there is also so much beautiful, so much love, so much goodness and immense positivity existing as well. It all depends on where you are looking from and what you are focusing on.
A while back, I made a conscious commitment to myself, the Divine, humanity and the planet to first be what I want to experience. Instead of looking out at the world and demanding that the world be what I thought it should be. I decided that I would start with me. No better place to start right.
I figured, if I made the change within myself, as the legendary Michael Jackson so profoundly stated, "I'm starting with the man in the mirror," and worked on me, who I had 100% control of, then that change will start emanating outwards, infecting and affecting everything that I did and would eventually reach everyone I interacted with.
Once again, I changed the lens from which I was looking. My old paradigm was causing a great deal of pain and suffering and this was not only affecting me, it was affecting everyone and everything I was a part of.
I started working myself from the inside-out. I cleared away the self-limiting beliefs, the old wounds, the hurt, the pain, the anger, the frustration, the selfishness that formed the.
