As I sat down to write this morning I had a number of wispy thoughts but nothing that seemed substantial, so I sat back in my chair and waited.
An image of the earth floating in space opened in my mind’s eye and the thought we all live in the sky popped in. A simple but yet profound contemplation. If the sky is not just as we look up towards the blue color, clouds, rain or sun shine we see but rather extends outward in all directions then what is it? From one perspective we are usually so overwhelmed by the overlooked miraculous details of breathing, eating, loving, creating, working and cleaning up that we forget where we are. Are we lost in space or is the earth a huge spaceship on a journey? In either case we live in the sky.
This brings me to perspective. Little mind and big mind. Local and global. Individual and universal. If we become too focused on one extreme or the other we may become so out of balance that any ability to see the view from the other side is lost. We reinforce our view by our own feedback and become stagnant like the bits of debris in a small whirlpool on the side of a stream. We lose the evolution of our growth and a fuller experience of living.
However, there is always an alternative view. Every coin has two sides. every ideology has its opposite. Up has down, black has white, hot has cold. One cannot exist without the other. They are an inseparable pair and therefore are actually one.
Extremes are valuable in that we can use them to return to the middle and then move forward. When you find yourself in a problem or just stuck in one point of view try, PIVOTING.
To pivot imagine the most opposite thought to the one you are having. Contemplate it even as ridiculous as it may appear. You do not have to go there or even agree with it but to just see it as the necessary opposite of the viewpoint you started with. The more wrong something else is the more right you are. But remember you started out being stuck, frozen and unable to act or even make a decision. By imagining the far opposite it will nudge you back towards the middle where your view may be closer to a comfortable action you can take.
Although I am still sitting on my chair my image of living in the sky moved my fingers to tapping on my keyboard and flowing this through the sky to you.
Thank you for reading.
Your comments and thoughts are warmly welcomed.
Spiritual Gravity 