I am working to exercise my ability to pause and reflect more consistently in my daily experiences to ask, what am I not seeing?!

This is a practice passed on by mystics, contemplative seekers who surrender their self identity to absorb into the realm of the absolute. My practice was inspired through the studies on Patanjali’s causes of suffering, the Klesha.

His #1 root cause of suffering, Avidya = “not really seeing.”

→ How often have we sat in stress while be surrounded by gifts calling for gratitude?

→ Do we care more about how our body looks than enjoying the rare experience of living a life inside it?

→ How often do we look down from a loved one to gaze at the light behind a scrolling screen?

→ Are we avoiding connection with another in order to embrace our own inner monolog?

→ How many times do we observe a human being from our single minded perspective?

We are on a sphere that is orbiting around the sun at 67,000 mph and spinning on its own axis at approximately 700 mph. This life supporting sphere is ripping through a vast and intense vacuum of an unlivable outer space and sometimes I get upset that eric didn’t fold the baby’s laundry or that my body doesn’t look fit enough!

There is so much that I am not seeing in the moment to moment, but I realize that the hardest time to see from a clear, elevated and discerning perspective is when someone is pushing my buttons! This is when the practice needs to be ON! As I look into my baby's eyes, I see the world, god, infinite light and deepest love. But, when I get cut off on the freeway I see a jerk.

My goal is to put more and more effort into seeing light and love when I am most prone to view through a single lens clouded in emotion! I find with the political environment, the tone of the news, and social media this is especially difficult but I understand that my efforts will inspire energetic shifts too!