The Way You Look at Things

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
-Wayne Dyer
 
 
Bliss is one of those feelings, like ecstasy and transcendence, that feel miraculous and unapproachable except by a select few. What does following your bliss look like in everyday, regular old life? Is it a miracle? Maybe, and maybe it’s just a change in how you look at things.
 
For each one bliss looks different, but the foundation is that of perceiving with the eyes of love. To give you an idea of what love flowing on a regular day might look like, here’s an entry from my  journal of several years ago.
 
“It is a glorious, sun-filled morning. The weather is unseasonably warm. I have been following the energy for several days rather than my usual, routine work schedule. Because of that, the windows are put away and the screens are up on the front porch, the dead plants are cleared off the back porch and several plants sit outside here with me, enjoying the early spring sunshine. As I follow the energy, jobs get done before I need to have them done. This must be something the same as squirrels instinctively wanting to collect acorns and seeds in August that they later need over the winter. All part of how the creative energy flows so beneficially for all. It gives me a feeling of being watched over, cared for and loved.
 
I have an increased awareness of the beauty and joy with which I am surrounded. A robin singing her cheery good morning outside my bedroom window. Her evening song lilting and lovely through the deepening dusk of day's end. The sparkling brook flowing through the dark green and rust of the pine woods in back of our home. Perhaps I am simply allowing myself more time for these things by not sticking to a prearranged job schedule. Perhaps I am more relaxed, better able to appreciate. What a gift!”
 
Wouldn’t it be nice to feel like this every day? I’d like to. I don’t always, but that’s what our spiritual tools are for, because we each of us has a choice to change how we look at things today. We can choose to see through the eyes of love. 

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Your Spiritual Toolbox

​Combining your spiritual tools can be an effective method for changing how you look at things. For example, suppose you woke up today feeling grumpy. The day ahead looking like so many before and just feeling like hard work to be pushed through.
 
Before you launch into today’s planned activities give yourself a few minutes to
tune into the energy of love, focusing your attention on your heart area.  The Emerald Light Heart Meditation in Trust God, is a short and effective meditation for focusing into your heart. Do this at the beginning of your day. Then, whenever you think of it during the day, breathe into your heart area, taking several deep, expansive breaths.
 
If you have some flexibility in your choice of activities today, access the energy of today using the spiritual tool in Unfurling the Blossom of Today in Be Content and follow the energy.
 
If you do not have flexibility concerning your activities today, choose the first thing that comes to mind that you are not looking forward to doing, and make a short gratitude list as in the post Feeling Grateful Even When You Don’t, in Savor the Sweetness. Only this time make the list specific to this particular activity. Find whatever you can to feel grateful for about this activity (even if it’s just getting through it!) Then move on to the next thing you feel grateful for about this activity. When you then actually do it you will find that your perspective has shifted.
 
Throughout the day today focus upon what you feel grateful for about each thing that you are doing. Keep a list in your pocket, as in Keep Gratitude in Your Pocket,  in Savor the Sweetness, or just hold it in your awareness.
 
Using your spiritual tools to focus your attention upon the energy of love can change the way you look at things so that the things you look at can change.