If You Need Perspective, Use A Fresh Set of Eyes

Have you ever been blinded by familiarity?  Have you seen something over and over again to the point that you take it for granted?  This is when it helps to revisit with a fresh set of eyes.

It's easy to take things for granted, the things we have become accustomed to.  If you've never been hungry, you may take food for granted.  If you've never been homeless, you may take your home for granted.

We all should have the chance to visit a third world country.  It gives fresh perspective to what we have.  Familiarity could breed contempt, but if we continually live through a filter of gratitude, what we see everyday can be seen as wonderful and amazing, as if seeing it for the first time.  

One important point is that guilt and shame for what we have does not enhance gratitude.  We are allowed, worthy and deserving of having our basic needs met and having dreams and hope for a better future.  Gratitude, by its nature, brings expansive possibilities that assist us in having the energy to take our circumstances to make the world a better place.  Happiness is a higher energy, allowing more potential than feelings of unworthiness, which have a lower energy.

To me, never losing childlike innocence means finding a way to remind myself not to take anything for granted.  Embracing the wonders of each day as if it was through the eyes of a child is positive energy worth the mental effort to cultivate.  With that energy, we can change the world, one step at a time.

Have a great day!

Xo

Conni

Today's Mantra:  I choose to see the world through the eyes of an innocent child.

Mantra for Every Day: I choose to send love to all; receiving love back multiplied in infinite proportions, creating and nurturing pathways of love.