How often do we forget to "look"? Muddling along in our own worlds, busy in our heads with our agendas, we rarely get beyond our skins and "really look" at our surroundings.
No matter where we live, whether in a rural calm or in a purposeful city, there is beauty constantly around us...patterns of light through an office window, splashing onto desks, or sky reflecting from rain puddles, or a butterfly hovering above a flowering plant, or a sunset over the ocean, or a moonrise across a lake.....it can be anything, anywhere, but are we "looking"?
The 21st Century seems to be about "always", no time, always time, time erased, with the demands that this kind of immediacy brings to all aspects of life. Up to us, then, to remember to take time "out", and one way to do this kind of recharging is to really pay attention to our surrounding world.
A change is as good as a rest, goes the old adage. A pushing out from our immediate skins, getting out of our busy little minds, and truly viewing our surround sound, even for five minutes, can make all the difference to our equilibrium. Isn't this what meditators have been saying for eons?
Every day, take five!
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