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Are You Stuck?
Are you
stuck in your routines? Does your life look like go to work, come home,
microwave something, eat it, watch TV and then pray for sleep? Do you do your
household chores the same way, at the same time every week? Do I read like a
late-night infomercial?
If you
answered yes to any of the above, or know someone who does, it’s time to be
free.
Doing the thing to do the thing has
never gotten the thing done. Our lives were meant to be engaged with, but it’s easy to
get stuck in reverse which now that I think about it is much better than being
stuck in neutral. (In reverse, you are moving.)
While it may
be easy to get stuck, it’s not as easy getting unstuck. The hardest step is the
realization that you have been doing the same things the same way and
complaining about them for more years than is necessary.
Life is for living and then living
some more. Each day brings new opportunities to sample new healthy ways of
living and expressing yourself.
Yesterday,
as I sat waiting for the phone repair people to come and repair our internet, I
noticed that unlike my children, I was not jonesing for the net.
I’m in a
period of renewal, so I’m not watching TV either, so after reading a book, a
journal and a few articles, I decided to watch the birds in my backyard.
An entire
world of activity opened up and when I went to tell my sister about it, she
filled me in on even more. She said that she’d watch a crow take some of the
old stale bread that she had thrown out to them and dip it in the water of the
bird bath before he ate it.
“He softened
up the bread,” Chris said in disbelief. I was as amazed as she was and then she
led me to one of the many bird books we have around which pointed out how smart
crows are.
So why am I talking about birds and
old bread? Because getting unstuck requires that you see that you are and then
see the world around you. You must look with new eyes.
I’m often
reminded of the line in the movie the Matrix when Neo has been unplugged. He
asks why his eyes hurt and is told that they hurt because he’s never really
used them.
I feel that
many of us---okay most of us, walk around not really seeing the beauty of life.
Today and every day that follows, stop, look and marvel.
See the
beauty of life that lies around you and don’t stop there, see the tragedy as
well. Then see how everything is connected to something else and then back to
its self; that beauty is tragedy and tragedy is beautiful.
The moment I
miss my mother is also the moment that I know she’s with me still. When I think
about how hard life is I see how wonderfully full it is also.
When I think
that I am tired I come to see that I have a reason to be; I have accomplished
something.
Today, start
to see and then share your gift of sight.
There is a
Gnostic scripture that reads, “When a sighted man and a blind man are in
darkness, neither one can see, but when the lights come on, the sighted man can
see.”
This passage
has nothing to do with the physical ability to see; it is about your ability to
perceive, to dream, to imagine and then to create.
Be you, be well, LIVE
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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