The case of the shortsighted person
Forgive me for the title - I just finished watching the last episode of Sherlock Season 4 so I've still got the "detective" vibe going on in my head.
Today I wanted to chat to you about our perceived failings and wanted to give you an example of my perceived failing. I was chatting to my shaman this morning and said that I wanted to clear up the issue of my shortsightedness and see clearly again. My shaman asked me what was my perception of the shortsightedness - my answer was "It limits my ability to do things because I cannot see properly". For me I had seen my eyesight as a way to stop me from doing what others could because I couldn't see - I had to pay more money to get my eyes corrected and let's face it, my eyesight is pretty bad. I constantly need to wear glasses or contact lenses otherwise I wouldn't be able to do anything! Or so I thought.
The next thing my shaman asked me was "What are the benefits of me not being able to see?". Ooh this was a tricky one. I really had to think about it - I came up with stuff like it allowed me to have heightened senses (i.e. my hearing and sense of smell and touch are pretty damn good), it allowed me to come up with creative solutions to challenges (i.e. Oh crap I can't really see what I'm doing so what can I do to get around this issue?), it allowed me to be more intuitive (i.e. I can see through people who have a hidden agenda even though physically they might be everything you would expect), I could see and feel energies, I know that there is more to life than what you can physically see, I have better "inner sight" (i.e. visions, I have seen past lives, etc) and I could see the sun, the stars, the different colours of everyday life, etc. My shaman pointed out to me that what was the actual issue with my shortsightedness when I could see the physical, the spiritual and the mental side of things and I was stunned. I couldn't come back with anything. In fact, when we thought about why I was shortsighted, reality struck - I had to "lose" sight of some things in order to see other things - things that would make me become a better healer to be able to make a difference to other peoples' lives. Quite frankly, it is very possible that if I actually HAD perfect 20/20 vision, I would be missing out of all the things I know now and in truth I would rather have my shortsightedness and see everything else than have 20/20 vision and see nothing.
Now when I think about my eyes, I feel immense gratitude for the gift that has been given to me. Obviously I still want my eyesight to improve, but now I understand why things happened the way they happened. And now, when my eyesight improves, at least I will not have lost everything that I have gained when my eyesight was not that good.
In the session we found another underlying cause of the eyesight - my lack of vision. Not physical vision, not sensing vision or anything, but more so a lack of vision of my life and where I want it to head right now. I have the bigger picture in my mind but the steps to get there - I have no idea. So the next step for me is to create a big vision board and make it very clear to the Universe how I want to achieve my dreams so the Universe can start assisting me (obviously that or something better).
On the eyesight improvement front, I have taken active steps to bring about changes to my eyes. After having my first session with the shaman last week, I began to understand what I needed to do to improve it. I went back to the time my eye sight started failing and began to understand the underlying cause and balanced my emotions against any memories that popped up. I then actively started sending healing energy to my eyes and began to feel the energetic "tingling" behind my eye balls. I started to do morning affirmations around my eyesight - that it was improving, that I could see clearly, etc. Over the past few days I've noticed that my eyes have become quite tired but the rest of my body is fine. I suspect that things are changing (hard to really gauge at the moment) but I notice even when I wear contact lenses now sometimes the world seems a bit "blurrier" which is a positive sign. It will be interesting to see how my eyes go over the next few weeks! It will also be interesting to see if it improves dramatically once I get my ass into gear and finish that vision board!
At the end of the day, I think the lesson is this - we need to look at our perceived failings as blessings. The way to do it is this: ask yourself what do you perceive from your "failing" or the area of your life that you feel is "lacking". Then ask yourself what is the benefit of you having that "failing"? This can take a bit of time and perhaps some prompting but you will be able to find benefits. Try for 50 benefits first (yea you might say wtf but get the ego side out of it and really start concentrating on the real benefits). You'll start seeing that what you have really is not a failure, and you will see that you would not be the person you are now (a wonderful person full of different experiences and skills) without that "failing". Embrace it and move forward!
Today I wanted to chat to you about our perceived failings and wanted to give you an example of my perceived failing. I was chatting to my shaman this morning and said that I wanted to clear up the issue of my shortsightedness and see clearly again. My shaman asked me what was my perception of the shortsightedness - my answer was "It limits my ability to do things because I cannot see properly". For me I had seen my eyesight as a way to stop me from doing what others could because I couldn't see - I had to pay more money to get my eyes corrected and let's face it, my eyesight is pretty bad. I constantly need to wear glasses or contact lenses otherwise I wouldn't be able to do anything! Or so I thought.
The next thing my shaman asked me was "What are the benefits of me not being able to see?". Ooh this was a tricky one. I really had to think about it - I came up with stuff like it allowed me to have heightened senses (i.e. my hearing and sense of smell and touch are pretty damn good), it allowed me to come up with creative solutions to challenges (i.e. Oh crap I can't really see what I'm doing so what can I do to get around this issue?), it allowed me to be more intuitive (i.e. I can see through people who have a hidden agenda even though physically they might be everything you would expect), I could see and feel energies, I know that there is more to life than what you can physically see, I have better "inner sight" (i.e. visions, I have seen past lives, etc) and I could see the sun, the stars, the different colours of everyday life, etc. My shaman pointed out to me that what was the actual issue with my shortsightedness when I could see the physical, the spiritual and the mental side of things and I was stunned. I couldn't come back with anything. In fact, when we thought about why I was shortsighted, reality struck - I had to "lose" sight of some things in order to see other things - things that would make me become a better healer to be able to make a difference to other peoples' lives. Quite frankly, it is very possible that if I actually HAD perfect 20/20 vision, I would be missing out of all the things I know now and in truth I would rather have my shortsightedness and see everything else than have 20/20 vision and see nothing.
Now when I think about my eyes, I feel immense gratitude for the gift that has been given to me. Obviously I still want my eyesight to improve, but now I understand why things happened the way they happened. And now, when my eyesight improves, at least I will not have lost everything that I have gained when my eyesight was not that good.
In the session we found another underlying cause of the eyesight - my lack of vision. Not physical vision, not sensing vision or anything, but more so a lack of vision of my life and where I want it to head right now. I have the bigger picture in my mind but the steps to get there - I have no idea. So the next step for me is to create a big vision board and make it very clear to the Universe how I want to achieve my dreams so the Universe can start assisting me (obviously that or something better).
On the eyesight improvement front, I have taken active steps to bring about changes to my eyes. After having my first session with the shaman last week, I began to understand what I needed to do to improve it. I went back to the time my eye sight started failing and began to understand the underlying cause and balanced my emotions against any memories that popped up. I then actively started sending healing energy to my eyes and began to feel the energetic "tingling" behind my eye balls. I started to do morning affirmations around my eyesight - that it was improving, that I could see clearly, etc. Over the past few days I've noticed that my eyes have become quite tired but the rest of my body is fine. I suspect that things are changing (hard to really gauge at the moment) but I notice even when I wear contact lenses now sometimes the world seems a bit "blurrier" which is a positive sign. It will be interesting to see how my eyes go over the next few weeks! It will also be interesting to see if it improves dramatically once I get my ass into gear and finish that vision board!
At the end of the day, I think the lesson is this - we need to look at our perceived failings as blessings. The way to do it is this: ask yourself what do you perceive from your "failing" or the area of your life that you feel is "lacking". Then ask yourself what is the benefit of you having that "failing"? This can take a bit of time and perhaps some prompting but you will be able to find benefits. Try for 50 benefits first (yea you might say wtf but get the ego side out of it and really start concentrating on the real benefits). You'll start seeing that what you have really is not a failure, and you will see that you would not be the person you are now (a wonderful person full of different experiences and skills) without that "failing". Embrace it and move forward!