Wanting or Choosing?

I often say, “You see what you look for”. The difference between wanting and choosing is that wanting depends on circumstance. Choosing depends on focus. Our minds are like camera lenses that we can focus on whatever we choose. Choosing is a signal, a way of filtering your reality from the myriad of options that are available and demanding our attention at any moment. Choosing is how we direct our reality as active participants rather than letting life tell us what to focus on. Playing with perspectives can show you that you have the option not to be a victim of circumstances but a Being of great creative potential. At any moment, there are at least two ways to look at something. Thoughts are content, mind is the backdrop where they occur. How do you feel when you focus on a thought? Can you choose a different one? How does that feel? Can you go to the background and watch while you take a few breaths?

The clouds or the sky. The forest or the trees. The painting or the canvas. And on and on. It doesn’t have to be one or the other, but it’s the beginning of tapping into this greater capacity to use the lens of our mind in a fuller capacity. To understand that we have this hybrid nature and that by honing this tool of our mind, learning to work with our perspective and access our own inner world, we can start to use our mind to tune into our true nature, our Essential Nature, more Presence, more Peace.

The yoga teachings dictate that our outer world is a reflection of our inner world.

What are you choosing? How are you seeing? I choose…..

I choose Freedom. I choose Peace. I choose This Moment. I choose Now. I choose to see Beauty.

There are so many choices. Becoming aware of how you focus your ‘camera lens’ is the beginning of a power you may have not known was with you all along. The perspective that is always with you and the Awareness that is just beyond your normal habits of attention. Try it out. There is no right or wrong, just experimenting.