Shifting Your View

The only way to shift your view of life is to have another view in place that will allow the shift. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness of what needs shifting…

The other night I caught the last hour of a football game. When the game was over I began looking for something else to watch. Fifteen seconds on one channel, ten seconds on another, five on another, than another and another. It’s amazing how we stay fixated on something, in this case the TV when it comes to the mind. We’re so reluctant to shift our view of life even though we’re going round and round in circles. Actually what’s on the TV (the fixation) is mostly reruns, yet we’ll watch the same channel (thoughts) over an over. Even though there are many channels (thoughts) we get stuck on one and don’t know how to shift this view.

Think of something you get fixated on and see how hard it is to shift your view when it gets you in its grip. Unless there’s total awareness of this, shifting your view will be just about impossible. The only way to shift the view you have of life is to have something in place that will allow it to shift to. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness something needs shifting. It may be a repeated thought disguised with many different labels, but it’s still an old thought. Watch the subtleness of this and in time you’ll see your view for what it is and how it likes to default to what’s familiar. The issue is you can get so comfortable with this that it’s not realized your view needs to be shifted; this realization will only occur if you have another view that’s worth shifting to…