THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | June 27 2024 No. 867

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

In conversation, one-to-one, with an Online Program Owner I was taken by how described finding "the beauty in small things".

 

We, all of us, at some point or points in our life experience what might best be described as a "natural high" - when we are simply taken by the moment. Examples people cite include: the beauty of the setting sun (or rising moon), the birth of a child, an out-of-the-ordinary sporting achievment. All big things.

 

But we are surrounded by beauty, we are surrounded by the natural highs of being alive should we choose to be aware of them and appreciate them.

These apparently little experiences shouldn't just be experienced and appreciated - they need to be. Our acknowledging them deepens our awareness and, obviously, our self-awareness.

 

People have often queried this by wondering if, in appreciating myriad little things, we elevate them to a point that we no longer experience the real "natural highs" - I recollect someone saying to be in a workshop years ago "Being in that state sounds awfully boring".

 

It is quite the opposite. In fact, it is so far the opposite that the thinking mind wouldn't understand it... surprise, surprise! When we immerse ourselves in experiencing the here and now, acknowledging the privelege of being alive and appreciating the moment, we reach a "natural higher". No longer are we seeking our next "fix" of pleasure (totally different to happiness, by the way), no longer are we attached to our ideas of what we need to make us happy and no longer are we prone to the opposite - the ying and yang, the normal ups and downs, highs and lows.

 

We end up on the higher plane, experiencing the almost-too-good-to-be-true natural higher that is the hallmark of living exuberantly in the flow.