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5 Tips to Expand Your Perspective
Do you ever feel like your mind is getting the best of you? You know that feeling when your mind grasps onto a thought that just loops over and over and over again? It’s an awful feeling—to be contracted by the state of the mind. Nobody likes it. You might even experience a physical experience of shriveling or compressing in the outer lines of your body. Who likes feeling small and limited? Nobody! Here are some tips on how to expand your state of being in moments of body or mind contraction. 1. We all have pieces of ourselves that need healing. Contraction just means an opportunity to heal and transcend. If you find yourself in a predicament, which is bound to happen, cos life offers predicaments, imagine yourself bigger than the thing itself. And I mean every little bit and part of yourself. Step outside of what is contracting you and view it from another angle. Climb onto the next level on the ladder and change your perspective. Change the mental and physical shape of it in your mind and watch the structure mold into a whole new shape. Forms become created by the diagrams in which we perceive.
2. Practice yoga. One of greatest things that happens when practicing yoga is it gets us as humans to have a kinesthetic experience of what we are in, instead of a mental experience of how we’re perceiving it. And it feels SO DAMN GOOD. Yoga has been around since the beginning of mankind— there’s a reason why it has stuck around til now- more than 2, 012 years later—BECAUSE IT WORKS. Yoga is designed to align your body in a way that gives you more clarity and intelligence. The yogis really are onto something.
3. Walk on the Earth. Walking always grounds me and gets me back into my body when I feel my energy is moving up too fast. Walking slows down the pace and rhythm of the bodymind, plants the feet into the Earth and connects you to the people you walk by. It gets your energy flowing down. Once you get your awareness back into your body, watch it all shift. Stay down! Stay in your body! Get in your heels connected with the core of the Earth and out of the situation your mind is creating.
4. Talk about it with someone you trust. There are wise beings all around you waiting to help. Every single person on this planet has something to offer. As a collective, we’ve all had different life experiences—whether they be from past lives or current life. We’re all here to help one another and uplift us out of the dramas of everyday life. Hopefully you have those beings around you that help you remember. If you don’t, find them. They’re out there.
5. Let it go. Detach and observe. Try to remove your presence from the thing that is eating away at you from a place of witnessing. Witness consciousness, the complete observer. When you start to not take things so personally and see the situation for what it is versus what you perceive it to be, life changes. I know life is crazy sometimes and it feels really difficult and unbearable at moments, but remember this: you are alive, you are breathing, YOU ARE HERE. It’s a miracle that we’re here together experiencing life as a human being on this planet. We’re on Earth and not on Jupiter for a reason. Remember perspective. OM.
Published February 26, 2012 at 7:10 AM
