★Fresh Eyes- FRESH JOY

˚Living My Blessings Upon Blessings  

Posted on 20/07/2015. Last edited on 27/09/2016.

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  _{Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. ~Rumi}
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It has been said living in the past or the future keeps us from living in the now…Though, the past and the future have their positive place too…

Having recall for positive feelings of the past can sometimes assist our positivity today… For example, while going to work the other day I was observing the fresh new feeling of my environment…It was a beautiful feeling. The areas I was passing were not new at all…oh though it all felt so(:

The newness-feeling reminded me of… one of the moves of mine… when moved out of state on my own … 4 decades ago… Everything I looked at…I mean everything made my senses wake-up…wake-up to a fresh new moment…and anticipation for life…just as it did when I had moved cross country … anticipating new adventures (in everything]

It is wonderful to create those places inside to experience the world with that ahhh feeling… and say this is where I live…[in ones heart and or environment] and I don’t have to travel around the world to enjoy.

Though,some days when caught up in the schedules of daily life…that fresh experience blends in with ‘everything else’ … the everything that doesn’t do our journeys justice.

This thread is geared to experiencing people, places and things with fresh wondrous eyes & spirit. What has your experience been with this?
_{Appreciating˚}

You’re not the same person you were ten years ago, ten months ago, or even ten minutes ago. Neither are your loved ones, your friends, your acquaintances. See others as they exist in the present moment, not as they existed in the past. _{Brian Weiss}
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• ** article you may enjoy Looking At The World With Fresh Eyes
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• ** _thread This is 1 of my favorites I’ve posted before in regard to fresh eyes with relationships
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items with overlapping significance
_pdf Letting Go..What to Let Go Of

• ** threads with overlapping significance in process…

• ** thread happiness revealed [award winning video]
• ** thread Today Is The Best Day of My Life
• ** thread 8 Ways To Connect [Andrew Weil]
• ** thread 7 Secrets To a More Joyful Life

• ** thread neurons that fire together wire together

• ** thread Insights Into Feeling Connected
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This thread is geared to experiencing people, places and things with fresh wondrous eyes & spirit. What has your experience been with this?

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  To increase our mindfulness is to increase
  our effectiveness. What is the one thing
  you can do to become more mindful?
  Don’t blindly listen to all the authorities.
  Research can only give you probabilities
  that are then translated by the media and
  professionals into absolutes. This means we
  don’t avail ourselves to other possibilities.
  Remind yourself that since everything is always
  changing and because it looks different from
  different perspectives, certainty is a mistake.
  Certainty leads to mindlessness because
  we stop actively noticing new things.
  The power of the mind is extraordinary.
  If we increase our mindfulness, we
  increase our overall effectiveness
  and improve our wellbeing
  Ellen Langer

˚Living My Blessings Upon Blessings  

Posted on 20/07/2015. Last edited on 27/09/2016.

saved to organize thread/update over time. thread created _{July 2015} Would love to continue adding to this topic, and looking forward to others joining in(:

In response to “Appreciating˚‘s post”,

Thank you Appreciating!

This is an amazing thread.

I enjoyed your first question: What has my experience been like with wonder?

My experience was probably very common: I had tons of expectations, and then I was assailed by reality of growing up, learning to become successful at keeping minimum wage jobs, and still know that I wanted so much more.

My personal experience with wonder did get tuned way down as my focus on my profession became a singular focus. I paid a high price and I did not even know the costs, until I explored my Self and my journey.

Most recently, my experience of wonder has been aroused, even yesterday…
It involves a story about forgiveness…
I am sparring you the story, as its lengthy, and does not serve the purpose…
It involves forgiveness of a friend. Yesterday, an opportunity suddenly and unexpectedly arose for forgiveness, and it was like an open door.
With little hesitation, I quickly wanted to make peace over the offenses, and my spirit held nothing back…
The wonder: I have a few things that I would like to say.
First, I thought about my father. And, I felt a sense of awe and wonder.
Then, I thought about my Self, and about my willingness to forgive, instantly.
And, I was in a brief state of weightlessness, like floating and being carefree and unconstrained… The wonder lasted for about an hour, and I felt free, creative, and just joyful and kind of playful, light hearted and unburdened.

I felt Alive! And I also felt like nothing was going to take this feeling away! I felt unreachable, and unstoppably free!

˚Living My Blessings Upon Blessings  

Posted on 21/07/2015.

In response to Kathi’s post:
Thank you for kindly thoughts & for sharing so openly(: Hoping to see this thread grow…your post was a wonderful beginning here(: