It Is Always Beautiful
When we get out of the way.
I couldn’t find the can I was looking for, even though I knew it was there.
After much searching and not seeing the can, I began questioning my memory. Maybe I never did buy more.
Then I remembered to stop doubting, look again, and see differently.
As soon as I switched to that mode of thinking, the can came into view. I hadn’t seen it because I was looking for a smaller can, the way it used to look, and not what it currently looked like.
This was such a clear example of shifting perceptions that I laughed aloud.
We all need reminding about how shifting perceptions work.
Here’s what happened.
I shifted my point of view from doubt about my memory to knowing I had ordered and my state of mind from worry to relaxation.
The outcome was immediate.
It is how the universe works.
When our beliefs get in the way, we can’t see what we aren’t looking for. We look for how we think it is, how it used to be, and how we want it to be, and we are blind to what is already present.
This idea about perception is not conjecture, not wishful thinking, but fact.
Although when I first started writing about perception, the science behind this idea was not so specific, now we find proof everywhere.
On the TV show Brain Games, viewers saw four squares on the screen. When asked to stare at just one square, the other three disappear.
This is not because they have been removed from the screen (blink, and they come back), but because our brain decides we are not interested in them, so there is no reason to show them to us anymore.
Think of the implications of this.
If we stare at what is not working, we no longer see what is working.
If we think there is not enough, we keep getting not enough.
If we think there is only one solution, there is only one solution.
What we perceive to be reality magnifies.—Beca
Within spiritual awareness, we have always known that there is more than what our five senses tell us is accurate.
However, we often don’t take this awareness to the next step and make it practical.
The senses lie to us, always. Actually, they aren’t lying as much as attempting to make us not be liars.
They report to us what we believe to be true.
This is why the only thing we ever have to do is shift our perception. We are all practicing how to do that all the time, right?
When I was looking for the can, I was looking for what it used to look like. It came into view when I stopped doing that and instead asked to see what I knew had to be there.
In my book Living In Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception, I describe my first memory of this discovery. When I was a child, I threw a ball up in the yard, but when it came down, I couldn’t find it even though I knew it had to be there.
Eventually, knowing I had to be home before the street lights came on (remember that?), I asked God to show it to me. Immediately, I saw it beside my foot.
At that moment, it became apparent to me that my perception limited what I could see. In God’s view, the ball was always there. I didn’t know then how the human mind filters information based on what we believe, but we all know that now, don’t we?
Yet, despite this, we spend most of our time staring, with a frozen focus, at what we already know—or think we know.
We look for things as they used to be and try to find love, happiness, and wealth based on a picture that filters out everything that doesn’t look like what we have been trained to think it looks.
We are blind to what we know through our faith and limited spiritual understanding to be the complete and always present supply of infinite Love.
Isn’t it time for us to be serious about shifting our point of view perception to infinite good and our state of mind perception to peace?
The world needs each of us to do so in our own lives to expand into the hearts and minds of those making decisions on a bigger scale that affect us all.
Remember, shifting is immediate, we just have to be willing to see it.
If we remove the blinders of how we think it should be, we’ll see how the Divine knows it., which is always beautiful and good.