Have you ever seen, in the distance approaching, a bird off in the distance but headed in your general direction to fly over you and beyond.
The feeling associated with this, if you're really looking at that bird, is something that almost allows you to identify with the bird. It doesn't take too much imagination to imagine riding with that bird and looking down at the ground and seeing yourself and that which is around you. Today I'd like to expose you to the possibilities of doing just that with a bird or some other form of life but not a human being.
This is what I suggest, and it doesn't require that there be a bird. Look around where you live. Look specifically towards that which is natural around you - a rocky outcropping, anything like that.
There may be birds there, there may be squirrels there - some other form of life - perhaps just a beetle. Something that you see with some regularity.
If you see some creature like that and you look at the creature for a moment, ask out loud - whisper if you like, "May I see what you are seeing?"
You're really asking to look through the eyes of that being. If they stay where they are this is an acknowledgment - yes - unless they are doing something specific where they have to stay there but if you cannot see them doing something specific where they have to stay there, such as a bird feeding her young in a nest, then the fact that they stayed there means that that permission is granted.
Then imagine looking through their eyes. Don't look at them in that sense...don't imagine what it's like being them. Just imagine their perception. What do they see. Don't get attached to what science says they see and how they see, in the case of a fly for instance, just imagine what you would see if your eyes were there and you were looking out from their perspective.
You may live someplace where animals in the free are not available, perhaps not even a moth. Then look for a tree or any rocky outcropping and imagine yourself there and look from there and see what you can see. You may not know what this is about but I'll build on it later.
Goodlife.
10 months ago
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i want to do this. luckily there are are almost always several animals in my backyard.
Greetings Alison, I hope it works well for you. I will be posting more on this subject soon.
Goodlife.
so this is weird. i went to a park that has wilderness (woods and stuff), and while i was in the woods there with a few of my friends, i had already been planning to do just what you said. before i even remembered it or brought it up with them, they started talking about these little bugs that were on the ground, and after looking at a little array of plants right there, my boyfriend Josh said, "those are like TREES to them!!" and i was like... wow. they actually got into a conversation about bugs' and animals' perspectives and stuff. so i decided to tell them about your post, and how it was weird that they just brought that topic up like that out of nowhere.
pretty cool i think. that has happened with a couple of your posts: people talking about the things in them before i tell them myself. (they dont read your blog).
i just thought it was cool.
Greetings Alison, thank you very much for sharing your experience here. I cannot say I'm entirely surprised because I feel that you have the capacity, being the spiritual person you are, to experience such synchronicity.
This might help you on your spiritual path because it will be able to support your gentle guiding of your friends. It also of course, I believe, feels supportive to you that they are so receptive at this time with you. May it continue in the most benevolent way for you.
Goodlife.
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