Sometimes I walk my dog thru a cemetery. It’s quiet, there’s very little traffic and its right near my house. One day as I looking at the tombstones, I thought no matter how challenging things may get… as long as I am still on this side of the pavement … there is still always opportunity.
These reality checks are everywhere. When we visit friends in the hospital and see people struggling with their health, when we drive by an accident on the highway…
Someone once told me our “reality” was determined solely by our ‘perception’ of an event and our ‘interpretation’ of that perception in terms of a feeling (e.g. positive / negative,…happy / sad….).
I recently saw the movie Inception and in it the characters used a totem (a small personal object) to distinguish between their reality and dreams…so…I thought …What a good idea! And wouldn’t it be interesting to use a totem everyday? It could be very comforting to have something we could carry with us everyday to regularly check in with ourselves... a physical reminder to look inward…check our perceptions and interpretations of a situation…and ‘be’ with and feel our feelings in any given moment.
Random Thought #8
Consider the idea of a totem to question your interpretation of reality and if it is all determined by our minds… work towards being the luckiest, most positive person you know.
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