{"id":6263,"date":"2013-08-07T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2013-08-07T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:41:31","slug":"seeing-what-is-not-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=6263","title":{"rendered":"Seeing what is &#8220;not&#8221; there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to invite you to take a little test. \u00a0This is not a difficult or complicated test. \u00a0And it won&#8217;t take up a lot of your time. \u00a0It is simply a fun experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some of you have taken this test before.\u00a0 But maybe there are quite a few of you have not.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a short video.\u00a0 In the video, you will see four people wearing white clothing and four people wearing black clothing. \u00a0You will be asked to count the number of times a person wearing white clothing passes the basketball to another person wearing white clothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At the end of the video, you will be given the answer so you can compare your findings to the correct number of passes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Please view the video before clicking &#8220;read more&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuMZO-Ykxfg?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I generally consider myself to be a person with a fairly high level of awareness, so I was humorously shocked to find out at the end of the video that I had &#8220;failed&#8221; this exercise completely.<\/p>\n<p>And as a result of this interesting awareness test, my mind could not escape the burning question: \u00a0If I missed something as seemingly obvious as a moon-walking gorilla dancing in the middle of a small group of eight people, what else might I not be noticing in the world around me as I go about the business of my day-to-day affairs?<\/p>\n<p>Nearly every day, I drive home past the perimeter of a beautiful state park.\u00a0 It is a mile-long stretch of lush beautiful trees and other colorful varieties of Florida foliage.\u00a0 One afternoon, I saw a family of beautiful deer grazing in the tall wispy grass.\u00a0 It looked like a water-color painting, so peaceful, so natural, so perfect.\u00a0 Of all the previous days, weeks, and months of me driving home on this same road, sometimes even traveling on it twice a day, I had never before seen any deer.\u00a0 Ever.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the next afternoon, during my regular commute home, I intentionally looked for the deer, determined to lay eyes upon this picturesque setting once again.\u00a0 And to my delight, and surprise, there they were again.\u00a0 Not the exact same number of deer; there were only two this time.\u00a0 And not in the exact same location; they were a hundred feet or so further down the road.\u00a0 But there they were, peacefully grazing in the tall wispy grass.<\/p>\n<p>And on many occasions since that very first moment, I have seen deer along the side of the road.\u00a0 But it couldn\u2019t be possible that the first time I saw these magnificent creatures was actually the first time they ever appeared there, could it?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not.\u00a0 It was only the first time my awareness included them.<\/p>\n<p>This experience was revolutionary for me and it stirred up quite a few questions:\u00a0 What <i>else<\/i> am I not seeing in life?\u00a0 Of all the events happening around me, why do some of them come into my awareness and others do not?\u00a0 Am I consciously choosing this?\u00a0 Or is it created by something other than me, being placed into the space of my existence?\u00a0 And the biggest question of them all:\u00a0 <i>What does this mean?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the answer to that bigger question, as I\u2019ve come to know, is one that can only be answered by me as a creation of my own choosing.\u00a0 For me, it means that there is much more going on here than what I currently see.\u00a0 It means that when I think I know what I need to know, if I expand my perspective to include more, I will allow myself to experience that I actually know more.\u00a0 Because I now understand that the way I view life is based upon my perspective.\u00a0 And my perspective provides the underlying support system which serves to create the reality I ultimately experience.\u00a0 \u00a0The truth I hold, the thoughts I choose, and the emotions I experience are all sequentially tied into and foundationed upon the perspective from which I see things.<\/p>\n<p>So as hard as I might to try to tell someone \u201chow\u201d something is, or when someone else gets frustrated because I don\u2019t \u201csee\u201d things in a similar way, it is important to remember that a thing can only be seen in the same way when viewed from the same perspective.<\/p>\n<p>We <i>all<\/i> have the ability to elevate our experience from one of a distorted reality (what we think is happening). \u00a0We even have the ability to move beyond an experience of observed reality (what we can readily see happening) and closer to an experience of ultimate reality (what is actually happening). \u00a0How do we do this? \u00a0By expanding the perspective of the Mind to include the Wisdom of the Soul. \u00a0It is from this vantage point that we will be given the opportunity to see without limitations, allowing us to embrace every aspect in our lives, including our relationships with each other, with a deeper understanding of what we have already always known.<\/p>\n<p>For a more extensive look at the revolutionary Mechanics of the Mind\/System of the Soul process, I invite and encourage you to read the book <i>When Everything Changes, Change Everything, <\/i>which offers extraordinary spiritual and practical insight into what &#8220;creating your own reality&#8221; 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She is also a member of the Spiritual Helper team at www.ChangingChange.net, a website offering emotional and spiritual support. To connect with Lisa, please e-mail her at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"mailto:lisa@theglobalconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Lisa@TheGlobalConversation.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to invite you to take a little test. \u00a0This is not a difficult or complicated test. \u00a0And it won&#8217;t take up a lot of your time. \u00a0It is simply a fun experiment. Perhaps some of you have taken this test before.\u00a0 But maybe there are quite a few of you have not. 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