This week's tip: Seek Beauty.

This past weekend in Stinson Beach was a great reminder: that I love having a meditation practice, that I love unstructured time, that I love cooking with friends, and that I love to look at a beautiful view. 

 

One person had brought  bio-feedback monitor for us to play with and we each got to watch the beeping light of our heartbeat as we learned to relax and turn the red light indicating stress to blue and then green, indicating relaxation. I wonder how much of the ease of arriving at green had to do with the view of the ocean through the floor-to-ceiling glass wall of the living room. 

 

Beauty keeps us sane, but the wonderful thing about it is that it is so subjective. I was delighted, when driving home, with the shapes of the power lines and their towers. I could barely stop myself from pulling over and sketching them. They looked like robots or statues. Normally, I would blow right past this sort of mundane element of a long highway drive, but as i am on a check-in call on Mondays where we talk about the art we are working on, I was looking with different eyes. 

 

This weeks tip is simply this: what if you were to imagine that you had on a pair of goggles that allowed you to see everything as beautiful? 

 

Would that change your day? Your approach? Your life?

 

Give the world around you a chance to be beautiful today. It will show up for you. (ps- the image above was taken on the 5, not in Stinson...)

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