We can choose our focus.

I have learned to see actually in a whole new way that helps me be more positive, by seeing more energy. Seeing and recognizing the physical universe as essentially energy means my world, including my problems and what would have seemed before to be impassable obstacles to my goals are now seen as presentations of energy, movable and flowing in nature.

Since the perception we have the most control cover is vision I must choose to keep my eyes open and remain aware of this new vision. If I become less mindful of it, by focusing on my problems, negative thoughts or by just being preoccupied by what I am doing, it can take a while before I notice the energy again. That awakens and revitalizes me, even calms me.

We all move through familiar places this way, when we move from one room of our house or place of work purposefully towards another we do not really see the art on the walls, the furniture, or the decor unless something is really out of place or missing. We can visually take the familiar for granted.

Our brains are “wired” to alert us to potential danger and opportunity, not what is decidedly safe and familiar. One of the reasons more accidents happen in the home, and more traffic accidents happen when a person is near their home is they are less alert to their surroundings. Their brains recognize the surroundings as safe and familiar.

Energy is the stuff of the physical universe, as mass is just energy that is condensed. On a personal level one of the things I have experienced with the new way of seeing that I enjoy is that it is a lot like art in that it seems to have no other purpose in my life than to be what it is. It is just always there.

Like art, seeing the energies adds a lot of meaning to my experience of life, in a way like seeing the car ahead of mine suddenly slamming on its brakes does. Seeing both bring me into the present moment of now.

The moment I notice the energies I see I am instantly snapped out of my ongoing thoughts and into the possibilities, inspiration and power of the moment of now. Now is the only moment when we can actually be inspired, are empowered and can take action.

Seeing the energies has me more in a state that the Buddhists refer to as mindfulness and the Christians speak of as being in the world but not of it. It is much richer and frankly more fun than my just seeing the way I did before.

The new way of seeing learned through the Art of Seeing The Divine experiences can be called mindful vision.

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