There are wounds that, instead of opening our skin, open our eyes, when this happens, we only have to collect the pieces of our lost happiness to restore our dignity, a self-esteem necessary to move forward with our heads up and the look. regularly, without looking back, without begging for an impossible reality?
This gesture of discovery or awareness of a truth does not always come after something painful that takes us by surprise without waiting and without anesthesia. Sometimes it happens wheezingly, after several little ones that eventually make it a “big”, like a discreet but persistent Rumor that finally convinces us of something we might have suspected almost from the beginning.
- “Truth slims down and doesn’t break.
- And it’s always above the lie like oil in the water.
- -Miguel de Cervantes-.
From a more spiritual point of view, it is common to speak of the famous “third eye”. It is certainly an interesting and curious concept that, at its root, has a lot to do with the same idea. For Buddhism and Hinduism are in this eye our consciousness and intuition that promote a correct personal awakening. A new state of attention in which we can perceive certain things that sometimes go unnoticed.
Because this is perhaps the biggest problem of people: we look but we do not see, sometimes we get carried away by our routines until we no longer identify and come to dissatisfaction, it is also common to be involved in certain relationships where one does the best. , not realizing that what you have in return is the poison of misfortune.
Opening your eyes to this reality is not a simple awakening of consciousness, it is an act of personal responsibility.
It was Aristotle himself who once said that it is our senses that prevent us from capturing the image of the outside world as a whole, in this sense, it is only when there is a clear desire that we can see the truth, because that is then, the mind comes into true contact with its environment and its revealing details.
It’s not easy to do that. Because you need intent, intuition, critical thinking and, above all, courage to see real situations and circumstances and not how we would like them to be. Saying that many of us enter our realities blindfolded may seem a little dark. , but when people go to a therapist to find the source of their anxiety, fatigue, moodiness and apathy that deprives them of their mind and hope, the professional makes several discoveries.
One is the fierce resistance to seeing things as they really are. “My partner doesn’t like me, yes, sometimes he treats me badly but then, when we reconcile, he becomes that wonderful person who loves me so much. “, in the end I had to leave the relationship with this girl because my parents didn’t like it, but do you always know what’s best for me?””
People often refuse to see things as they are for a variety of reasons: for fear of confronting and discovering themselves, for fear of having to face the truth, for fear of loneliness, not knowing how to react, these psychological resistances are mental obstacles. : barriers that act as defense mechanisms that prevent happiness.
We must not forget that happiness is above all an act of responsibility, because when we finally achieve it, when we can open our eyes, there is no turning back: it is time to act.
A simple, practical and useful way to learn how to open your eyes to the truth is to give your mind a break, we know that this may seem paradoxical, but it’s not about silencing, turning it off, or removing the key. the engine of our mental processes. It’s just a matter of slowing down, connecting this “third eye” that Buddhists talk about.
“The essentials are always invisible to the eyes. ? The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)?
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For this exercise to bring results and open our eyes, we need to practice it daily, the truth will come sooner or later to remove the headband from our hearts and the locks where we were stuck and dissatisfied.
After that, we will no longer be the same and there will only be one choice, one way out and one personal obligation: to look forward to our own freedom and happiness. Looking back is impossible now.
Images courtesy of Kelsey Beckett.