"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" – Wayne Dyer
We all are familiar with the children’s song “Itsy – Bitsy Spider” that was sung to us when we were little. It is a simple song with an easy to follow tune. Each note has a specific tone and measure/gap (how long it lasts) in order to follow along with and enjoy the song. Similarly, the words of this sentence are made up of letters (tones) put together to give meaning with a gap in between each word to provide timing. What if there were no gaps?
Whatwouldthesentencelooklikeiftherewerenogaps?
The sentence might be difficult without the gaps between words and we might be easily overwhelmed as we try to understand. The same goes for music, conversation, events, our own thoughts and even meditation. Without some form of gap, everything would be presented as overwhelming chaos. Yet, as we focus on things (notes, clouds, words, history, thoughts, etc.) we are usually not aware of the gaps between.
As an experiment, unfocus your eyes just a little as you read this page and notice how the gaps jump out at you. As a matter of fact, there are way more gaps than words here. There is an entire blank page that the words float on. Unfocus a little more and the words resemble birds flying in a vast sky. We are programmed to seeing only the words.
which is why we don't notice the gaps. Thoughts and images in our minds are like that too.
We were never taught to rest between our thoughts. Meditation is a practice of falling into “the gaps.” It takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, you realize you have a place to really rest.
Wayne Dyer said, “The paramount reason for daily meditation is to get into the gap between our thoughts and make conscious contact with the creative energy of life itself.”
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