Do you believe that you are surrounded by amazing things? You are. We all are. The thing is that many of us forgot or stopped believing that amazing things can happen for us, to us, or are at our reach. Our beliefs about the wondrous start to die as we grow older because fears and social conditioning start to set in.
One reason I like to hang out with kids is because to them everything is amazing, and they happily express their wonderment and awe. I always wonder why that part of us has to die as we get older. In my early 30's, after spending a good number of years buried in disappointment because nothing "BIG" happened to me, a wise healer told me to start finding the incredible in everyday things because this would help me to start being more open to possibility. Mind you, I was kind of pessimistic back then.
In her office we started with a pen, which at first I saw nothing fantastical about. She told me we weren't going any where until I found something amazing about that pen. She suggested I use my creativity and perhaps to start looking at the pen differently. I stared at that pen for a good 5 minutes and nothing came to me. It looked like just another ordinary blue ballpoint pen, and I thought this exercise was lame. But, since I was paying her big bucks, and was given a mission, I focused because that challenge appealed to the A student in me.
As I stared more at the pen, I started wondering what kind of secrets that pen wrote. I was wondering what kind of notes that healer wrote in her files about her patients, and oh how I'd love to take a peek in those charts because I wanted to see if I was more or less screwed up then other people. All of a sudden I wanted that pen to talk, and things got exciting. When I start to feel like life has gotten dull or boring, I remember that exercise in the healer's office, and I try and consciously find something incredible around me and linger in the joy of that discovery.
The amazing doesn't have to be big things they can be small like learning something new or seeing something in a different light. Today's business card signs are reminders to open yourself to the wonderment of life. You never know what you may discover!
