In this week’s episode I wanted to share a little story with you because I realized in the last few weeks as I’ve been navigating some personal challenges in my life as well as some things in business that I found myself over focusing on the details… let’s call it the problem, the circumstances and trying to move around the known pieces in the box of my known reality trying to figure things out.
If you’re in a place where maybe you feel hyper focused on the problem or you may even feel a lot of stress or anxiety or overwhelm in your body, my hope is that sharing this perspective with you will give you some relief by taking the pressure off and being able to see things from a greater perspective.
In my most recent chat with Jessie May Wolfe on HeartRise Method we talked about her book High On Heart. I love how she frames this and what she calls “winks.” Call them signs or signals or things that show up in your life and come into your awareness where you start to feel a resonance that this has a message for you.
I started to notice that these past few weeks when I was really hyper focused on trying to tackle the problem, I was approaching it from the ground level.
One day I was sitting outside and as I looked up, I saw an eagle in a tree. It was interesting because I had this dialogue in my head… is that a hawk, is that an eagle, what is it? And then the bird shifted it’s head left and I could see it’s white head and yellow beak.
When I knew it was an eagle I started to look at the eagle and wonder what message the eagle had for me. As I gazed at the eagle and tuned into the consciousness of the eagle, I started to feel the walls and the stress in my body dissolve.
As I started to feel this release of tension, I started to inquire about what the eagle does. I observed the eagle perched up on the tree and tune into the consciousness of an eagle deeper… how they see from this high elevated perspective, their patience, their ability to gain the lay of the land and to be able to really scout and see what the moving pieces and parts are. The really cool thing about this too is I was able to move into the awareness of the eagle and the new perspective of seeing the whole playing field and being able to widen my view and perspective.
As I mentioned, it was like an instant relief and the way that this started to unravel and show up is that literally throughout the next 4 or 5 days there were more confirmations of eagle showing up.
I saw a post about a new book that came out and the caption on it was “the eagle has landed.” And then a friend of mine texted me and said “go eagles,” for the super bowl. The real icing on the cake though… was when I had a session with a client this week and in our conversation, she had expressed about seeing an eagle.
At this point I said in my own awareness and even out loud to myself said… “OK! I get the message.” I believe that when we’ve tried to approach something from our limited human mind’s perspective and we’ve weighed all the options and maybe even exhausted ourselves trying to figure it out that we are given these signs and signals to really help point us in the right direction and sometimes we are given these signs to the degree like I had outlined here… 4, 5, and 6 times repetitively to really drive the point home.
So my invitation for you today is if you find yourself caught in the minutiae and the details and the How, to see if you can adopt the eagles view. This eagles eye perspective of seeing the lay of the land and getting to a place of relief where you’re not hyper focused on what is right in front of you, but you can see the whole playing field.
I’m curious what unfolds for you in this practice and also just start to realize that when you are exercising this perspective is that you are going to be able to see the entire ecosystem or the environment of all the moving pieces and the conditions and circumstances and different things that are present in your life and instead of being pigeonholed in what is just the black and white, yes or no, I have to do it this way or I have to do it that way solution, you’ll be able to see more of the options that could be available and from this place, start to make new options and new choices based on what you see.
Do you see signs and signals pointing you in the right direction or asking you to see a new perspective? Leave me a comment below and let me know how these show up for you.
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