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Just published: Martha Treat March 2024
The Starting Place; Looking and Seeing
It all begins with looking and seeing. Watching a baby only a few weeks old taking in the new world around them opens my heart with wonder.
Recently I experienced one of those magical looking and truly seeing moments.
One early morning my walking buddy and I watched as through the dense fog this magnificent sunrise displayed itself before us on Shelf Road in Ojai. I could only look with awe and wonder.
(Photo by Irene Tirella)
Later I knew the lesson for me in the sunrise moment was focusing more on the awe and wonder in the completing part of my life. Keeping my attention fully absorbed in what is unfolding before me without jumping ahead to conclusions, wanting to explain, telling others, etc. keeps the awe alive.
Looking and seeing, breathing in and breathing out and pausing to be with what is, allows the revealing of a next step. In the sunrise moment as it delivered its majesty, there was only one thing to do, watch in wonder.
The photo was taken by someone we did not know and a few weeks later she shared it with us on the trail. Her photo captured that divine moment in a way I could not have. The blessing of letting go in that moment vs trying to hold on to it was the magic. Seeing myself in the picture touched my heart and reminded me of the blessing of being fully present to what is.
In our work we can choose to take the time to look and see before jumping ahead and deciding in advance what needs to happen next. Any quickness, as we all know, can lead to misinterpretation, mistakes, extra work, and missing the obvious. The starting point towards completion is fully absorbing ourselves in our experience by looking and seeing.
Fortunately, that sunrise morning, I could only look because what I was seeing had no words. I knew I was seeing glory moving before me. Taking a photo or video I would have missed the experience of being fully immersed in the display before me. That moment reminded me to honor what is before me and allow myself to be still and simply be with what is. Not unlike the experience of listening to another soul with my 100% focused attention.
When we are willing to put ourselves fully in the picture, looking and seeing starts the process of the continuous flow of steps to follow, unfolding us to the end result.
Martha Invitations
1. If you start to hurry up, stop for a moment and just look and see.
2. Watch the tendency to decide something before you have fully seen it.
3. Let yourself be absorbed in the clouds passing overhead and notice how it calms you to the moment.
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Martha
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