The Shield of Perspective

This wall was erected a few years ago to protect the streets and homes by the seashore.  You can see broken up remnants of a former wall in the water by the wall below. This wall is a kind of shield. 

So often in our lives we use shields to give us perspective.  Sometimes it is putting a halt to behaviors, or responses from others.  Sometimes we have to reflect on them, deciding how we want to respond.  That is, if we want to respond at all.  Most of the work is within. 

We can shield our own thoughts as well.  There are days we don't feel homeostatic.  We feel just out of sorts.  Often there isn't an explanation, although our trained brain searches for one.  We can untrain the brain and let things be as they are.  Meditation helps that a lot.

When we can, we want to stop the stormy seas in our minds.  These thoughts often are external ones, having little to do with who we are.  Unless we allow that. Most of these thoughts we had the day before and the day before that.  95% of our thoughts are repetitive ones. 

A new friend inquired how to simplify their life.  Working in an IT field, this fellow wanted out of the rat race.  He wanted to find that elusive peace.  

"But how did you do it?" he implored.

"I just did."

Day by day, breath by breath.  Sometimes we are off a bit.  It is only the naming of it that gives it form.  What would happen if we just acknowledged it and let it go? 

I'm off to enjoy a morsel of chocolate.  That, too, works wonders.

Namaste