Dogwood
Exploring the inner reaches of your consciousness
is not a difficult or mystical or unusual activity. Rather, it is becoming
aware of many of the methods you use to sense things around you, other than
your usual five senses. You are using these (inner) senses constantly. They
work in conjunction with your five senses. Your body, your consciousness, your
emotions are continually spinning a tale of what life is around you based on
the information from all these places.
Many of these inner senses may seem more subtle than the
outer ones but they are just as powerful, if not more so. They are just as
reliable, if not more so. And they are just as worthy of your attention, if
not more so.
Pay attention then, when a strange feeling assails you
that seems to come out of nowhere. Pay attention when you feel a tingle of
pleasure over the entire surface of your skin. Pay attention when you get an
inner urging to call someone or go somewhere or do something. These all are
your inner senses, reminding you that you have more information at your
disposal than the information that is gathered by your five physical senses
alone.
We are Dogwood. We do not have eyes and ears or smell or
touch, the way you do. We feel physically. We sense physically. We know with
inner wisdom. We have a mingling of our inner and outer senses to the point
where we do not clearly distinguish between one and the other. Our feeling can
be likened to many of your combined outer senses. Our knowing can be likened
to your combined inner senses. And we use these outer and inner senses in a
dance that complements and enriches each other in their abilities to gather
the information we need.
See your senses, all of them, inner and outer, working
together in this same dance. Use them all. Acknowledge them all. Become aware
of them all. And watch how their combinations enhance your ability to receive
and filter the information you need. We are Dogwood. Be like us.
There is magic to be found in places you would not expect
to find magic. While you are in a familiar neighbourhood, walk a different
way. Take a different path through this neighbourhood than you usually do,
even if it's just crossing over to the other side of a street before you
usually do. And look to see how the change affects your view of the walk, your
feelings, perspective. It is still familiar, but different. Look around you on
this new path and you will notice new discoveries, new ideas, new
perspectives.
See your life in the same way. Each day is familiar,
perhaps, to the day before, but different. As you feel it with the freshness
that you feel in a walk down a different path, you get a feel for the magic in
change, the beauty in a different perspective and the opportunities for
discovery that you had previously stifled.
We are Dogwood. By maintaining a strong connection to the
source of being, our path can change so drastically, nothing on it is
familiar. And yet we still have a sense of movement, of discovery, of joy, of
creativity. Allow yourself the same. We are Dogwood. Be like us.
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