Seeing Isn't Believing?

So many of the Law of Attraction gurus tell us that we have to see ourselves in the life we want...in the wildly expensive sports car...on the tropical island beach...in the big mansion....and well, they are actually quite right. BUT...here's the thing: It isn't as easy or ego driven as all that dreaming and wishing and being disappointed when it all doesn't come into fruition.

We have to start with the basics. One key "basic" is to NOT believe what you see and to believe what you DON'T see. How is that possible you ask? Well, I just happen to have a true story that helped me to understand the very important lesson of releasing myself from the restrictions and limitations to the assumptions of the external "truth" surrounding me.

I love walking in Sanford Farm on Nantucket. It is a large conservation area with trails, a pond, a little pine forest, large open areas, old farm foundations, and the ocean. I have walked in Sanford Farm for twenty+ years with and without dogs and with friends and family.  It is my respite back to sanity. I would summarize that I have walked the trails there about three times a week for many of those years.

One day about five years ago I was up and out to the land earlier than I ever had been before. It was beautiful. I walked the first leg of the hike past the large open meadow and then headed to the little pine forest for my usual loop. The walk was gorgeous and I enjoyed being alone.  I always walk the same loop and was returning to the beginning trail when I noticed something shocking. The early morning sun was rising behind me and the meadow was showing a glittering majestic scene as I have never witnessed before in all my years of walking this place. To my right the open field was covered in spider webs. There had to have been thousands upon thousands of shining perfect spider webs of all sizes weaved between the tall meadow grass. I could not move. I was overwhelmed by the beauty, the unbelievable number of webs, and the fact that I had never seen or imagined these spiders and their webs....EVER! I walked past that open meadow for years and even that morning I innocently glided right past a field of tall grass completely unaware, because I could not see them, these thousands of spiders and webs.

I am smiling writing this blog as I remember how much joy it brought me not only to see this entire spider and web world (yes, I love bugs) but also because I was completely BUSTED!!! Up until that moment, if anyone had asked me during all those years I walked Sanford Farm if there was any place there that thousands of webs existed, I would have confidently answered, "NO." They may have asked me why I was so sure of my answer, and I would have calmly replied, "Because I have walked those trails and investigated those areas for many years and I have never seen them."

And yet...there I was...staring at the magical land of spiders and webs as the sun, at just the right angle, lit up the meadow. I had never been in that exact spot before at that exact time. I thought, "WOW! Just because I didn't see these webs doesn't mean that they haven't been here the entire time I have walked this trail." I learned in that moment that my "seeing" is so limited by my angle or by the lens through which I choose to see life around me. Just because the juxtaposition of objects does not afford me the opportunity to see with my eyes, this does not mean that these objects do not exist.

Today surrender to the Truth that what we see with our eyes is limiting. Have a joyful day knowing that there are glistening webs existing in our familiar world, even if we have not had the opportunity to see them yet. Those things we want that we are trying so hard to see ourselves having...well, let's stop looking so hard. Let's relax and know that seeing isn't believing. Believe first, and then surely we will see.

This video is hilarious and just what the Law of Attraction Doctor ordered!!!