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Daily Question, November 30

What happens when you look with fresh eyes?

  • Malag

    Always believe in sleeping on it. Often walk away from an email and look at it again later. Fresh eyes in both cases. I can see it a bit differently or maybe the same. Sometimes I have insight on how to handle it.

  • Memarge

    You see things you missed before.

  • Hot Sauce

    When I look at the world with fresh eyes, some of the problems that seemed so big before seem irrelevant compared to the beauty found in nature and in the universe.

  • Marilyn

    Looking with fresh eyes means pausing, taking a breath, and resetting my perspective, often putting me on a better path.

  • Don Jones

    For me it is looking from a place which is beyond the limitation of my eyes. Beyond the limitations of the body and beyond the limitations of the mind, thoughts and emotions. It is there that pure bliss resides.

  • Mica

    There’s a green flower bud on a plant in a pot on my balcony – I don’t even know where that plant came from, and I certainly never expected it to have flowers. The pot mainly has snake plant in it – the last ones from some my son bought about 20 yrs ago.

  • Antoinette

    Fresh eyes would help me get through the pain and suffering from this migraine.

    • Michele

      Wishing your migraine subsides and leaves you pain free:)

    • Mica
      Migraines are so dreadfully close to us. Pain in other parts of the body seems more bearable. ヾ(≧▽≦*)o [This emoji looks like it might have a migraine!] But I’m reminded now of Byron Katie, who says to turn everything around. [“I’m not suffering from this migraine”? Hmmm…] But it might be worth a try – The Work of Byron Katie thework.com The Work is a simple a process of remaining alert to and questioning stressful thoughts. It is a simple, powerful, and effective me...

      Migraines are so dreadfully close to us. Pain in other parts of the body seems more bearable. ヾ(≧▽≦*)o [This emoji looks like it might have a migraine!]
      But I’m reminded now of Byron Katie, who says to turn everything around. [“I’m not suffering from this migraine”? Hmmm…] But it might be worth a try –
      The Work of Byron Katie
      thework.com
      The Work is a simple a process of remaining alert to and questioning stressful thoughts. It is a simple, powerful, and effective meditation practice.

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  • Zenith

    What are ‘fresh eyes’? I also don’t believe freshness can come with out first withdrawing from a situation even for the briefest of time, putting a bit of mental space between us. Then we can gain perspective and come back to reapply ourselves. Freshness demands a change in thinking which can take time to cement, such as trying to reverse a lifelong habit of ‘seeing negatively’. It does take time to reverse. But it does impact how we view life generally.

    • Mica

      Me, too, Zenith! ‘Fresh eyes’ is a funny combo, isn’t it?

  • Lauryn

    Your focus is reset. You see details and perspectives you didn’t realize in the moment. You second guess yourself perhaps.

  • Javier Visionquest

    The human assemblage point shifts and, perhaps, some latent and entrenched expectations have been decimated to bring alternate perspectives and unimagined possibilities into focus. What is it that brings about “fresh eyes”? Facts change, truth is subjective, and belief is an impediment to an open mind.

  • Tammyhi

    When you look with fresh eyes you can look at things with less bias and a clearer understanding than before. Your vision isn’t as clouded.

  • Papilio

    Looking with fresh eyes gives me a new perspective and new attitude. I used to walk the exact same route with my dog every morning. One day I decided to walk the same route, but backward. I was amazed by how different the familiar houses and hills looked. I think that we have a tendency to cling to something familiar in our thought process without realizing.

  • Carla

    Looking with New eyes leads to New views & opens more possibilities of how I see & experience something. Sometimes judgement is completely removed, intuition can return.

  • Trish

    Fresh eyes bring unexpected delights. I can see the gifts in front of me instead of the “same ole thing.” I see beauty without having to sludge through the mud to find it.
    So much beauty….

  • devy

    When you see with fresh eyes, ones perspective can change about a situation or person. Sometimes it means pulling away, gathering thoughts and emotions, contemplating about them and then return to deal with things better.

  • Mike S

    In some way the world feels different. If I have seen s personal fault that I was previously unaware of, the experience can at first be painful, then, as I grow into the new awareness, it feels liberating.

  • Kevin

    What happens when I look with fresh eyes? I see new things!

  • EJP

    Fresh eyes enable us to see new opportunities and endless possibilities.

  • Michele

    When you look with fresh eyes, one may offer a different perspective on something perhaps.

  • Ose

    Sometimes, I might not have been aware of what my thoughts and actions might do to others. Looking with fresh eyes, I am allowed to realize the impact, or part of it. For the awareness happening I am deeply grateful, and with new awareness, I am able to let go of the wrong(ed) perspective. Thank you for your kind question, dear Gratefulness-team. Wishing all a peaceful week.

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