I heard the term “deletion creatures” a long time ago. It was describing humans and how our consciousness deletes more than it ever registers.
There was a story of a man who became a vegan, and all of sudden found tones of vegan restaurants on his daily commute that he had never seen in 5 years because he wasn’t aware of or looking for them. Until then he had been deleting them instead of seeing them because vegan wasn’t his focus.
This week I have been mulling over a blog post surrounding the word beautiful. I haven’t written it yet, because I wasn’t sure how to describe what I wanted to say. I wanted to talk about the essence of having a beautiful life and adding beauty into my life just by focusing on it instead of deleting it.
Then serendipitously I was listening to a completely unrelated talk by Tony Robbins and he said “the only way to have a great life is to find beauty in whatever happens in life…because life it too short to suffer.”
He said the entire blog post I’ve been working on in my mind all week… in one sentence. I love that mans mind!
And I really love when the answer I’m searching for bonks me right in the nose.
Life is so much easier when we don’t have to rely on our own devices to come up with the answers…they are shown to us if we just keep ourselves open.
To stay open so you can recognize the answers when they show up is just one of the ways to find beauty in whatever happens in life.
Sometimes it’s looking at the situation from a different view to see what’s good.
Sometimes it’s in the backwards gratitude of looking at how far you’ve come.
Sometimes it’s knowing that things are changing because to be stagnant means loss of vitality.
But the beauty is always there if you look for it.