Distortion?

We all see things unclearly at times, maybe some of us are more prone to impute negative motives onto people or conditions than others, especially those of us who have been traumatised. I know there is a powerful prayer which we can pray to God or the Higher Self for us to see things rightly rather than through the lens of self centred fear. Sometimes we just get so wrapped up in our own perception and cocktail of emotions and thoughts its hard to understand how it is for the other person who only wants their distress soothed. Sometimes that is not our job, but never the less it can surely be good to bring comfort at times when we can. Sometimes though sadness or pain can be educative.

I saw an altercation between a young dad with his two children and a woman in the shopping centre on Tuesday afternoon, I don’t know what happened but maybe one of the kids bumped into the lady. Anyway they were locked in this fight wanting each other to see their own reality but neither could cleave from the hurt of their own pain at the time….to offer that. It was not lost on me.

I had my own incident last night of imputing negative motives onto someone who actually turned out to be helpful and prove me wrong this morning, at the same time as I watched a new add for Beyond Blue on depression and anxiety which shows a man worrying about a bad outcome in a work interview and being proved wrong when he actually undergoes the interview.

Just how often does our fear or pain or past bad experience lead us to distort things? What are our techniques for self calming or self soothing? If we have had a lot of hurt then our psychic pain body can be so powerful and it may be triggered by seemingly innocuous incidents but they were probably powerful triggers on some level.

Anyway this issue of distortion in perception is something I am contemplating as Mercury continues it last 7 days of retrograde movement in Pisces. I am seeing some things much more clearly today and I am so grateful for that. Today I am counting my blessings for all the love and positive energy that is currently surrounding me in my life. In the midst of the ‘bad’ there is so much good and how would I know the one without the other?

I would love to pass the blessing on this morning. Happy Thursday to all readers or followers where ever you are in the world today. Wishing you peace.