Seeing the world around us is important as it allows us to step out of our thinking mind and into the moment. When walking to work, or to the shops or walking the dog, if we leave our phone in our pocket or at home and then choose to look up or sideways, or even stop and take a moment to appreciate the background that is there all the time, we then step into the conscious moment.
Normally, we would walk head down, often staring at our phones or just stuck in our thoughts, and we then miss the amazing that is in every single moment that we view as ordinary.
Today, when walking in the forest with the dog I came across the amazing toadstool pictured above, a magical thing of beauty that is nature. I stopped and observed it, wondering at its amazing beauty, like something from a fairytale.
There a magical ‘toadstools’ contained in the background of every moment of our entire life and when we see them we realise that we have stopped thinking and we are just being.
Philip Dodson 