Close Your Eyes

Why is it that everyone of us is so blindfolded? Why are our eyes closed on the inside? We see, but we don't see, or we see what we selectively are open to seeing.

Why do we listen, but are unable to hear? It is as though we have only tuned in to one frequency and have the rest firmly shut. We hear but a few preselected channels. We hear what we want to hear.

Why when God gave us such beautiful hearts to feel with and love, have we hardened them and desensitised them to the point that we have grown cold and heartless?

Close your eyes, humanity, so that you can see.

Stop scanning your periphery with your external eyes and ears and turn inwards to your heart. Your heart will not lie.

Close your eyes and with your eyes firmly shut, breathe. Breathe in life through your nostrils. With each breath, breathe in gratitude and humility and grace. In this space of no distraction feel the essence of who you are. Observe the sensations in your physical body. Notice the sounds around you and how much more acute they sound.

In the stillness, with your eyes on the inside, can you feel the essence of who you are? Do you feel like you're home? Do you feel the sweet presence of self, of soul?

With your eyes still closed, can you identify your sex or the colour of your skin? Can you possibly know how old you are or what nationality, what profession you have, whether you're rich, successful or popular? Without peripheral eyes, can you imagine what your physical body looks like?

Our only truth is that we are spirit, a divine portion of God essence, pure and beautiful and peaceful. Can you feel your spirit essence, the real you on the inside? This is your higher self, your parent self, the wise one that stays at home, whilst your child self is occupied with the worldly stuff of making and breaking friendships, choosing loyalties, building empires, amassing wealth and waging wars.

There is no greater truth than this: We are Spirit. Spirit is energy and can therefore never be destroyed. Spirit can be transferred into another form but is nevertheless eternal and ageless.

Open your eyes again and allow your senses to be entertained with the explosion of colour and the intrigue of your surroundings. Can you still feel the connect to your parent you, the real essence of who you are in the background of all the distraction around you? Can you feel the spectator you, the consciousness behind the facade?

Now I ask, with this knowledge of your innate spirit self : "Why do we humans choose to wage war with ourselves and with the rest of humanity? Why do we obsess about our outer beauty which is transient? Why do we alienate ourselves from our families, our fellow citizens of earth, ourselves? Why do we stress about possessions and amassing wealth, worry about not having enough and defending and protecting what we have?"

On the inside none of this matters. On the inside we are love, there is no lack, no fear. On the inside we are complete. On the inside we are one and the same.

How easily we become distracted. How desensitised we are to the needs of those around us. We see the world we have created through our eyes and opinions, through our self righteousness.

We make one set of rules that serve us and an entirely different set of rules for others. But we don't see that. We seek to satisfy our greed and justify our ways. How sad that we create division amongst our families, by favouring ours and disowning theirs. We visit our parents, but disown our in-laws. We insist on our independence, but deny our partners theirs. We see the flaws in others, but are blind to our own.

Let's wake up from our deep deception, our biased perceptions and justifications.

Let's close our eyes to see, to hear and to feel. Let's reach out and touch each other with our souls.

I send you love from my soul
Have a beautiful week

Nicolette