Change
in Perspective
“Even
the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.”
Joshua Kai (The Quantum Prayer: An Inspiring Guide to Love, Healing, and Creating
the Best Life Possible)
My
friends will tell you that I am no Pollyanna. I am not a continuous ray of
sunshine, believe me. In fact, I tend to point out the darkness in the world
rather than dwell in the light. But I have learned that behind every darkness,
there is light, and behind every light there is darkness. If we are conscious
of that, there is every possibility of shifting perspective and allowing ourselves
to see both at the same time.
We can
look at what is going on in the world—a pandemic, massive loss of life, wars,
internal bickering, racism, inequality and injustice, the rich and ungodly rich
maneuvering for power and position—there is so much that seems just awful and
unnecessary. Or we can see all of that as a catalyst for awakening—something so
terrible and unthinkable that it snatched us from our sleepwalking unreality. We
can adjust our perspective enough to see that alongside all the awfulness, good
things are also happening. Because the good stuff gets almost no press, we don’t
even know about it. Just scratch the surface, and you’ll find that people are
helping people everywhere.
Sometimes,
we have to dig ourselves so deeply into the darkness that the only way out is
up. When we stop digging, and look up, we see a tiny glimmer of light up there
and know in which direction to move. I once had a vision that I was sitting
somewhere out in space looking down on a spiral galaxy. It was massive, with arms spread out wide below me. Some of the arms were bright with stars,
and some were dark, as though a shadow blocked them from the light. Someone beside
me said, “We’re in a period of light right now, but the darkness will return.”
At the time, I could only marvel at the billions of bright stars even though I
heard the message and knew it was temporary. Everything is temporary.
We may
be in the dark right now; but this too is temporary. We can change our
perspective to understand that light and dark are complementary and that we need both. We will have times when the darkness is heavy
upon us, when we feel burdened by it, but that too is temporary. We will have
times of jubilation, of joy and contentment, and that is transitory as well.
All of it is important—good or bad. All of it provides grist for our mill and
pushes us toward deeper understanding of the nature of reality. And this IS reality—dark
and light in equal measure. The darkness is not always bad or wrong, and the
light is not only good and right—they are equal partners in the evolution of
the human psyche. How would our lives be different if we changed our
perspective to include both?
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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