dailydatewithgod

One of the super powers we forget to use more often is noticing. Not just seeing, but noticing.  Looking past what is obvious and pay close attention to what is happening at any given moment.  Noticing heightens our observation level allowing us to take in a full picture and experience the moment outside our defaulted boundaries.  Within noticing we are able to pick up on distinctions.  As we hone our skill of noticing we can make the distinction between what is happening and any meaning we are attaching to it. Our reaction to an experience comes from the distinction of what we are making something mean.  What is happening is just what is happening.  What we are noticing, is what we are noticing.  None of it has any meaning. Practicing this allows us to pick up on the pattern of distinctions we make in our meaning.  It is easy to not pick up on the distinction of what we are making something mean and just assume how we are experiencing something is exactly what it is but we lose out.  Our distinctions of meaning give us an indication of what we are called to play with in this life.  If I stop to notice, I pick up on how when one coworker provides an update on her project, I make the distinction that she is speaking defensively.  I can stop and look at why I label her language as defensive on her use of words versus another coworkers update.  Do I make the same distinction when reading her emails?  Do I make the same distinction with others but only on this particular project or all projects?  We find we can question our distinctions to provide indications of how we are thinking and feeling about a particular person or experience.  Stopping to notice these internal distinctions enables us to respond versus reacting to what we are noticing.