A New Kind of Seeing - #201

My eye is healed. Many thanks for all the support and love this week. I appreciated your personal stories describing problems you were having with various body parts. Together we were exploring the mystery of body parts!

In Post 200, I quoted David Ulrich* who spoke of  the exchange of energy that occurs between us and what we are paying attention to.

Ulrich continues: "In losing the sight of my eye, I learned to depend to a greater extent on efforts toward self-awareness and connecting with my own body and feelings."

Three days in the dark, nursing the corneal abrasion, made me wonder what life would offer if I couldn't see.

I remembered Kate, my massage therapist, mentioning when she needs to evoke feelings of love, she gazes at a picture of her favorite dog.

Thinking of Kate's technique, I  remembered a deckle edged black and white photo of my first dog Yip.  I was on my knees with my right hand reached out touching his back.

Lying in the dark, I felt my way into a memory of that relationship with Yip.

It was an experience that didn't require my eyes.  

What do you see with your eyes closed? Remember the movie Eyes Wide Shut? What did that mean? Do you take care of your eyes? Tell us about your relationship with your eyes. Or your first pet. Or anything you want us to know about seeing.

Thanks for exploring the mystery of seeing - Nicky Mendenhall



*The Widening Stream by David Ulrich (2002).