Lesson 2 – You give everything you see meaning

Lesson 2 was comical and fascinating.

Quote from the text that lit up as I read it, spoke to me in some way, then my learning from the lesson.

Text: I have given everything I see in the room all the meaning it has for me.

Learning: This lesson felt different, to look at a tree; or my hand or the table or couch, cash or a drink it fascinated me that the meaning I gave was mine and mine alone to claim, to own. To see my hand and question the meaning that I gave it and to realise that I could make it mean anything spent my mind into a deer in headlights moment, it froze and couldn’t compute what I was asking it to perceive, it was comical. What if a burger didn’t actually have the meaning that was food, what if the meaning you gave was that it was the oracle of all truth and needed an altar in your home.

I admit I was challenged to do this with absolute presence because I was sleep deprived from my 3.5 year old waking at 2.36am and asking for water, I was curious as to how this would impact my learning today.

The lesson was that the responsibility of the meaning in my world is mine. When I am aware and present in the moment, I can perceive my world how I want. When I am tired, stressed or holding tension it is far more challenging to perceive the world in this way.

With Lighthearted play,

Shaylin