![]() So set your intention to create a gap in your thinking throughout the day. Energy flows to wherever your attention goes. No judgment, just allow a gentle awareness of how you keep interpreting things in the same way, without pausing to reflect on alternatives.īe willing to experiment with looking again. You are simply stuck in “your” way and that’s okay. Let it sink in that there are multiple ways of seeing things. Yet it is in this gap between stimulus and response that the magic happens and something new and life enhancing can be revealed. Our habits of perception are so well established that we never make room for an Aha moment. We never pause to allow the tiniest gap between thoughts, the space for insight. ![]() In this way you not only deprive yourself of the little thrill of excitement, the intrinsic satisfaction that comes with fresh insight but you keep yourself stuck in the past. In every perception you are presented with figure and ground but you lock into what you first perceive as figure, blinding yourself to the alternative perspective. ![]() The way you saw the picture is the way you see everything. The new subject smashes through into the foreground, taking the place of the old picture and voila – the Aha moment! It begins with a split second of brain stall the left-brain hemisphere “seizes up” momentarily and in that tiny gap of confusion, in that impasse of not knowing, the right brain grabs the opportunity to show you something new. The Aha moment that switches things rides along a tide of confusion followed by delicious deliverance. The old hag’s mouth is the young woman’s necklace). (If you need help, the eye of the old hag is the ear of the young woman who is looking away. If you saw the pretty young lady now see the ugly old hag. Whichever you see, let her go now, let her recede into the background and bring the alternative subject to the foreground. Have a look at it - what do you see as figure and what do you see as ground?ĭo you see a pretty young lady or an ugly old hag? We are hardly aware of what we’ve decided to put into the background, or ‘ground’.Ībove is a famous Gestalt picture. When we look at any picture we immediately settle on a main element, the ‘figure’ that we bring into the foreground. To revitalize your life, all you need do is create a little gap and be willing to look again… Aha moments wake you up to how stagnant your views are, and therefore your life is, when you only ever see things from one point of view.
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