Super Powers

My son talks about developing super powers.   His imagination has been influenced by what he has seen in myths like “X Men”.  I like to think that he simply has a craving for abilities that he already has but hasn’t yet uncovered. I am thrilled that he is willing to explore what those abilities might be.

It has been my life-long search that finally recognized the abilities I had but never used.   My practice of mindfulness, aided by meditation, has helped me realize that I have power I never anticipated.   I am gradually beginning to learn how to see beyond appearances, and sometimes it seems that I have entered another, alternate reality.    Things are no longer what they seemed a year ago.

I am learning to see and hear with my whole body, not just my eyes and ears.   A touch with my hand is no longer an isolated experience but something that resonates through my whole physical self.   A hug is an experience of someone’s presence that radiates awareness through my entire body.

I know this is not a discovery of some kind of super power but a simple realization of what I can do as a human being living in the 21st century.   For so much of my life I have practiced at living in a world of appearances.   I have been content and become adept at it.   I am just beginning to learn how to be aware of what lies beyond appearances.   I walk through my garden with a new kind of vision.   I enjoy it so much more.

I am learning that by not staring, I can see beyond.   I am able to see with a relaxed vision that has developed only by practice.   It is an ability I was born with, but only partly used.    Now that I have lifted the corner of the veil, I am excited to see what is really there.