Where's our focus?

Things are not always what we think they are.

Or, seeing is not believing.

This little optical illusion is making its way around the Internet.

The link below goes to a circle of moving dots. They appear to be all pink. But if you focus on the center of the circle, one dot becomes green and scurries around the circumference.

The instructions say if you really focus on the center of the circle, the pink dots fade away, and you only see the green dot.

http://www.tonyboon.co.uk/imgs/illusions/dotcircle.htm

One conclusion might be that what we see depends on where we look, where our focus is.

Taking this a step further, if we are looking only at all our problems (all those pink dots), that's all we are going to see.

But if we change our focus to the good that is central to our very being, to that Higher Power that most people believe in, we see something that wasn't apparent before.

And then, instead of just going around and around in circles, our glimpse of spiritual reality (green dot) leads us to think in new ways that break out of the cycles of limitation. Solutions become apparent, even if sometimes only a step at a time.

Our willingness to leave old ways of looking at things for more inspired views gives us courage to take steps we might not have thought of before.

We are never trapped. Often what's needed for progress is a change of focus.

A 19th century spiritually-minded woman observed,

Mortal mind sees what it believes
as certainly as it believes what it sees.
Mary Baker Eddy
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