The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Suggested Invitation for Day 11
Owl Eyes
For many of us, we have become accustomed to spending a lot of our time focusing our attention on specific things in front of us. This can sometimes lead to us experiencing less awareness of other things going on all around us. Sometimes this can result in us failing to notice the beauty that is all around.
In order to increase your nature connection and redevelop your awareness of nature it can help to practice both ‘focused vision’ and ‘wide-angled’ or peripheral vision. Owls have an impressively broad peripheral vision. Their eyes are also tube-shaped and don’t move, so you'll never see an owl move its eyes. Instead, it moves its head to shift its view - an owl can turn its head up to 270 degrees!
Today from your Sit Spot we are inviting to practice ‘Owl Eyes’:
Start by focusing your vision on something ahead of you in the distance.
Now soften your focus and, without moving your head or your eyes, begin to take in as much as you can from left and right of that point.
Continue to soften your gaze and take in as much as you can from above and below the original point.
Practice this less focused, wide-angled point of view for as long as you wish and then just sit and ‘be’.


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