There are few things in life more satisfying than finding beauty in the simple things. Being able to see that beauty often times means an open heart, an open mind and a positive attitude.
Acquiring a positive attitude can sometimes be difficult, but if one is willing to change their perspective and look at a problem, a challenge or just a simple task with different eyes, it’s possible. Attitudes are the outward portrayal of our inner thoughts. Negativity in our attitude indicates troubled waters beneath.
An open mind is a welcome to all ideas, differences and views. It doesn’t mean discernment is tossed to the wind but that there is no threat to core values from other things not originating in our own minds.
An open heart is the most difficult to nail down because it is not logical and actually is a misnomer. Our hearts are biological in nature and have nothing to do with thoughts and feelings. While it may seem that feelings originate there when something emotional happens to us, it is the physical change of the heart muscle and flow of blood in reaction to our thoughts or surroundings that is felt. An open heart is simply a willingness to feel, whether attached to logic, fact or something not understood.
Of the three, attitude, mind and heart, it is an open heart, the permission to feel, that helps us to see the beauty in the simple things. Sometimes it is not the physical vision that is beautiful, but the feeling itself. It is time to find beauty in the simple things again.
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