Sense of Sight: Sight-Based Activities
Sight-based activities correspond with the Sanguine Temperament, Blood, Hot/Wet, Air Element, Spring, the Astral Body, Tree of Life: World of Yetzirah (of Formation), Solar Plexus (Manipura) and Sacral (Svadhisthana) Chakras, the Yellow and Orange Aura Color Personalities, the Senses of Sight and Taste, the Emotion of Fear, and YAM (part of God's name).
- Take a one-day vacation. Nothing brings back perspective like a day in the country away from everything. Nature soothes. It's a part of us. We all need roots, and nature provides this. So go out, see the sights, and get energized!
- Place a vision on your visor. Place a picture of someone you love on your vehicle visor. Your energy wellness is affected by the things you see around you. My granddaughter, Malaysia, never ceases to make me smile. When I'm in traffic and look up and see her on my visor, my mood instantly shifts to "happy".
- Add some flowers to a room. Flowers in the home and garden are instant eye candy. Go and buy yourself some fresh cut flowers today or a couple of potted flowers for the window sill. Maybe it's time to plant some wildflowers in the yard. If you are allergic to flowers and grasses, visit an arts and crafts store and purchase silk flowers to arrange. They can be just as beautiful and less expensive in the long run.
- Choose a symbol. Symbols are all around us, no matter where we look. They are also inside of us. Placing a symbol in your car, office, or home that you can often see will remind you of an intention (something you are striving for). One idea would be to paint a rock with your symbol of choice and use it as a door stopper.
- Schedule a visit to a museum, an exhibit, or an antique store. Schedule an afternoon by yourself or with friends and family to visit an art museum, car show, arts and crafts fair, or some other event or destination where the idea is to look at what's on display. It offers the mind a break from routine and monotonous thought patterns.
- Wear color tinted glasses. One of my favorite pick-me-ups is wearing a pair of tinted sunglasses that have orange-tinted lenses. When I first put them on, the whole world looks "Orange". However, within just a couple of minutes, everything I see returns to its original hue but better, stronger, brighter, and more vivid than ever. Trees are greener, the sky a bolder blue, and the sea a vibrant green instead of a moss-colored canvas. Orange tinted glasses are worth every penny if you can find them.
- Inspect something in nature. When's the last time you just bent over and inspected a blade of grass, the pattern of a butterfly's wings, the lines in a leaf? Go outside, look around, and see your world and the natural things that live in it with you.
- Watch a "good" movie, film, or documentary that's uplifting, funny, teaching, or inspiring.
- Draw a picture. Do you remember when you were little, and you'd spend hours coloring pictures in your color book? Your world existed only at that moment while experimenting with different colors and trying to stay, ever so carefully, within the lines. And, remember, when coloring in school, how your classmate's voices would drift away, and you would all but forget your teacher was even in the room? You can do that again. Go ahead. Buy yourself some crayons and a color book, and let go of all of your problems for the moment.
- Read a "good" book. There's nothing like a good book to come back to over the space of several days to keep you looking forward to something. Sometimes, just looking through magazines and "coffee table" books (on decorating, other cultures, countries, art, etc.) can give you back your perspective and inspire you toward new creations.
- Twenty minutes of embroidering is proven to be equal to 20 minutes of meditation. So, pick up some needle and thread and mend that seam or go down to the crafts store and check out their embroidery information and supplies. While you are there, consider other hobbies as well.
- Take a drive. Sometimes, getting away from it all as fast as you can is what is necessary. The next time you need to get out and clear your head, take a drive but take a route that affords you a lovely look at nature. Drive the speed limit and enjoy your surroundings. If you find a particularly lovely spot, get out and breathe the fresh air. No car? Are gas prices too high? Take a walk for at least 20 minutes. Strolling is fine. Focus only on what you see around you.