Comments on: Be Overwhelmed!

By: Crazy Mind | Sacred Witness

Crazy Mind | Sacred Witness — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:32:17 +0000

[...] been with us for so many years. It takes great courage, support, and openness to step out of our limited view to a more expansive view.I find it worth the effort.Do you have a crazy mind story or a time where [...]

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:58:45 +0000

Moira, thank you for your beautiful comment. Yes, and amen, to appreciating what can be found in the tight spots, etc. And actually, I needed to hear just that today.

BTW, I just went to your site and your images are stunning!

Thank you all for the wonderful conversation today. My frame of reference has been expanded as a result.

By: Moira Pomeroy

Moira Pomeroy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:44:31 +0000

Beautiful image. I love how you obviously “click” with the animals, too! (Pun intended.)

If you’re looking for different perspectives then you’re going to visit a lot of limited spaces (both as a photographer and as a human being). And I think it’s important to do this; until you do, you can’t truly “own” your personal outlook on life because you haven’t really chosen it, you’ve just fallen into it by chance.

It’s important to keep looking for the wide-open spaces, yes. But it’s also important to appreciate what can be found in the corners, the tight spots, the precarious perches – like the beautiful image in this post.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:31:28 +0000

Amen, Carla. How beautifully you phrase ideas—and make your readers think. Hiding behind the tree can be comforting—-but how small life is when you remain there.

By: Marian Van Eyk McCain

Marian Van Eyk McCain — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:49:28 +0000

Frames are such paradoxical things. They are limiting and they are also useful.Sometimes – as often happens in psychotherapy – the trick to helping someone come out from behind the tree is to offer them a new frame to look through. I think once we realize that there is an infinite choice of frames we are more ready to live framelessly.
Yet still, as Linda suggests,there are times when we need a frame in order to steady our focus.
An interesting theme to ponder. Thanks, both of you.

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:47:11 +0000

Well said, Linda! You make an excellent point. I have certainly spent much of my life being stuck in the limitations. I can see how it is necessary to actually step back behind the tree from time to time. I just don’t want to stay there. And I see so many in our culture today who are stuck there. You are certainly NOT someone who comes to mind! I appreciate your openness and expansiveness.

By: Linda Thurman

Linda Thurman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:34:03 +0000

Wonderful metaphor, Carla — it’s always beneficial to see the many possibilities until the scope becomes so broad and the mind so crowded with unrelatedness that we need a frame of reference to give some order to it. I can be the one who stays open to the many possibilities and never gets grounded enough in one to be productive. I can also be the one who severely limits myself to calm the anxiety of overwhelm. We’re either always working with one end of a polarity or conflicted while holding the two extremes. Yours is a beautiful representation of being stuck in the frame of limitation.