Invisible Connections
By Catherine Viel
Posted January 27, 2022
Half my thoughts still originate
in Paleolithic sub-Saharan
Africa, the other half in
any question I put to my-
Dr. Peebles recently gave me an exercise: close the eyes and focus on the palms of the hands, only on the palms of the hands, to quiet the mind and bring attention to the present. And after that, open the eyes, look at something specific, but immediately bring the attention back to the palms.
It creates an odd but pleasant sensation, a split awareness, one where the thing-seen is not labeled or even “known,” but impartially observed, because the attention is on the palms. I likened it to looking with the detached absorption of an artist, to see the thing itself without preconceiving “what it is,” since drawing with a rigid idea of what something is means not seeing what it actually is.
Yesterday, when I was looking out the kitchen window but bringing my attention to the palms of my hands, something different happened. I had a sense or an awareness of being right where I...
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catherine viel, imagination, invisible, onnections, peace
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