Have you ever starred at a picture and criticized it so much if you looked at it one more stink-in second your retinas would for sure be ruined forever. Ok, so that is a bit dramatic but I began this awful awful practice and then I shut the computer so fast that if your hand had been in there it would have been chopped off. I then proceeded to be disappointed that I was about to engage in yet another poor ugly me session when I thought, wait a minute, what if this too became a practice. What if I opened this computer and only looked for the beauty. Would that help me look at things in the seat of the compassionate observer vs the seat of the critical almighty judger? Ok, so I sorta cheated because the picture that happen to pop up was of my whole family. Let me be honest here I think my husband is HOT. He has beautiful blue eyes and in this picture his eyes are open...ha! Then there is my stunningly gorgeous girls! One with her edgy hair and cutting edge trendiness and the other with her old hollywood glam amplified. I thought this is easy. Then I got to my picture. Surely there is something positive I can squeeze out of this judge mcjudgenstein (it is too a word). Wait for it, wait for it. I was smiling...YES. This may not seem like much but its a start. I think this is a practice I am going to engage in more often. Encourage myself to be in more pictures and then compassionately observe them and well find the good stuff, be honest about the other stuff. Wait am I being honest or critical? I will have to sort that out later. Maybe just maybe I'll quit hiding behind the camera and get in the phOtO?
I challenge you to look at yourself with admiration and love. To see yourself in a different light. Share would ya - I'm lonely!
Cheese!
Michelle
