Your Face

What look is on your face right now? This is a good awareness exercise. All day we never see our own face, unless we look in a mirror, and then we see only ourself in reverse. Other people are looking at our face, as we look at theirs, but we can never see our own complete image in the way that others do, without a camera, a mirror, or some other reflection.

Relaxed awareness is the best place to live from. Right now this minute, how many muscles in your face do you think you are using to maintain tension, pain, fear, or sadness? How many muscles to maintain the image of who you think you are?

Without trying to necessarily change the look on your face as you go throughout your day, become aware of the muscles in your face. Become aware of the tension. Become aware. Not with the idea that you must look different, more attractive, or pleasing to someone else, but with the idea that tension hurts. Tense muscles use up energy.

What you become aware of begins to lose control over you. What you are not aware of controls you. 

I love those angelic words, don't you? The angels simply ask us to become aware. Trying to change, to be different, is so difficult. Here in our school we learn that you must only become aware of what causes you to suffer, to be in tension. The awareness itself begins to change us. Awareness does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. No one who becomes aware of a face full of tension will want to keep that face. Right?

Remember patience. Real change happens from the inside out. Maybe inner changes take a long time to show up on your face--maybe not--but what's important is what's changing on the inside. 

Much love now and always.

Maulburg, Germany Happy Days 2014