I like to think of my consciousness as a circle drawn on a piece of paper. Within the circle is all the knowledge, understanding about life and existence and everything that I have experienced and come to accept as possible, real and normal within my daily life. A few years ago the circle of my consciousness was smaller than it is today. This is as it should be.
It is a very useful skill to be able to clearly reappraise one’s present situation in life and the current sense of direction and purpose. I’ve always been struck by the sense that my life could be very limited if I failed to be creative enough to think of new possibilities. New courses of action. The problem is that if one is not creative to begin with one may fail to understand that the capacity for creative options, solutions and plans of action or life direction exists. Such in-the-moment reflective skill is not necessarily something that can be called upon in times of high stress and confusion if it has not been previously developed.
