It doesn’t have to be! You have all the tools you need already to expand your horizons infinitely.

If we spend our time only using our mind to perceive reality, we miss out on a lot of what’s going on. We miss out on all of the things that our mind simply doesn’t pick up on.

Same if we’re only relying on our body/gut/intuition/instinct (however you think of that kind of perception). Or only navigating using our emotional intelligence.

We’re limiting our reality down to just one kind of perception: mental, or physical, or emotional, etc. It’s like only seeing one color when there’s a whole rainbow of variety out there.

This is quite simple to change… start paying attention to the other ways you have of perceiving. Get used to blending together your different modes of perception and you’ll get a much better picture of what’s going on around (and in) you. You’ll get the whole rainbow of reality.

Add in one at a time (add body to your mind or vice versa), get used to the new blend, then add another… and notice how your reality gets richer and richer, more and more colorful.

This is especially helpful if you’re ever feeling stuck, lost, etc.

As you add in other ways to perceiving, you will see how to get un-stuck, etc. Even better you’ll notice that you weren’t actually stuck or lost at all… you just weren’t “seeing” what else is here.

This is incredibly helpful with depression and anxiety. With a richer pallet, we begin to see how to evolve out of these as well.

The best news is that you have all of these modes of perception already! All you need to do is pay more attention to them so that your picture of reality includes all of the colorful parts available to you.

Enjoy painting!