There Is No Turning Back When The Eyes Have Been Opened

There are wounds that instead of opening up our skin open up our eyes. Once the eyes have been opened, there is no choice but to take the broken fragments of our lost happiness and try to rebuild our own dignity. We need to find the self-esteem we need to move forward with our heads held high and look firmly towards the future and not look back, without asking for the impossible.

Awareness of the reality of the situation does not always come after painful events have hurt us without warning and without relief. Sometimes it comes in a more subtle way, when smaller things are combined to create something bigger, as a discreet but lingering reputation that in the end, when the eyes have been opened, convinces us of something we might have suspected from the beginning.

When the eyes have been opened and one speaks from a more spiritual point of view, it is common to speak of what is known as the “third eye”. It is an interesting and unusual concept that has a lot to do with the same idea.

For Buddhism and Hinduism, our consciousness is located in this “eye”, and also as personal intuition that helps us to experience a personal awakening. A new state of being where we can perceive certain things that we have not noticed at other times.

This is perhaps the biggest problem we have: we look but do not see. Sometimes we float along our routines until we finally become dissatisfied. It is also common for us to be caught up in certain relationships where we give everything, without realizing that we are having an accident in exchange. Opening our eyes to these realities is not only an awakening of consciousness, it is also an act of personal responsibility.

It was Aristotle himself who said that our senses simply capture the image of the external world as a whole. We will therefore only see the truth when we really want it, because that is when our mind really connects to everything around and to everything that is shown to us.

It is not easy to detect this. It takes a clear intention, intuition, a critical mind and above all courage to see situations and circumstances as they really are and not as we would like them to be.

To say that many of us go through life blindfolded may sound rather bleak. But when people seek out a therapist to try to find the cause of their anxiety, fatigue, bad mood and the apathy that takes away all their vitality, the therapist often finds several interesting things.

One of them is our total reluctance to see things as they really are. “My partner loves me. OK, he may be treating me badly, but when we sort things out, he’s that amazing person who loves me so much again ” or “ Yes, in the end I had to end that relationship with the girl because my parents did not like her, but they have always known what is best for me… ”.

People often refuse to see things as they really are for many different reasons: for fear of seeing themselves for who they really are, for fear of having to face the truth, for fear of loneliness and not knowing how to react… This Psychological resistance is a mental obstacle: a wall that acts as a defense mechanism that drives away our happiness.

We can not forget that happiness is above all an act of responsibility, because when we finally reach it, when we really open our eyes, there is no turning back: it is time to act:

An easy, practical and useful way to open our eyes to the truth is to let our senses rest. This may sound a little strange but it is not about silencing it, turning it off or removing the keys to the engine for our mental processes. It is simply a matter of slowing down, somehow turning on that third eye that the Buddhists are talking about.

We will show you the steps you need to take:

• Find a peaceful place without stimuli that your senses can pick up (sounds, smells, physical).

• When we try to silence the mind, it is common for annoying and intrusive and useless thoughts to fill our minds: things that we have done or said, things that have happened to us, and things that others have said to us…
• As these intrusive thoughts approach, you should visualize a stone being thrown into a pond. Imagine how it reaches the surface of the water and then disappears.

• As we become better at controlling and repelling intrusive and helpless thoughts, fear and problems will enter our minds, as well as memories that are engraved in our subconscious and that we may not have thought of (a false smile, a derogatory gaze …).
• It is now time to reflect on these feelings and memories and ask ourselves why they make us feel bad. The important thing in this phase is to avoid excuses and quick assessments (my partner talked aggressively with me, but I must have provoked him). We should see things as they are, even if they seem harsh to us and we feel that they are extremely painful.

In order for this exercise to bear fruit and allow us to open our eyes, we must practice it daily. The truth comes to us sooner or later and helps to remove that blindfold from our hearts and remove the bolts that have caught us and made us feel dissatisfied.

When the eyes have been opened, we will not be the same person and we have only one choice – a way out and a personal obligation: to look straight ahead, towards our freedom and happiness.

Looking back is no longer allowed.