Lesson 2

Today's Lesson: I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.

Wow! This lesson feels immensely powerful, almost eerie with intensity. To truly think about this means that I, and only I, give every aspect of my own little unique life experience meaning. The analogy that's coming to mind right now is dipping into a bath, where meaning is like water, just there, floating around en masse. It might be hot, cold, cloudy or bubbly. And in this bath of "meaning" I can choose whether to dip just my foot, swirl it with my hands, or completely dive in and submerge myself entirely.

I feel almost tickled by this play, this push and pull of power. The power to control how much meaning I infuse any and every individual thing in my surroundings with, even including myself and other living things. I am also empowered to give zero meaning to a thing. With my mind and imagination I can control the meaning a thing has to me. For example, I see a small container of paperclips before me and I play with the magnetism of meaning. This paper clip container could mean a great deal to me, it could be something my grandmother gave to me representing her and our link in life before she died. I might have taken the container off to college with me, and kept it as I moved from place to place. I might simply love the swirly design on the cover of the container. Alternatively, I could toss this container in the trash and never apply another shred of my living energy to it again!

Its also true that every object or even living thing, if it has meaning to me, it only has the meaning I give it. Even if the meaning it has to me happens to overlap with the meaning it has to my husband, this sense of "meaning" is still embodied to each of us as our own.

Today's lesson helps me see that I am ridiculously powerful, that we are all extraordinarily powerful!