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When you look through a kaleidoscope, you see colored objects with varying colors and patterns. A rotation of the tube tumbles the colored objects creating a new design and wonderfully mesmerizing shifting, animated patterns swirling through detailed 3D shapes arranged in symmetrical patterns. What you see is easy on the eyes and soothing to the mind until you see it from a different angle, and you realize that maybe you do not like the pattern after all.
If our lives are like kaleidoscopes, many of us spend a great deal of time and energy attempting to create the perfect picture of color and shapes as we like them. Then we want to set the resultant work of art in a place of honor, never to be moved again. This is it. Now we finally got it right. Then, suddenly, crash! bang! Life has a habit of bumping into our carefully constructed masterpiece, jarring it into a totally different image.
For years, Laura had struggled with her belief that it was her job to “fix” any crisis or difficult circumstance that came up in her family and at work. With a great deal of psychological savvy, Laura courageously became aware of her need to control situations in a futile attempt to keep her kaleidoscope in the pattern she thought best.
Little by little, Laura began to release her need for control, accept what she would not change, and increase her peace of mind. She was proud of her new kaleidoscope pattern and was enjoying it immensely when breast cancer jarred her life. After first raging and resisting the cancer, Laura came to believe that the stress induced by her old need to control and correct all situations had so depressed her immune system that cancer was the result. But Laura is a fast learner, and she has now not only licked cancer but has truly given up another big C word: Control. Laura now consistently accepts and trusts the varying kaleidoscope patterns in her life and, most important, realizes that she is not responsible for everyone else’s patterns. Awareness was her first, and most important, step toward her healing.
Are there areas in your life where you need to let go of control and allow your kaleidoscope fragments the freedom to dance to their own tune? Do you realize that there is always a redeeming quality for an awful thing or a bad behavior? Do you know that you can never be in control of everyone and anything?
Accept and enjoy life in its beauty and imperfection. Be happy, healthy and hopeful. View life as a kaleidoscope of overlapping motives, interests and perceptions that shifts every time you adjust your point of view. Your reference scale is going to constantly change. No matter how big your panoramic view of what is happening, you never are equipped to make a judgment call because there is always that piece you do not know that could change your entire opinion. So your viewpoint into the character constantly shifts, and it's a factor of your consciousness and your awareness.
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