Zoom In, Zoom Out A 5-Minute Perspective Change Exercise

his morning on a nature walk, something extraordinary happened.

First, zooming in on a single bee. Its extraordinary detail, its colours, its wings, its complete absorption in what it was doing. And then looking up at the sky. Vast, open, infinite.

The same world. Two completely different perspectives.

This 5 minute exercise uses that same principle. You will zoom in to whatever is present for you right now, feel it fully, and then zoom out, progressively, from the room you are in, until the earth itself is no longer visible.

And then you will come back. To yourself.

Transcript

Welcome. Close your eyes. And take one slow breath in and let it go. Take another deep breath in. And let that go. Bring your attention to whatever is most present for you right now. A feeling, A thought. Sensation Whatever is here Just notice it. Let it be exactly as B. As it is. Zoom in. This is your world right now. This is what it is. And now Begin to zoom out. With your awareness, Become aware of the room you're in. The walls around you, The ceiling. The flow. You are a person in a room. The room contains you and everything else what's in it. Now with your Awareness zoom out even further, Rise above the building. See it from above. The roof, The street. Other buildings. The room you are sitting in, Invisible, Is now. Within this building above. Keep going up and higher and above the town, The city. Countryside spreading out in every direction. Everything that felt so immediate and here now large, It's now just a tiny part. Of a much larger picture. Try to go, Try and go high still, Above the clouds. You can see the curvature of the earth. The edges. The blue of the atmosphere. The earth below now, Whole, Round. What a miracle, And further still. Out into space. The earth is just a little dot. Like a blue marble floating. Other planets are visible now. The sun. And now even further work. Our sun is just a tiny little dot because there are other, Countless other stars going up still. You can see out to another galaxy seeing our Milky Way itself. Just one of billions. And the earth. It's not even visible from here now. Part of the infinite. Stay here for a moment. In the infinite. Silence. Rich silence. In this unimaginable spaciousness of universe. Everything exists here. Together with every worry, Every weight, Courage, Every feeling. Everything exists within something so much larger than itself See that here from this perspective. Breathe here. You can return here anytime you want, By the way. And now, Very gently. . . Begin to come back, Back through the galaxy, Seeing the swirling Milky Way, Back to the Milky Way. To our solar system. That back to the blue air. The clouds, Over the landscape, Seeing the building, Back to the room. Back to you. Sitting, Lying in this body, In this moment, In this breath. Notice how you feel. Something in you that has expanded. And now your back Notice that spaciousness. Weave it in. When you're ready, Gently open your eyes. Welcome back.