Holding On or Being Held?
A 5-minute photo focus challenge to pause, reflect, and notice what life is showing you
Hi all,
Today’s 5-minute photo focus challenge takes you to the back of my house where I saw this: Leaves dangling in a row, held by the tiniest of threads.
Are they holding on or being held?
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It begs the question:
Are you holding on, or being held?
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Remember, the purpose of these occasional Friday photo focus challenges is to let your study of an image give you the opportunity to pause, reflect, and
notice what it stirs — or stirs up — in you.
And, to the degree that there is any discomfort involved, letting something stir you up for five minutes without doing anything to fix, change, or manage it, gives you the added benefit of clearing it.
You can use the steps and prompts below to deepen the experience.
Ahhh 🤩
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Take Five — Holding On or Being Held?
Set a timer for five minutes. Study the photo above. As you sit with it, what thoughts, sensations, or ah-has arise? As you sit with it even longer, perhaps uncomfortably so, what do you notice that you didn’t see before?
Use the prompts below to guide you. Share your impressions with us in the comments.
What is the first thing/sensation that you notice/feel when you look at this photo?
What does it feel like to hold on by a thread? What does it feel like to be held?
What does the picture convey, reveal, and/or remind you of in yourself?
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A couple have tied a loop or knot. Does this prevent falling? And what happens when they do fall? Are they now just lawn waste? Do they try to prevent that? Can I learn to let go when the time is right for me to do so? How will I be sure?
1. They don’t belong there..,
I need to fix this!
2. Holding on by a thread is scary!
But being held a caring person is comforting and feels good
3. My codependency…need to change something that doesn’t look good.
How can I fix it? And make it better?
Gaye