Love or Fear: The Straw-Hole Experiment

Over a decade ago, my friend Sarah gave me this image of us having a straw-holed vision of what is going on. A few years later, I took that image a step further and used it to create a visual example in a group project about the power of where we put our focus. I’ve used this example in my 90-Day A Better Me Series and now I want to bring it to you.

WHAT YOU NEED TO CONDUCT EXPERIMENT

Whether you use a metal straw or plastic straw, your hand to make a straw-sized hole, or the zoom feature on your phone, use what you have in front of you. The power of this experiment comes from doing it.

DIRECTIONS

I want you to take out whatever you’re using and look at the two images below. Start off as close as you can on the image of your choice then slowly pull back.

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

Which image did you find yourself focusing on from the closer positioning?
What word was the center of your focus?
How much could you see around where you put your focus?
How much did you have to zoom in to see each and every word in the image?
Could you see the other image at all when your focus was on reading the words?
Could you focus on both images at the same time?

PULLING BACK TO GAIN PERSPECTIVE

How much more could you see?
Where was your focus?
Which words are you continuing to focus on?
Could you focus on both images at the same time?
Which image pulls your focus in?
How much could you see around where you put your focus?

IN CONCLUSION

No matter what we are looking at in our lives, we only have a very small view of the big picture. If we are focused on love/ hope it’s harder to focus on fear/ lack and vice versa.

The best we can do for ourselves and the world around us is try to pull our straw back from whatever we are focusing on to see a slightly bigger picture, then move the straw around to gain perspective on what we haven’t looked at and/or don’t understand.

Once we gain the perspective, we can put so much more wisdom into where we choose to put our attention.

We will never have a full picture view on anything in life. We can simply create perspectives of truth from whatever we are focusing our attention on. Those perspectives will be based in love or fear, never both at the same time. Whichever we choose will create the straw-holed view of our focus, which we will be how we view our reality.

With Love and Gratitude,

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