More on the Teacher Appearing

I really want to continue today on the topic of the teacher appearing in my life.

As I stated yesterday, I think everything is my teacher and that my readiness to accept (recognize) the lesson determines my experience.

Yesterday, I spoke of beauty. Today I am thinking about people. I have always known that every person who crosses my path has something to teach me.

Today, I am pondering the many ways someone can teach me.

Like my recognition of beauty, my sensory perceptions, stimulated by seeing or meeting someone, teach me about myself.

In the briefest of encounters, my mind may process dozens of pieces of information about another. I may see the person as physically attractive, or not. I may pick up a smell that means one thing or another to my senses. As a body-worker, I may notice the way a person walks. I can infer where their energy is blocked, and I may even have some insight into their personality, based on the way they carry their body, or the pace with which they walk.

This list can go on and on. The point is that in just a very brief crossing, my mind can deduce a great deal of information about another person. Whether my deductions are on-target or not, is not relevant for this conversation. What is important here is what each of these pieces of information say to me, about me.

What I find to be physically attractive; what I find to be sexually stimulating; what I decide I know about another person, each of these evaluations are teachers, when I am the student. In the student mode, I am the observer of how my mind uses, evaluates, and judges the sensory input. When I am the autonomic robot, who inhabits my body too much of the time, I just let the input flow in, unchecked, and I keep moving.

I know, beyond any doubt, that everyone I meet has something to teach me. Some will teach me through words. Some will teach me through their actions. Some will teach me simply through my observations of my own reactions and processes.

The man who sped up last night to keep me from merging in front of him taught me that I still have an anger reflex which is not healed. My observation of myself showed me that I am about 1000 times faster now than I used to be, at returning to a peaceful state after choosing such a response. I am thankful for both lessons. (I take back my spell that all of his tires fall off, on the way to his favorite pastime.)

I thank each and every one of you who have crossed my path. Feel free to teach me anything you choose, but know that I will not get the lesson, unless I, as the student, am ready.

Elliott

P.S. (I was just kidding about the spell!)