Today is National Meteor Watch Day — one of those quietly wonderful holidays nobody remembers until it’s already dark out. But it got me thinking about something I see in my office almost every week.
Most of us go through life staring at the sidewalk.
Not literally, of course. But metaphorically? Absolutely. We’re heads-down, focused on the next task, the next obligation, the next thing on the list. We forget to look up. We forget there’s an entire sky above us, doing extraordinary things, whether we’re paying attention or not.
Meteors are happening constantly. Tiny pieces of ancient rock and ice, burning brilliantly as they enter our atmosphere — but you only see them if you happen to be looking in the right direction, at the right moment, with your eyes actually open to the sky instead of fixed on the ground in front of you.
Change works the same way.
I meet people all the time who feel stuck — stuck in a habit, a fear, a pattern they’ve carried so long it feels like the floor under their feet rather than something they’re choosing. And almost always, the breakthrough isn’t about working harder at staring at the same patch of sidewalk. It’s about looking up. Shifting perspective just enough to notice what was always streaking by, unnoticed, full of light.
Hypnosis and NLP work is a lot like meteor watching, actually. You can’t force a meteor to appear on command. But you can put yourself in the right position — quiet, receptive, present — and when the shift comes, it’s fast, and it’s bright, and it changes how you see the whole sky afterward.
So here’s my Meteor Watch Day question for you: What have you been staring at the ground avoiding? What’s streaking across your own sky right now that you haven’t looked up long enough to notice?
You don’t have to wait for a meteor shower to make a wish.
Sometimes all it takes is deciding to finally look up.
Ready to shift your perspective? Let’s talk about what’s possible when you finally look up. — Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP
Topics:
- Hypnosis
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- NLP
- Personal Transformation
- Positive Change
- New Perspective
- Mindset Shift
- Lasting Change
- Emotional Freedom
- Personal Growth