Sight Steers Your Mind

Keywords

Binge-watching, doom scrolling, self-conscious, dodgy, projection, misread

Visualize Vividly

When sight steers your mind, you are highly visual and have a vivid imagination. Your memory is photographic. You can remember any face you see. You can visualize the details of a process or see the bigger picture of a situation. You may be an avid reader. You also love to people-watch and observe social dynamics.

Roving Eyes

During conversations, you are easily distracted by background movement or the food stuck in the teeth of the person you are talking with. You may judge the appearance of the person you are talking to. You are also concerned about how others judge your appearance and image. You either adhere to or rebel against social norms and fashion trends. You may even avoid the attention of others and act the part of the wallflower at social gatherings.

Overactive Imagination

When your vivid imagination runs away with your mind, it can be challenging to discern the truth. Seeing other people’s behavior through the lens of your subconscious beliefs can lead you to completely misread a situation.

Binge-watching Bloat

A tendency to binge-watch shows, doom scroll social media or impulsively shop online wreaks havoc with your imagination. You may find yourself feeling off without really knowing why. Residual images from media play behind your closed eyes. Overfeeding on screen time can even disrupt sleep or create unsettling nightmares.

Sight Screensaver

A simple practice to calm the imagination and clear your mind is to concentrate your sight on a single object. The flame of a candle is great for this. Taking a few minutes to alternate between gazing at the flame until you feel compelled to blink and closing your eyes acts like a screensaver for your visual field.

Why Understanding Your Senses Is Valuable

As part of the animal self, the senses are driven by pleasure and pain, appetite and distaste, craving and revulsion. They move toward what they desire and away from what they dislike.

One sense may dominate or a few may conspire to rule your mind.  This can lead to feelings that your life is out of your control and your senses drag you hither and fro.  May you numbly aimlessly wander through your day as the senses seek to satisfy their appetites.  Anxiety, depression, hopelessness, restlessness, insecurity, and sensitivity are symptoms of your senses steering your mind.

The results of this quiz can help you improve your relationship with your senses.  Like a horse-whisperer subtly communicates with a horse to steer them, you can learn to guide your senses through self-empathy.  As your senses relax and trust your conscious guidance, they operate as a powerful team that you rein in the direction of your choosing.