If you look hard at the picture. There's a tiny plane in the distance. As the plane took off I look out my window, against the back drop of the sunrise another plane took off on a parallel path. We rose together into the sky, the same in many ways then diverged in opposite directions.
I mused on the idea of perspective as it’s shape became smaller compared to the large wing of my own ride. I took a picture on my cell. On the tiny screen you could barely tell the spot in the distance was a plane.
The idea of the observer is ever present in yoga philosophy. In yoga, the mind is not the self, the true self is the observer.
We can employ this idea on a physical level in our practice. As you practice or workout, try to eliminate judgment and ignore your idea of what a pose should be.
Instead pay attention to what the pose is. Notice what you feel and where you feel it. See what the movement can teach you.
Then step back even further and take into account your own lens. What is your background, what have you done in the past and how does that effect how you view the movement in this moment.
Now squint. Not literally. In your mind try to feel the action a little differently.
Have you been judging the movement based on a pre-conceived notion of success?
In order to see truth, we have to take into account our own perspective and then try to see past it. It sounds simple, but its quite difficult. We are prisoners of our own knowledge at times.
Be innocent in a movement and experience it freely. See what it teaches you.