Brock { Abroad }

Ray Charles calls it “soulfulness,” the Buddhists “mindfulness,” and the Sufi Mystics call it the “eyes of the heart.” Whatever you call it, it’s the ability to respond from our most deepest place, it’s listening to your heart and following your passion. This is where I see a very intense connection between traveling around the world no matter where you are. A state of being that is always “on the road.”

I think it’s important to spend at least one hour alone with yourself every day. At least that’s what I’ve found is needed for myself. I feel it helps a person develop that different set of eyes. I look at it as a life-long process that can help a person better lead themselves. These are the eyes that come from your inner-self. These are the eyes of the heart. Much like those two very different sets of eyes, you find that while traveling  there is the process of change happening within you often sparked by the outer environment of changing cultures, landscapes, foods, everything. Travel, visualizing yourself out of familiar surroundings, out of your comfort zone, is a great way to begin to develop that second set of eyes.

-Lazaris