Our perception dictates how we see the world. What we magnify or what we minimize if we revel in our accomplishments or dwell in our defeats. To make the most out of life, we have to train our perception in a particular way.
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” ― C.S. Lewis.
So how do you make sure what you perceive is helping to create a better world for you to inhabit?
Through your filters and personal awareness of course.
That’s why many of the celebrity successes we read about don’t check their phones until they have meditated, journaled, read, or exercised. They put their filters in place because they know the onslaught of messages around them can harm their day. Our world is filtered through our perception of reality, so why not make the filters empowering. We have the power to see opportunities or obstacles, to experience the benefits or revel in the losses, to worry or rejoice,
to learn from setbacks or wallow in defeat.
Those choices are our filters.
We are the ones that can control what impacts us because we control our filters. When things are going wrong, we must be self-aware enough to alter our focus and reframe the problems we face. And it’s in doing that we free up our creative capacity to find solutions.
Choosing filters that contradict what society exposes us to is not easy but we have a choice. Don't get force fed someone else's reality. Choose how you want to see the world and commit to it.
Deepak Chopra said:
There is no fixed physical reality
No Single perception of the world
Just Numerous ways of interpreting world views
As dictated by ones nervous system and the specific
Environment of our planetary existence
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