Here’s a concept for you to consider.

Our experience of the world isn’t what’s out there; it’s what we perceive to be out there.  That means our reality can be quite arbitrary because we sense the outside world through filters.  These filters exist beneath our conscious mind.  Most people aren’t even aware they’re there.  Yet they determine just what we perceive and therefore deterimine our reality.

We need these filters – we couldn’t possibly keep track of all the information coming in otherwise.

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How Real Is Your Reality?

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A few days ago, I described the four stages of learning.  In that post, I used a child learning to tie their shoelaces as an example of the process.

Since I wrote that, it’s occurred to me that there’s another point to be made using that example. It’s at least as important as the knowledge of the four stages.  Realizing this will both speed your progress and increase your joy as you achieve unconscious competence.

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Be Easy With Yourself About Learning

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We all need help sometimes to understand or communicate complex ideas.  There are lots of tools we can use to do that, and metaphors are among the most powerful.  A metaphor indirectly compares one thing to another, implying that they share similar characteristics.  To the extent the comparison is valid, it can help us understand the newly introduced concept.

Metaphors also affect our way of looking at a situation – once we define a comparison, we tend to think in those terms.  This can either serve us or hurt us.

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Metaphors For Personal Power

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Our thoughts are extremely powerful.  Our experience of the moment is not determined by what is happening but rather by the thoughts we are thinking.
 
For example, the other day I was at an intersection and the driver of a car at the cross street thought I was going to pull out in front of him.  He blew his horn and scowled at me as he drove by.  It was a minor case of road rage.  He wasn’t having a very good experience at that moment, and it had nothing to do with me.

I wasn’t going to pull out in front of him and I wished him no ill.  His anger arose purely from his thoughts and perceptions.  At some other time, I might have responded in kind, letting my own thoughts ruin my experience, but on that day I was in a great mood and easily let it go.  If anything, I felt sorry for him that he let a trivial event add anger to a beautiful day.

It’s not the events that determine our experience but our thoughts about them.

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THE POWER IS IN OUR THOUGHTS

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