An Invitation Into the World of . . . Your Creative Perception

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It's a new year once more and perhaps you are returning from a holiday to whatever normal life looks like for you. Our world appears REAL . . . but is it truly?

Our perception is the basic process of taking in information through our senses and interpreting what it means. It is how we navigate our environment by noticing sights, sounds, textures, and other sensory details. Most of the time, it happens automatically, shaping how we understand and respond to the world around us.

SO . . .

Perception = interpretation = our version of life (an understanding created through the mind) and that mind fluctuates, changes, even sees the same situation differently each time.

What we see is never merely what is before us, but what stirs within us—memory, imagination, longing, shadow, fears, defense mechanisms, competitiveness, our wanting more — each strand braiding themselves into form and that becomes our belief system. Every moment becomes an oracle believing in what we just made up and then with perception OUR OWN INTERPRETATION now shines with the hidden meaning we attach to it.

Let me share a few life examples.

Two adults Friend A friend B) say they will meet for a coffee on a certain day, each looking forward to it. At 11pm the night before friend A cancels by text saying its an emergency and she is sorry but will be in touch. Friend B worries about the emergency and waits. No further info arrives. On the fourth day she calls her friend in a worried mind state and is dismissed. She has been let down by a friend in the same manner previously and so she remembers this hurt and withdraws from the friendship because she is over thinking about it for a few weeks and in her mind, the hurt grows.

The next scene is two siblings disagreeing over the care of an ageing parent. They each have a view of how that parent should be cared for ( based on self interpretation). The first sibling thinks their parent should come to live with them. And that is what happens and they sometimes become overwhelmed . The second sibling has the same parent occasionally during that time and sees everything that is not done properly. They too feel despondent and overwhelmed. They go back home leaving a shopping list for the first sibling to complete seemingly to make things better (for whom?)

Two different examples of individual interpretations evolving from their own individual beliefs. Each situation bringing emotional turmoil.

What would this look like if all parties knew that their realities were were innocently misaligned with each other, through years of fear based learning?

If I am the very source of the meaning I see and it makes me uncomfortable then nothing in either scenario is inherently good or bad! Which means I am not victim to another's behaviours or way of being. Only to my interpretation. My emotional responses are built from my own fears and those fears took years to develop in my growing up, at school, at work and in my relationship to life.

THE STILLNESS PATH brings our attention back to the heart where our own voice of wisdom within can help us to see clearly and especially to see that our pain and suffering comes from our interpretation masquerading as our reality.

We get to choose to stay in our space of self interpretation, based on imagination, judgement, fear, blame, projection and insecurities built up so far, or to unravel the things filtered through these beliefs and therefore to unlearn that way of seeing.

All this takes is a willingness to be open minded instead of that adult who thinks we have it all worked out!

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