ARE YOUR PERCEPTIONS YOUR REALITIES?
Your mind perceives all
your life experiences through your five senses: seeing, hearing, touching,
smelling, and tasting.
To most people, seeing
is the most important perception; however, what they see may not be the absolute
reality, because their visual perceptions may be conditioned by what they see,
and distorted by many other factors during the processing of their perceptions.
Remember, it is the intuition of your
soul that really perceives your reality. The wise have known for a long time
that what we know through our eyes are not the same as the intuition of the
soul. If that is the case, sadly, most people rely on what they see, thinking
that "seeing is believing," and thus lose themselves in external
things.
As an illustration, in
1997, Richard Alexander from Indiana
The truth is that your
brain is composed of grey matters and neurons or nerve cells that transmit
information and messages; they are the building blocks of your brain for the
processing of all your perceptions. Neurons are responsible for all your
behaviors in the form of perceptions, which trigger a mental process that
results in an action or an emotion. If the process becomes instinctive or
habitual, then the output in the form of an action or emotion is also automatic
and predictable. That is how attitudes
and habits are formed, including the
fight-or-flight response to any dangerous situation. This automatic or
spontaneous mental processing is often not “by choice.”
The fact of the matter
is that this “learned” mental processing is responsible for the way you think
and act, for your beliefs and emotions, for you attitudes and prejudices, as
well as for your decisions or indecisions—in other words, every aspect of your
life experiences.
Descartes, the great French philosopher, made his famous
statement: "I think, therefore I am." That means, you think, and your
thoughts then become who and what you think
you are. But that may not be the real you
In many
ways, the human brain is like a computer program. Your whole being is like the
computer hardware with the apparatus of a mind, a body, and the five senses.
The lenses, through which you see yourself, others, and the world around you as
well, are the software that has been continuously programmed by your thoughts,
your past and present experiences, as well as your own expectations and those
of others projected into the future. In other words, you and nobody else have
programmed your own present mindset. All these years, you might have been
trapped in a constricted sense of self that has prevented you from knowing and
being who you really are. Your “conditioned” mindset might have erroneously
made you "think" and "believe" that you are who and what
you are; but nothing could be further from the truth.
Stephen Lau
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