SEEING REALITY
We may think that we see reality well, but the
fact is perception is highly selective and subjective -- usually we look only
at what interests us or strongly demands our attention; we see with a
preconditioned biased mind. Thus we don’t see reality as well as we may
think.
Here’s a simple experiment. You’ve looked at your
hands many times in your life and so let’s use them as objects for an
experiment.
Put your hands together any way you wish. Hold
them perfectly still for a minute and pretend you’re looking at a life-like
sculpture of them.
As you do this notice that the more detached you
are, the more you see things you didn’t expect. Your hands may even begin to
feel foreign or strange to you. It may feel like you’re seeing them for the
first time.
Through this simple experiment we may experience
how we don’t normally perceive commonplace reality as well as we may think
we do. And this normal lack of perception especially applies to the people
and situations we experience daily. Instead of seeing them as they truly are,
we may often see only a very limited idea of them. And because of this, we may
not deal with them as effectively as we could.
Practice meeting people and situations with a
clear unbiased mind. Don’t accept your automatic first thoughts of them. See if
you can discover how much more interesting and different reality is than you
normally expect.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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