Filters That Create Your Reality – Part 1
This morning, I was having a massive tidy up of paperwork that had accumulated.
You know the type, notes and more notes from seminars, book summaries, quotes, and so on. All just put in that special place to file later.
The amount of gems I came across was amazing.
I’m now going to share some notes I took so long ago that I don’t remember whether they were from a seminar, something I read, or something I listened to.
On second thoughts, these notes can’t be from a seminar as I would have a date and title at the top of the page. So, they must be the other options.
Does this ever happen to you?
However, when I read these notes as I was tidying up, I realised that they are so relevant for any time, for now or in the future.
My past would certainly have been an easier journey had I taken note of the points raised.
So, let’s start. Here are my first three points
- Always manage your mental and emotional state – powerful, eh?
- Prepare yourself to learn, get involved, sit alertly on your seat with an air of anticipation
- Your filters define what you reality is – that is big
Then came an important question: “How do we learn in the most effective ways?” That’s interesting, isn’t it? Have you ever taken the time to work out, how you learn best?
Suggestion made included,
- that you will tend to start with a sense of fascination
- which moves to intense curiosity
- followed by focus
- leading to a sense of understanding, and then
- you will know that you have learnt something
- and so, you will go through that cycle again and again
Isn’t that beautifully said?
1. When you go inside yourself, you realize that anything is possible
You can create new emotions, new beliefs, new behaviours which you can test out before you make them permanent, ie before you make them into a habit.
2. You have an inner voice
You just need to listen to it. It talks to us through our emotions, and we know this because, when we feel good about something, it’s something we should be doing more of, BUT when we don’t feel good about it, the message is loud and clear – stop doing whatever it is you are doing or thinking
Our filters are:
Sight
Hearing
Touching
Smelling
Tasting
However, Pantagali and Hindu literature talk about another sense, the mind.
The mind is a filter; it holds our beliefs, our habits.
Just imagine, if you have no filters, how would you experience reality?
If you experienced reality directly and not have it pass through our filters, how would you feel?
Overwhelmed, that’s for sure!
For example, one of the filters your mind creates is your perception of time.
Does everyone have the same perception of time?
No, you can be frantic, and in the same situation, another person is quite calm. Why? Different filters about time.
It’s not a question of who is right or wrong. It just is.
I leave my sharing of my notes at this point, and continue next week.
Till then, have a splendid week.
