Filters That Create Our Reality – Part 2
In Part 1, we started the topic Filters that Create Your reality. This is now Part 2.
We have seven major filters that create our reality. Each person’s reality is as unique as her or his thumbprint.
These seven major filters are:
1. Values
2. Beliefs
3. Attitudes
4. Memories
5. Decisions
6. Language, and
7. Meta Programs
Not a single person has the same reality as another. Sounds odd, doesn’t it?
We can view the same incident as someone else, but we will give a different account of not only the less dominant aspects of the incident, but even dominant aspects and sequence of events.
Why is that?
Each second, we have multi-million bits of information coming into our conscious awareness.
Yes, that’s right – multi-million. Some say 20 million, others say 100 million. The exact amount isn’t important.
What is significant is the incredible number that we attract via our five senses.
It’s really exciting stuff, isn’t it?
It also indicates what amazing creations we humans are. Personally, I believe that we are all walking miracles.
When you consider our anatomy, brain, memory, the complete package that makes up who we are…..
Are we not a miracle? Would that not suggest that we should respect each other for the amazing creatures we are?
We take our humanness for granted, emphasising only our differences instead of our similarities.
Okay, back on track, I can get carried away with this topic of our brilliance.
As I said, these bits of information approach us through our five senses.
So we can either see them, hear them, touch or feeI them, smell them or taste them.
These are our physical filters; they come to us from the outside world.
All these bits of information are raw data from our external world which we need to prioritise before we allow them into our inner world, that is, into our minds.
By the way, all this raw data has no intrinsic meaning, it only takes on the meaning that we choose to give it through our mind.
At the same time, we decide whether what we allow in is going to go into short-term or long-term memory.
That is, what are we going to remember more on a conscious level and what are we going to allow to enter our subconscious level and, therefore, have a more permanent effect on our thoughts and subsequent behaviours.
Therefore, if we are to be in control of our preferred outcomes, preferred results, we need to understand our mind’s Filtration System
In other words, how we receive external information, why we internalise some and not other bits, to create experiences.
These experiences, which we allow to become more permanent in our subconscious, will form a type of template or reference point from which we will adjust our thought and behaviours with future similar experiences.
What we allow in and how we interpret that external raw data will determine the life we live.
Every habit we have, every thought process we have has given birth from how we’ve viewed our external world.
This is so important to remember. The reality we are so sure about is not reality itself.
More next time.
In the meantime, be aware of how you see what is going on around you and how it differs from others you interact with.
Have fun with it.
Awareness = Empowerment
