Perceptions #29 ©
Be a Lightworker and Guide of new consciousness. Feelings are not to be confused with emotions. A feeling is sensory awareness, and not always definable or measurable. Not only do they vary from person to person, but within yourself they vary from extremes, as to where you are – mentally and physically – and of course, emotionally. The senses, or your sensory awareness, can be opened up or closed down rather quickly depending on your emotions. These feelings can be used both ways to either heal yourself or make you sick – truly your choice though heavily influenced by the situation you are in. Moving your mental control to the side, you allow your intuition or your feelings, to lead and guide you in the right direction and choices. Think about it. And then, wake up every day with anticipation of the positive, to create your own positive reality. It truly is what you make it out to be.
Your personal experience is what colors your feelings, and interpretations of all that comes into your life. Even siblings or a twin, would have had a different ‘personal’ experience or perspective of their life. It would be like watching the same life play performed by a different set of actors. While you know the basic premise, one group is definitely different from another, as in their interpretation. How often do you speak of your childhood or family scenario? Can you look at them from a more forgiving/loving perspective now that you’ve grown and changed so much? Understand that perception is not a fact or reality. It is a thought, belief, intuition or interpretation from your personal perspective. This is one reason why “eye witnesses” are so often wrong or contradictory of each other, even when viewing the situation from the exact same spot. Can anyone really look at a scenario, especially a crime, and not have judgmental – prejudicial filters adjust what they have seen? Subconscious or unconscious, these restricters have been there and proven time after time in psychology research experiments.
Exercise: Think of some basic key words and your interpretation of them related to people in your Past, Present and well known people of varying backgrounds: Peace, Strict, Love, Judgmental, Grace, Control, Power, Critical, Honest, Wisdom, Weak, Happiness, Strong, Joy, Reliable, etc. Now put those same words out to your friends for an interesting-honest discussion with open acceptance of each other’s views of them related to those famous people (remember acceptance is not agreement). Think what these words meant to you some time in your Past. Did you even ever think about their meaning before or when you were throwing them out as descriptions of people – even people you never personally met? Choose some other words that evoke strong feelings – examine them, talk about them. Now, take it a few steps further by adding emotional tag lines such as Fear, Pain, Anger, Insecurity, or others that would put the person doing the judging in a particular frame of mind or emotional state. Get to know your feelings and how they’ve changed – hopefully for the better. Most people, especially parents, do the best they can with the tools/understanding that they have/know. How much education did they have in the field of parenting, or even psychology?
How Flexible Are you? How Adaptable are you? Your perception is what your beliefs – feelings and emotions – make of any situation you may be in out of choice or default by some person or group. Everything about your life you create, whether by planning or spur of the moment. Any actions, any day is as you perceive it to become. You have had many daily actions that were similar, yet some you perceived positive and others negative. Since your perception comes form your thoughts, and creates your actions – be careful what you think! Heard that one before?!? Ask for what you want as you go to sleep and then listen for answers in your dreams, or as your morning unfolds.
Shortly after finishing Graduate school – Bilingual/Bicultural Studies with a concentration on Business Management – I had applied to jobs in China, South Korea and Japan. Many things considered, I accepted the position in Japan and they wanted me to come as soon as possible. There was much confusion in what needed to be done, and most unrecognized on my part was my husband at the time being totally pissed, because he had expected an overseas job offer before me. We had agreed that whomever got a job first, the other would go with as soon as able. I had also gotten an ESL (English as a Second Language) Certificate, so if his engineering job came, I would have no problem working wherever he was. My knowledge of Japan was limited to what I had learned from one of my professors who had taught there years before, but little else than general media exposure with Japan’s Bubble economy burgeoning them onto the world market as the biggest player.
Many delays in transportation, communication and information, my frustrations along with jet-lag and lack of sleep lead me to a burst of tears when we finally talked on the phone. My husband immediately insisted that I come home, as he had rarely heard me cry or break down in any way. We were almost broke, as grad school had been expensive and I had to cut back on my work to do well. I had also only bought a fixed, cheap round trip ticket, so I would have to wait at least until that time. I had perceived something almost smug in his demand for my return, which gave a strength in my backbone I had not felt in a long time – usually before dealing with my mother. I stayed seven years and was enormously successful – my husband could only hack a little over two years, and was shocked when I chose Japan over him. My constant use of intuitive perception, rather than judgmental feelings about a people that I had much to learn about, was the foundation of my success. It was the most pivotal experience in my life and the benchmark for my growth in who I was to become.
The more open you are, the more awareness you may have regarding things that you perceived in a different way, at another time – recently or long ago Past. With expanded information, your perception of something or someone may drastically change. Think of how many times someone’s misperception caused problems, or even danger for someone. It may be a moment of truth where your perception is proven totally wrong. Think about how you perceive the world, and how much truth you put into that on your unproven facts. So life is what you make it, as it all comes from your perception – right or wrong, positive or negative. The more open you are to information, the more options to have a more real understanding of it all. How attached are you to your perception – that is the question? Hopefully, it is wisdom that comes from those learned experiences and further knowledge.
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