The power of perceptions: Imagining the reality you want
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/health/enayati-power-perceptions-imagination/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12
My title isn’t meant as a rhetorical question, it _is_ possible to choose how you look at things. I am asking you directly: do you choose how you look at things consciously or do your ‘choices’ happen out of unconscious bias? Most people don’t even realise that they have a choice and think that their thoughts, reactions, biases, concerns, feelings, etc. are all determined by outside forces impinging on them rather than from within. I consider the ability to think about thinking to be very powerful and to provide insight not just to myself but to every other person. This is different from people who sit around and imagine themselves being wealthy, or the world’s best salesman, etc., this is about how you perceive the events that happen around you and the reactions (feelings, etc.) that manifest. Are you angry with someone? Why? Very few people will take that ‘why’ step, there be tygers! Asking ‘why’ you think something opens up a can of worms that has been sitting in the sun all day (if you don’t know what that phrase means, go get a can of worms and leave it in the sun all day, then open that sucker up! Be sure to hold on to the top of your head so you can try to staple it back on after the smell blows your brains out!). To even consider asking why you thought something is to admit the possibility that your thoughts might be ‘wrong’ and subject to alteration. To a lot of people changing their minds is a horrific idea, yet in many cases (likely the vast majority), they never even consciously made any the decisions they hold so tightly. Why is that?
I discuss my thoughts on human thoughts a bit here: Faith.
