Perception

I had the opportunity this weekend to go to a Kryon Seminar and listen to a talk by Lee Carrol. The topic of his talk was "perception" and I'd like to share some of the highlights.

We believe that we see through the lense of the eye. That the image is projected into the back of the eye and we "see" that image. But in fact, the image is actually interpreted by the brain and this "interpretation" is what we really see. The "interpretation" of the image depends on our perception of the world. In other words, it is our "perception" of the image that we experience, not the image itself. And where does our perception come from? It depends on how we were brought up, what beliefs we have bought in to, what we have accepted as "reality."

Lee told us the following story: In order to experiment with perception, two sets of kittens were brought up in different environments. In the first group, the room was painted in horizontal stripes and everything in their reality was horizontal only. The second group were brought up with vertical stripes and all objects that were vertical.

When the kittens grew to cats, they were released into a normal environment, but those from the horizontal world could not perceive anything vertical, so they kept bumping into chair and table legs and anything that was horizontal. In other words, they could not see anything horizontal because it was not part of their reality, their world view.

Okay, my take on this. If my reality is what I believe and perceive it to be, then by changing my perceptions of reality, my reality will change.

So a limited thought is, in fact, a distorted perception, like looking through a lense at reality. My plan of action: Whenever I have a limited thought, I will imagine that I'm in a glass bubble that is distorting my perception. With my mind, I will shatter that glass so that I can see clearly again. And I will continue to shatter that distorted view, again and again, remembering that it is only a belief and a belief is nothing more than a thought that I keep thinking.

Years ago, I learned to visualize what I want to manifest. That works and it is all well and good. On the other hand, if I have a limited perception of what is possible in my life, then I will either create within those limited boundaries, or I will not create what I want since I do not believe it possible.

Armed with my new knowledge of perception and knowing that it is the "feeling and experience" that I want to create, not the object itself, I will focus on the "feeling" I want to achieve and the "experience" I want to have and leave the door open for Spirit to bring to me what will match those feelings and experiences. In other words, I will:

- shatter the glass of limited perceptions
- leave the door open for Spirit to bring into my life experiences and things and people that I could never have imagined.

I also had the opportunity to hear Kryon. The gist of his message: "Tend to your own spirituality and be the light and know that you are changing the world."

And the journey continues.