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Are Your Perceptions Blocking You From Seeing the Full Truth?
How to drop old views and build new ones.
Perceptions are powerful things that shape how we see the world. The downside is they aren’t always reliable. They are either built on a sturdy foundation of truth, or the unsteady ground of stories & illusions.
The worst part of this for me was not knowing which of my perceptions were honest and which were conveniently warped to satisfy my desires and attachments.
When I started questioning this, it triggered a sense of urgency and curiosity in me that lead to identifying and challenging my perceptions to see if I created them from truth or bias.
I discovered some interesting things in the process.
Choose your lens
There are two ways to percieve things that create our perceptions:
Mindless
This is where anything you experience is filtered through personal judgments, belief systems, and morals.
The product is often a conveniently narrow perception meant to feed the belief that created it.
