Points of Perception

Reality:  the quality or state of being real; a real event, entity, or state of affairs; the totality of real things and events.

              Everything around us and about who we are influences how we perceive reality. Our perception often changes. I suppose because we are always changing, and growing. Sometimes we “see” something or someone or a situation a cretin way. As people we tend to think that our perception is the right perception. We often forget that everyone around us thinks the same thing, or we don’t even think about that they have their own separate, possibly completely different, perception. We use our differences in perception to keep us separate from each other. We often get mad or hurt by others when we don’t like how they perceive something or some situation. We take it very personal if they do not agree with us or we make them wrong if they see it differently than we do. Sometimes we get stuck in that anger or righteousness instead of really seeing things from the other person’s point of perception. Nor do we try to care or understand why they may feel the way they do.
             I feel that when we feel the maddest or most hurt by someone else’s perception of reality is when we really need to dig deep and see why it offends us so much. What about this perception is reminding us of something else we have been through or someone else’s difference of perception that has offended us. Perhaps it is because we haven’t let go of old ways of being or of thinking. We could use these moments of our life that are really difficult or that hurt us as a way to look at ourselves from a point of perception outside of ourselves. Perhaps we don’t like it because we don’t want to be perceived that way or we don’t like to think that we may have been doing or looking at a situation from a narrow-minded way, from a selfish point of perception. We could use these feeling of hurt or anger as a clue a hint that we are not operating from a conscious vibration. That we are holding ourselves back usually out of fear. We can use them as clues to help find a better way of being in the world. Use it as a tool to finding a better way of interacting with the world and people in it.
               Growing in this particular manner is very difficult for me and I think most humans. Most of you know that my main goal in life is to be a being of light, to spread all encompassing peace and unconditional love through the world. I am making a commitment to myself today that I am going to start being open to reality from every different point of perception, not just mine. I am going to be open to using other people’s point of perception as a tool to better myself and make my point of perception well rounded and less emotional.  
 

Namaste