Some fantastic words from Philippa Perry in How To Stay Sane.
Coutesy: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/05/how-to-stay-sane-philippa-perry/
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck.
I am cuurently reading The Map by Collette Baron Reid. She probably read the above lines and has presented similar thoughts.
Your place is created by your perception. You see what you expect to see even though you're not fully aware that you are expecting that. The mind is wired very efficiently to look for evidence that you can apply what you've learned or experienced in the past to what you're seeing before your eyes in this moment. It's used to spotting the signs of danger and the potential for suffering. That's why it's difficult to break the patterns of thoughts and behaviour that may have served a protective purpose at some point in your life but which aren't working very well for you now. Your mind, like everyone else's is always filtering out the facts that contradict what you believe.
We have to evolve out of this limited way of looking at our lives. We need to become mindful of our filters and we need to change them. This way, we empower ourselves to make different choices and create new patterns and hence a new story.
Aren't these two very similar thoughts? Did they arise in two different minds independently or one was influenced by the other?
Nevertheless, the lesson is good. We use old filters. We need to keep changing our filters often, in fact every single day would be great. We will then 're-invent' ourselves and people can claim to see a new 'you'. That's what it's all about!
Coutesy: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/05/how-to-stay-sane-philippa-perry/
We all like to think we keep an open mind and can change our opinions in the light of new evidence, but most of us seem to be geared to making up our minds very quickly. Then we process further evidence not with an open mind but with a filter, only acknowledging the evidence that backs up our original impression. It is too easy for us to fall into the rap of believing that being right is more important than being open to what might be.
If we practice detachment from our thoughts we learn to observe them as though we are taking a bird’s eye view of our own thinking. When we do this, we might find that our thinking belongs to an older, and different, story to the one we are now living.
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck.
I am cuurently reading The Map by Collette Baron Reid. She probably read the above lines and has presented similar thoughts.
Your place is created by your perception. You see what you expect to see even though you're not fully aware that you are expecting that. The mind is wired very efficiently to look for evidence that you can apply what you've learned or experienced in the past to what you're seeing before your eyes in this moment. It's used to spotting the signs of danger and the potential for suffering. That's why it's difficult to break the patterns of thoughts and behaviour that may have served a protective purpose at some point in your life but which aren't working very well for you now. Your mind, like everyone else's is always filtering out the facts that contradict what you believe.
We have to evolve out of this limited way of looking at our lives. We need to become mindful of our filters and we need to change them. This way, we empower ourselves to make different choices and create new patterns and hence a new story.
Aren't these two very similar thoughts? Did they arise in two different minds independently or one was influenced by the other?
Nevertheless, the lesson is good. We use old filters. We need to keep changing our filters often, in fact every single day would be great. We will then 're-invent' ourselves and people can claim to see a new 'you'. That's what it's all about!
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