Your Perception and Your Reality

Note: Excerpt for the book “Finding Your Center”

Our perception of reality is very much an interactive or interpretive process. Many studies have been run in this area in recent years.  It is well-known now that people’s perception is painted to a large degree by their personality’s dispositions and states of mind.

Self-mastery (A system I developed in the late nineties) defines this property as follows:

How we do things determines the quality of our development.

The how is the state of mind that we have while are performing a task. It is the Quality of our Thinking. In other words, our state of mind at the time we perceive something has a great bearing on what we experience.

Underneath cognitive memories and even emotional influences, there is a whole other more fundamental level of thinking. I describe this as your state of mind or the Quality of Thinking.  This may be difficult to understand at first.  It is the clarity or the timber of your thinking. You can look at it as a new fundamental mental pattern of a combination of all of the associated mental, emotional and physiological patterns.

It is so much a part of us that we need to gain a new perspective in order to clearly see it.  The following example will help to explain it.

Sometimes, thinking is clear and sometimes it is cloudy.  Most of us feel that this is just the way things are and we have little control over it.

It is true that our state of mind, our clarity of thinking, our emotional disposition is not easily changed through an act of will.  However, using the correct physiological tools, we will be able to quickly enhance or alter our state of mind.

Continued practice will develop heightened sensitivity and awareness of our lower-level states of mind.  In time this elusive and unfamiliar landscape will begin to be transformed into tangible and controllable elements.  The more you become in tune with your Centerä, the less elusive other patterns of thinking become.  As you become more mindful. The notion of the subconscious as being something that you are unaware of begins to change.