The Primary Filter that Colors our Perceptions and Relationships

Some believe that they have the ability to see reality for what it is.  Some believe that they see others for who they are.  Some believe that they know and that they are right in their perceptions and ideas about how the world is, about others and even about ourselves.  They believe that they are open minded and willing to learn from the world and others, that they can experience the world objectively.

However, we sometimes lose sight of the important filters that we use to experience life.  These filters affect the information that we believe we gain from the world.  We see the world through several filters.  Some of the filters that we constantly use are our sensory organs that we have, that we use every day.  There are our eyes (visual), ears (sound) and skin (kinesthetic) that are biological filters through which we experience the world and others.

The primary filter that we have, little known or ever recognized, is the belief that we have about ourselves.  This belief to which I refer is that which in many ways defines us.  It is a belief about who we think we are.  It is our self limiting belief.  This fundamental core belief colors or influences everything in our life, our perceptions and beliefs about the world we live in and those who we know and interact with.  It is the source from which we project onto the world.  To transform our life requires that we become aware of our self limiting belief, otherwise there will be no true transformation, merely change.

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The Power of Witnessing a Passing

Last thursday I had the honor of witnessing the passing of someone very dear to me.  Last thursday my mother passed and I able to witness it.  I was there to watch her pass, to watch her take her last breath.  An extraordinary woman who gave birth to me, who watched me take my first breath, I was given the honor of watching her take her last.  For someone that I never imagined would pass, she did.

One of the things that I again became present to is the notion of impermanence. As Dan Milman once wrote in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, everything changes, nothing stays the same.  We sometimes believe and act as if we will live forever. We do not really get that change is the only constant, that we too will change physically and eventually pass.  We enhance the power of our being by getting that life is fragile and that we need to live it from the notion that our life will eventually go out of existence, that we too will pass.

When we live life from the perspective of impermanence we act and behave differently.  For me it is about being of service, of creating for the benefit of others, to do for others in order to enhance their life.  I know that I too will eventually pass.  Until then my life will be about service to others.

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Our tendency is to stay the same.

While we realize that change is both important and necessary, we will have a tendency to stay the same, to not change.  We are creatures of habit in just about everything that we do in life.  For us to change we will have to do a variety of things, most of them counter to how we have been doing business in life, sometimes for years.  First we have to outline what it is we need to do. For this we will need help from others, through counsel or sponsorship.  Second we need to create a schedule that will give us the opportunity to implement what we have come to believe is necessary for our transformation.  Third, we have to stay committed to the program that we have created and realize that it will take time, that it will not happen immediately or over night.  We have to be patient and persistent.  Realizing that our tendency though is to stay the same give us power to transform our life.

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