What we believe is a result of what we perceive or see.
So…what do you see? More
importantly, why do you believe it?
For years I bought into the misconception that how I had
been treated, what I had experienced, and what had been said about me defined
me. I had accepted all that I had
experienced as defining who I was. That
couldn’t have been farther from the truth.
An outright lie that for some reason I had accepted as my reality. I now understand that I simply didn’t know
the truth. I couldn’t see it.
Until someone becomes aware and is willing to accept the
fact that they have been deceived they largely accept things as truth, more
often than not without giving it a second thought. Unwilling or oblivious to the possibility
that an alternative exists. So is what
you believe true? I can’t recall what is
was specifically that caused me to consider an alternative point of view or
paradigm about myself many years ago. I’m
not sure it matters now. Only that I
did. I now know that I have to take
every thought I have captive and interrogate it to determine if in fact if I
should believe it as truth or discount it and discard it as a lie. I am aware that I can be deceived. I want to know what’s true.
The mind is a fascinating thing. It seems that our mind’s default setting is to
believe. We see something and our default
is accepting it as truth. Why is
that? Maybe it is because we don’t want
to consider the possibility that someone would actually try to deceive us or
knowingly harm us. Maybe it’s that our
sincere hope is that everything we hear is actually true. So when we hear something about ourselves
that in fact is not, we don’t consider the possibility that it is a lie but default
to accept it at it’s face value and as defining who we are. We need to reset our default setting to be
skeptical.
I think about this a lot as I have a deep desire to
determine if there is anything that can be done to awaken or inspire this self-awareness
in someone. Inspire them to think about
considering another paradigm for themselves.
To seriously consider the possibility that what they believe about
themselves is not true.
Maybe it’s because I am so focused on the future that I
rarely see things as they currently are but instead see things as they could
be. I see possibility and
potential. I dream. I don’t see someone who is depressed or
lonely, instead seeing them as their potential self - joyful and
fulfilled. Pick an issue. No matter what, I see the person on the other
side of it having discovered freedom. Having
overcome whatever it is that is that is keeping them from believing the truth
about themselves. Believing instead in
that which is unseen.
So what is stopping you from believing in the unseen possibility?
Why don’t you see what I do? Why do you
think you are right? What if you’re
wrong? 
