What if the “reality” you see isn’t as “true” as you think it
is?
Perhaps it’s the reality of your health, or what doctors have
told you about your health, or what you’ve seen in the news
and in those around you…
Or perhaps it’s your finances, the economy, and again what you’re
“seeing” around you.
And then you bump into someone who has great health or great
finances or a great outlook on something that doesn’t look so
good to you, and you wonder, “what planet are they on?”
Well, today I have a suggestion, and a fun puzzle that will
anchor what I’m talking about.
The suggestion is that when you next meet someone or learn about
someone who has a “good” experience with something that you’d like
to have, too, but currently aren’t (e.g., a good experience of a
particular person, or of their own health, or of their finances
or business or of the economy…) how about releasing some of your
own tight hold on the “reality” you see, and being willing to
suspend your disbelief for a few moments—–long enough to consider
seeing things a different way, and even to adopt the belief, or
way of seeing things, that the person has who has the results or
experience you want…at least long enough to start to “see” and
experience things differently, too?
A little too abstract?
Think about this for a moment in terms of one or more areas of
your life that you’d like to be different.
How attached are you to your current way of seeing things?
Now click below to see an amazing “puzzle” that illustrates how
much our brain is conditioned to “see” in certain ways, based on
what we’re comparing to…or paying attention to…
(Personal confession: in the puzzle you’re about to see, I
actually had to print out the chessboard and cut out the actual
squares and hold them together before I could “see” the “truth”!)
Here’s the puzzle (click here).
Let me know your own experience of “seeing” differently and what
helped you shift your perspective on something that was important
to you in the comments below.
To a prosperous and joyful 2009 for you,
Dr. Ben
