Your Internal World and External Reality

Your Internal World and External Reality

How you perceive the world is affected by how your brain chooses to perceive it. The ideas, beliefs, expectations and thought patterns we have all affect how we view the world around us. Everything that takes place around us is internally processed. We use mental schemas, which are our cabinet of experience, memories and information in our brains, to tell us what to expect and how to act. It’s an automatic process that our brains have been designed to do, learn and predict. Everyone experiences this world differently; we view things at a different angle. However, we all collectively have the same fight or flight responses, the same reactions and emotions. We all feel the same, yet think and perceive differently based on what angle you consciously choose. That affects our mood, and the forms of reactions we have. We all have the same emotions, yet it all depends on how outlook on a situation depends on what emotional triggers we ignite. In today’s clarity blog we will be exploring how internal world, affects our external world and how our perceptions on life may not necessarily be true.

To the trained mind, it can easily perceive something in a way which is highly altered and manipulated because our brains reacted before even looking at it. We can never perceive something wrong or rightly, since everything we do is objective so it already has biases. However, we can cause emotional harm to ourselves when we quickly react to a situation before thinking. For instance, you assumed that you heard some family member say something horrible about you, since as you opened the door to them you thought you heard the word ‘fool’. It drives you mad. And when you say ‘Hello’ to the you internally feel disrespected. In those situations, it good to sit back and remind yourself that it may not be true, evaluate how you feel. And Only If you believe 100% do you confront the person. (Use the judgeyourneighbor worksheet for this issue). But it's infect your brain that causes you to feel offended not your brain.

We all perceive ourselves in a good light, naturally. We like to flaunt our best aspects and expect that offers see the goodness in us. We may overestimate or underestimate our own abilities, and when it comes to our own image. Occasionally it may not be accurate. Offers interpret and view us differently for many different reasons when they first meet us or even those who you're closest to have that judgement. And that’s not a bad thing, but much like your own opinion it’s never accurate. Purely because there are multiple intentions behind our expectations, we either want a certain type of behavior from this person and ourselves. Which of course is never true, because we never meet our own expectations fully. Its life, we can ever be purely one shade of person, there are light and dark aspects and dimension to our personality. We can think one way, yet come across to offers enough and actually be acting very normal.

For example, we may be weeding the garden and we get into a conversation with a friend on how well were doing, and asking them about their weeding experience. We may expect them to say, ‘I am struggling a bit’ or expect a similar outcome, and that friend may interpret your prodding for compliments and asking them questions as you trying to manipulate them to do the weeding for you. Automatically you get a cold reaction and they walk off. You sitting there wondering what they hell is wrong with them. Simple miscommunication has taken place, good intentions and syndicalism must have jumbled up and cause an odd d encourager. And it’s no one’s fault.

What I want the reader to take from this, is a patient with your emotions. You may not be able to control your emotions and reactions to the external world. Yet with a logical and traditional mind, it’s good to analyse how your feeling. And ask yourself. Is it true?