One of the most important lessons of life is developing an efficient perception of reality.
As we all know, our thoughts create our reality. They don’t necessarily create truth but they do create our reality.
Whatever we think seems totally real to us. When a person is depressed, which of course is created by their own thinking, it seems totally real to them. Or when they are angry, which again is created by their own thinking, it also seems totally real.
Why?
Because our thoughts create our reality. My thoughts create my reality – your thoughts create your reality. In a sense, we all live in our own world of thoughts.
And so, some people live in a self-created hell whereas others live in a self-created heaven.
The importance of learning to think properly and to see life with an efficient perception of reality cannot be overemphasized.
So why should you strive to develop an efficient perception of reality?
Because every faulty thought you have about yourself, your Creator and other people, – means: really every single fear-based thought you have – will cause you to see all of life from an imbalanced perspective. Every imbalanced, negative ego, fear-based thought or belief you have will cause you to have a blind spot in your thinking which you will then project onto the world. So your whole view of life will be off-kilter.
When people see life through the negative ego’s eyes, the eyes of fear, then everything they experience seems totally real and all their thoughts, emotions and actions seem justified, even though they are living in complete illusion.
A dictator feels justified in their actions even though they live in complete illusion. This is because our thoughts create our reality, and if you are acutely run by your fear-based mind, you will feel a need to attack in order to protect yourself – even though there is no attack except in your own mind. So, dictators like to present themselves as people with power, but in truth, they are the most fearful people in the world. And that’s why they feel the need to attack.
This is because everything we think causes us to feel the way we do, and it seems and feels totally true. It is true from the negative ego’s perspective, but it is completely illusionary when seen from the Spiritual/ Christ/ Buddha perspective. A person who feels righteously angry really feels justified in their response. However, in truth, they are just indulging their negative ego.
If you believe in Humanistic Psychology then it is alright to express your emotions whenever and wherever you want, even if you attack and hurt people. If one has that philosophy then that person feels quite self-righteous in doing what they are doing.
If you are a follower of Carl Jung you must own your shadow – even though you don’t have one.
If you are a Behaviorist then we have no free choice, and we are all rats in a maze receiving positive and/or negative reinforcement.
People get stuck in philosophies and psychologies of all kinds and think they have the truth.
