I was trying out a new show called “Trust Me”. Their are two main characters that work for an advertising agency. One day they are under the gun to come up with an advertising campaign and are arguing when one of them says to the other: “Perception is reality”, meaning that what their client thinks cannot be dismissed.
Great line, great truth.
If a fabric is plush, we assume it is soft. If we say “Sorry, I’m so stupid sometimes!” we find ourselves doing “stupid” things more often.
Perception as defined by the dictionary: “the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.”
The way we choose to re-cognize or understand something is the way we will then experience life. In other words, how we understand something then defines what we experience as our reality.
If you get hit on the head by a falling acorn, then you may perceive that they sky is falling. If you advertise this perception, this belief, then you (and anyone else who believes you) may begin to experience the sky falling.
This is one reason why some people seem to have things work out for them in life, or seem to have things fall into their lap. They perceive a clear sky and an acorn that hit their head- no big deal. This causes them less worry.
Next, and more importantly, they also perceive that they are intelligent and capable people so that even if they sky did start to fall, they know they would be able to handle it.
So, when trouble comes their way (and problems come to everyone in life) they perceive the problems to be small and manageable. They perceive that they will be able to solve the problem and that it will be no big deal.
We truly advertise who we are, what we are capable of and what will happen to us based on the beliefs and preconceptions we subscribe to. Because we subscribe to them, we are constantly advertising this to ourselves.
People who come from intelligent families advertise that they will have intelligent children who will attend prestigious universities; people who have never had much and who struggle tend to have children whose beliefs advertise that life is hard and that you get little in return. Generally speaking, this is then what their children experience.
I love the word advertise in this case! It is a great word that describes what we do. Just like a commercial on television that advertises a product, we advertise our beliefs to ourselves by reinforcing them all of the time. When we keep hearing the same beliefs within us sooner or later we believe this and then, because we perceive it, it becomes our reality!
If, on the other hand, we turned off our televisions – or stopped believing our own beliefs- then we could change the commercials. We could, instead, start to advertise what we want to advertise to ourselves. We could start to tell ourselves that we are very capable, that our dreams are coming true for us and that we are loving, wonderful people. We deserve having our dreams come true for no good reason.
We would advertise wonderful things about us to ourselves and we would start believing and experiencing a wonderful life. Our wonderful energy would use the Law of Attraction to attract wonderful things into our lives.
Now our advertised perception would cause us to see that, at second glance, life is more wonderful and more loving than we initially thought… and we are too.
Love & Light,
Kalyn
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