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Is Reality Different Than It Seems?
As you read this your brain is being flooded with more information than your conscious mind could ever handle. Fortunately, you don’t have to – your pre-conscious mind has mental filters that limit what actually gets through to your conscious brain.
At any given moment, your brain is receiving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of bits of information through a lot sensory inputs. Most are evaluated and acted upon automatically.
Consider the fact that all the sensory nerves in your body continually fire, sending information to your brain, most of which you are never aware of. If I asked you what your right foot feels like you can tell me. But before I asked, you probably weren’t consciously aware of the messages coming from your foot.
That’s an example of how this pre-conscious filtering works.
Here’s an example of how these mental filters can determine the reality we perceive. I used to drive a silver Camry. I don’t have that car anymore, but I always notice ones that are just like it while I’m driving.
All the others cars on the road fade into the general category of “cars” but the preconscious mind continually screens the incoming information for something that might be important to me. When it sees a car like my old Intrepid, it brings it to my conscious awareness.
This makes it obvious that our mental filters determine what we’re able to perceive in the world around us.
I see a road filled with silver Toyotas and you see red Chevys. They’re both there, but what each of us sees is determined by our filters.
This makes it pretty clear that the quality and type of a person’s mental filters are a big determinant in the quality of their life.
Since these mental filters are so important, you’d think everyone would pay more attention to how they’re formed and what they are. But they don’t.
It can be different for you. Assume responsibility for your mental filters and change them to help you live your best possible life.
I’ve found a site that will help you do that: www.JFMcCaffreyMD
Dr McCaffrey has a lot of articles on all aspects ofvital living – mental, physical and emotional. you can read a bit more about mental filters at: How Real Is Your Reality?
I think you’ll also enjoy the page: Improve Your Worldview – A Modest Proposal to tell you an easy way to eliminate one the most negative influences on our mental filters.
When you’re at the site, be sure to sign up to get the free special The Surprising Power of the Heart. it’s information I haven’t seen anywhere. Among other things, it tells you how much more influence messages from the heart have on the brain than visa-versa. Check it out.
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