We often travel through life on auto-pilot. Waking up, going about our routine business of the day, return home to disengage, and relive the cycle over again tomorrow. I KNOW THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS! When the destination is an Ideal, It is the spirit of the journey and how it is executed that is the true experience and fulfillment in life.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Subjective Reality


It is our subjective reality which gives our lives meaning and determines the quality and nature of our  relationship with the world around us.

The subjective reality exists in our mind as thoughts.
The world around us is painted with qualities based on the value and characteristic of our thoughts toward what we are perceiving. 

Where do these values and characteristics come from?

Responses to life's experiences are developed by learned standards and life lessons.
The accumulation of both of these provides our minds with a register of responses.

This mental registry is shaped by our ideas and thoughts, unique and personal to our individual selves.

Learned Standards are in-formed into us, given shape by an accepted and demonstrated belief system instituted within schooling, social norms, religious practices, parental guidance, etc.. These systems of beliefs form for us to a variable degree our understanding of what is right and wrong as well as what works and what doesn't. "In-forming" our thoughts and ideas.

Life Lessons are the test by which we examine whether our Learned Standards have value to our experience. They open the door to seeing for ourselves what does work and does not work for us as individuals. A Litmus Test as it were, to determine an acid or a base, truth or a lie, enjoyment or displeasure.... Our own Personal and Unique Thoughts and Ideas about Life as demonstrated through Experiences.

Regardless of what may occur in the Objective Reality, it is the Subjective Reality which has more substance and meaning to the individual. The subjective shapes the world around us and gives it color and sound. Beauty or ugliness are truly in the eye of the beholder.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Perception is Reality


Reality is defined most clearly by the individual who perceives.

For the Purpose of Defining this Blog let's interpret that assertion as: "Perception Is Reality"

When observing others, one can only wonder what might be going on in their mind, how they might be seeing the world around them. Is their Reality different from our own...? In so far as our perceptions differ, Yes!

Two people experience the same rainy day, in the same place, at the same time.
At the end of that day a person calls each of them and asks- "How was the weather?"
The first person responds with- 
"Miserable! It's been cold and rainy, Ugh. I've been stuck inside"
The second person responds with- 
"Wonderful! It rained all day. I've spent the day curled up in my favorite blanket, reading my favorite book"

Same rainy day --- Different Perspectives.

In a material sense, we all have common perceptions of the world. There is no mistaking that our physical reality has common characteristics which we all perceive in the same way.....
The Rain- The Objective Reality.

So what is the difference in the two realities?

Subjective Reality