| "We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of | | | | your thoughts have a huge influence on your |
| perceptions." Gerald J. Simmons | | | | perception of the world. |
| These days there's a lot of talk about the Law of | | | | So, as far as perception goes, we are not victims at |
| Attraction. But the most effective way to get what | | | | all: just the opposite. We control what we perceive. |
| you want in your life has more to do with the Law of | | | | The external influences do not control what we |
| Perception. The Law of Perception is quite simple and | | | | perceive. Consider this: at any one moment in time you |
| is the basis for turning your perspective around. It is | | | | are surrounded by approximately four million sensory |
| also the basis my "Joy Technique," an advanced | | | | inputs that you can choose to focus on. Yep, believe it |
| training program to jump start folks into a life of | | | | or not, that is what science has measured. Seem like |
| complete joy. Here it is. "Your internal dialogs dictate | | | | an exaggeration? Look around. You can choose from |
| what you will see and experience in your outside | | | | every 1/10 inch of your desk, every pencil, every piece |
| reality" Although the law itself is simple, its implications | | | | of shag on your carpet. Pull out a magnifier and you |
| are staggering. Out of all the thousands of things they | | | | can multiply the choices even farther. Thousands of |
| teach you in school they don't teach you very much | | | | sights, smells, sounds, and sensations that can be |
| about the voices that are going on in your mind and | | | | interpreted as warm, cold, soft, sharp, bright, dull, near, |
| how they are affecting everything you perceive. | | | | far, and the list goes on and on.. .ad infinitum. Here is |
| Yet those voices are one of the most noticeable | | | | the kicker. |
| things in our lives. Constantly jabbering away and | | | | We got 4,000,000 to choose from but, surprise, |
| commenting on and in most cases criticizing-almost | | | | science has shown the brain can only experience |
| everything we see around us. I say voices because | | | | 2,000 at a time! So what about the other 3,998,000? |
| there's more than one. There is usually a loud and | | | | Well, we choose not to let those in through our filters. |
| critical voice in the foreground but there is also a | | | | And what are those filters? They are your belief |
| gentler more loving voice in the background. Since time | | | | systems which are based on what you expect to see! |
| immemorial great writers have written about the | | | | See where I am going here? We filter out the vast |
| conflict between those two voices. This battle is so | | | | majority of the sensory data that surrounds us. And |
| much a part of being human that it is often humorously | | | | because each of us filters out different stuff, it stands |
| depicted as an angel on one shoulder and a devil on | | | | to reason that each individual person's reality is not |
| the other. Which isn't to say this is a question of religion | | | | exactly the same. So the secret to existing in joy has |
| but rather a contrast between the original | | | | a whole lot to do with deciding which of those filters |
| consciousness of you and the person you became | | | | you are going to use to sort out the vast amounts of |
| after years of programming . If you learn how to | | | | sensory data around you. Simple example. You are |
| identify each of those voices and use that knowledge | | | | driving down the highway. |
| to your advantage. | | | | There is a car up ahead on the right, pulled over by a |
| Because once you can control those internal dialogs | | | | police officer. On the left, there is a gorgeous sunset |
| you will have far more control over what you see and | | | | over a beautiful pond full of geese. Which do you |
| experience in your world. Those voices both have | | | | choose as you drive by? Where do you look: the |
| significantly more power then you ever imagined. By | | | | beauty or the stress? It is always your choice. The |
| learning to control them you can mold your life into a | | | | person who is pulled over has no more or less to do |
| new shape, if that is your desire. Applying the truth of | | | | with your life than the beautiful sight. Another simple |
| the Law of Perception and controlling those internal | | | | example... You are in line in a store. There are some |
| dialogs can change the entire world you are seeing. | | | | magazines in the rack in front of you and you scan |
| You have way more control over what you perceive | | | | the headlines. At the front of the line are an extremely |
| then you realize. The Law of Perception may seem | | | | slow checker and a customer who has forgotten her |
| so totally alien to your "reality" that you are snickering | | | | checkbook. Do you relax and pick up a magazine; or |
| right now. It certainly did to mine. Until I proved it works. | | | | do you get irritated and impatient with the situation? It is |
| The Law of Perception is based on timeless truths | | | | always your choice. Your day is full of literally |
| that have been taught by for thousands of years by | | | | thousands of small decisions that are equivalent to |
| wise men and women and enlightened Avatars. It is | | | | those examples. Thousands of times you can choose |
| also based on the latest scientific discoveries in | | | | the beauty of the moment or the stress you create by |
| quantum physics. Basically, what keeps us locked in a | | | | wishing things were different. |
| world of stress, strife, disease, problems and confusion | | | | A big part of grounding oneself in joy is realizing this |
| is our thinking patterns. We have taught ourselves to | | | | simple, obvious fact and using it to your advantage by |
| believe everything we see is "reality," and therefore is | | | | training your mind to choose the beauty. Your internal |
| fixed and unchangeable. If reality is fixed and | | | | dialogue has a whole lot of control over whether you a |
| unchangeable you can feel pretty hopeless. This would | | | | choosing beauty or not. That lesson is basically this: |
| mean your entire existence is just like a ping-pong ball | | | | The images and internal dialogs in your mind are major |
| being bounced around by random events. That sort of | | | | controlling factors in your perception of reality. All of |
| worldview can put you in a state of mind where you | | | | our lives we have been told that what you can see |
| feel a victim. And it's the way the vast majority of | | | | with your own eyes is reality. What I didn't get to |
| people see their life. | | | | discover until I was nearly 50 was that we get to |
| Thank goodness it really isn't the truth at all. The | | | | control what we see. Once we master how to control |
| reasons we have been programmed into this | | | | what we see (in other words what we let through our |
| worldview are quite complex. In a nutshell, we have | | | | filtration system) we can literally change the world |
| been taught things are a certain way so we can be | | | | around us (our reality) and exist in a state of joy. |
| controlled and manipulated. But I hear you saying, | | | | Those images and internal dialogs are literally creating |
| "Science proves that reality is fixed and unchangeable, | | | | the reality you are experiencing this very moment. |
| right?" Nope, actually many respected names in | | | | Change those dialogs and you will change your world. |
| science believe just the opposite. Our own individual | | | | Learn how to control what your mind sees, says and |
| reality is based more on what we "perceive" is out | | | | does and you can develop the skill to be able to use |
| there, rather than what is actually there. Testing with | | | | your mind to consistently receive what you really |
| PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans and | | | | desire. Soon each day can reflect a continuous |
| Functional MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans | | | | feedback loop of joyful and loving existence. It is as |
| clearly demonstrate that the same part of your brain | | | | simple as making the decision to take charge of your |
| lights up whether you're looking at something, imagining | | | | point of view by using the Law of Perception. |
| something, or just remembering it. This means that | | | | |