Perceptions.- How we perceive a thing or a situation has nothing to do, really, with the actual thing we’re looking at.
You’re in a forest, looking at a tree and you see the strong trunk supporting branches covered in leaves, providing shelter for a bird’s nest and baby birds chirping in it and you’re filled with joy and love. Your friend standing next to you looks at the same tree and sees a grimacing face in the trunk, the branches twisted and menacing, the baby birds with open beaks looking hungry.
You’re happy, wanting to walk and explore, your friend is fearful and wants to be out of there. The difference in the two perceptions is in the mind, in the conditioning life has provided for each of you.
The tree and the nest does not make anyone happy or afraid; it’s their imagination, or subconscious memories that project what’s already in them onto things and situations appearing in their reality. What has to be changed is their feelings, their perceptions, and the thing itself will then elicit new thoughts and feelings.
When you have a challenge, the first thing to do is change your perception of the situation, from this is bad, awful, dangerous, unsatisfactory, a really low vibration, to what is the possible good side, the benefit, the gain in it? And then, how can I respond to the situation with more understanding, compassion, consideration and harmony than is being shown to me in this instance?
As soon as we start focusing on the higher frequencies of benefits, gains, and blessings, our frequency rises a little. They can be gains and blessings to other people, as well as ourselves. They need not be material; they can be benefits in knowledge or wisdom; in higher understanding of how people function; allowance of differences, or pulling out of us resourcefulness we never knew we had, and so boosting our confidence in our own abilities.
A problem lives at its own frequency, and when you match that frequency, you experience the problem. It appears in your life. The only permanent solution is for you to change your frequency, which must have been close to the frequency of the problem you’re experiencing, that’s why it’s now in your life.
If your response to your problem comes from your present vibration of upset, anger, sadness, or resentment, you are only projecting those frequencies into your future and will again create another problem, not solving the one you now have. Because they live at the lower frequencies you are at right now.
You are free to choose what to think, what to pay attention to, how to act regardless of what other people do, how they act, how they think. You are a sovereign being in your own world, and your mission is to bring the highest qualities of Spirit into the material world you were born into, to the best of your knowledge and ability in every moment.
As you remember that and practice that, you will be raising yourself into higher and higher frequencies, where problems become smaller and smaller. Until a problem, even if you still see it, becomes so much less problematic!
