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Shifting Perceived Realities
What you perceive to be reality magnifies™ ... beca lewis

PERCEPTION DETERMINES THE PERCEIVED
by Beca Lewis © 4/2008

I was trying to get the last lotion out of the bottom of the pump bottle.  I could tell there was at least a half inch of lotion down there, but the bottom of the pump stem didn’t reach it. 

At first I was annoyed because that meant I would have to take the pump out and squeeze out the rest of the lotion.

I decided to try out a simple perception shift on my non-positive point of view about short stemmed pumps.  I thought instead, quite briefly, “Intelligence is the substance of Life.” As a result, without thinking about it, I saw a way to lump the lotion and the pump worked for another week or so.

Not an earth shaking event, but just like 2 plus 2 = 4, then sticking with the perception that Infinite Intelligence is the substance of Life must also shift bigger events from the inside out because our perception of something is what is perceived.

The substance of everything is the idea of it, not the reverse.  We can apply this realization to everything in our lives.  Actually not can, but must.  We can not continue to act from the false belief that what appears on the outside is reality and expect the world to change.

We can see the results of the acceptance of this false belief in every aspect of our lives since we become at the mercy of whatever we accept as real.  It can be as minor as a short stem in a pump bottle to what appears as more serious misconceptions like recession, famine, job loss and wars.

As we observe what our five senses report back to us we can see which misconception is currently claiming to be real in our lives so that we can replace it with Truth. For example, recently I heard a TV commentator say about a famous artist that he was, “Hard working, but not beyond promoting himself.” 

It appears that the commentator was coming from two opposing, and neither one correct, perceptions. First that the artist had a right to be famous because he was “hard working,” and second that he didn’t have a right to be famous because he promoted himself.

Both these perceptions are widely held, subtly powerful, incorrect beliefs. If accepted we would believe that first, in order to be successful we must work hard and second, that we must not ever look like we believe that we have a unique value to share.

Let’s shift our perception about these beliefs.  First the hard work.  This concept stems from the curse of hard work imposed upon us from the second chapter of Genesis when we chose to know the duality of good and evil. It was specifically leveled at men, or the male quality in each of us.

When we return to the point of view, the perception, the awareness, that there is only One Infinite Intelligence and that one is Good it eliminates the cause of the curse, and therefore the curse itself.

Hard work is no longer seen as the path to success, but is seen for what it really is, the activity and joy of expressing and sharing who we are in unique ways. This awareness eliminates the second misconception that we may not shine our specific light since it is a quality of Light to shine, so shine we must. 

Often we think that we must do huge profound things in life in order to be of use to the world. As in all beliefs that start from the outside in, this is the reverse of the truth.  It is the small things shifted to the correct perception which shift the world.

It is very easy to be distracted by the seemingly huge problems facing the times we live in and get caught up in the glitz and glamour and display of fixing. But, this will never solve the problem since the perception of the thing is the thing. 

What we can do is question what we are saying and doing to see if it is in alignment with our currently highest awareness of Truth and then shift our perception to that and stay there. 

Like lifting weights, each time we make that shift we become stronger students of Truth, and the appearance of all misconceptions, from short stemmed pumps to wars and recessions, will fade away from our experience revealing the beauty of the Infinite Intelligence that is the substance of Life.

Have you ever stopped doing something you loved to do because of fear?  Last summer I stopped riding my bike and running because I was chased by dogs. All the joy of both those activities seemed snatched away.  With the coming of spring I realized how I had allowed myself to stop doing something I love to do because of an outside circumstance.

With Love,

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