What miracles are you focusing on?


What are you focusing on? The positive in your life or the negative? The mind censors everything you think, and not all of what you think is true. The mind needs to filter all the crazy amounts of info that it receives every minute, and it filters by deleting info, distorting info and generalizing…
Deletion:
Deletion occurs when we selectively pay attention to certain aspects of our experience and not others. We overlook or omit others. Without deletion, we would be faced with too much information. Maybe you already are overloaded with information and you feel like you have too much.
Distortion:
Distortion occurs when we misrepresent reality by making shifts in our experience of sensory data. In Indian philosophy, there is a well-known story of distortion in the rope versus snake analogy. A man walking along the road sees what he believes to be a snake and yells “SNAKE.” However, upon arriving at that place he is relieved as he discovers that what he sees only a piece of rope.
Distortion is an important component and can be used to motivate ourselves. Motivation can happen when we actually misrepresent, change or garble the material that has come into our neurology. The information has been changed by one of our filtering systems.
Generalization:
Finally, comes generalization, and here we draw global conclusions based on one or two experiences. Do you know someone who has one experience and forms an opinion about all similar experiences? EG: “I hate all Indian food because I ate curry once and did not like it.” so try something else instead of cloncluding thta is the only dish they cook!!
Usually, the conscious mind can only handle five to seven pieces of information at any given time. It gets overloaded. So, we tend to oversimplify, make decisions and set attitudes based on insufficient information. It’s critical to understand this in terms of how we sinthesice and interpret info about ourselves, who we are and are capable of, including our health and presenting symptoms and dis-eases. Generalization is very common in the world today. Everybody does it. It’s is a result of the digital information causing information overload and taking over sensibility.
So, have fun, chill out and then have some more fun.
And we’ll talk to you again in the next newsletter