What you perceive to be is your reality

Perception is Reality

I have had firsthand experience on how a certain perception strongly influenced the reality that I was living. This only became clear to me when my perception changed.

A while ago I was of the strong opinion that my daily job (social work) was not suitable anymore for my being and I was very outspoken about it. I dreaded going to work and was highly convinced that I needed to change my job.

I was convinced that the job was holding me back to live a fuller and happier life.  I felt strongly that something needed to change and that something had to do with an external event. Something outside of myself.

I  made preparations and had a plan as to when to do it and how. But then something changed. It was very subtle. It was as if a soft new breeze had passed through my conviction. It went unnoticed in the beginning but the seed was planted.

I began noticing it as it felt as if there were cracks occurring in my strongly held conviction. I began entertaining different thoughts and emotions as to how grateful I am for this particular job. Thoughts about freedom that comes with it and the gratitude I was feeling when I would help a client to help him or herself. Over time the penny dropped and I realized that I WAS creating change for the better.

My tasks at work didn’t change a bit. It was my perception that did. I started feeling joyous when being at work. The relationships with my colleagues were starting to blossom and I was more able to work from my intuition.

The cards had been reshuffled for my feeling. Now the choice to stop or not could be made from a more unbiased predisposition. Whereas before I was highly stubborn and my ego would not allow any shifts in my conviction. Now the choice would be based on something more substantial. It would be based on a much broader and clearer vision.

In hindsight, I feel that it was a shift in my state of consciousness which preceded the shift in my conviction. When this shift occurred I cannot tell with certainty, but that it occurred is indisputable. 

This experience really stands out for me as to how perception creates reality.  

In lak'esh (I am another You),

Nuri