Understanding Perception: Identify, Understand, Choose - Hardcover

Panteleos, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1609106342 ISBN 13: 9781609106348

Publisher: Booklocker.com, 2011

Synopsis

This book teaches you how we identify, understand, and choose what we see. When we can identify the feelings or beliefs that are projecting our movie, then it's a simple choice to either continue with this movie of our lives or choose to create another one. When we understand the experience of the process, we are able to manifest choices that once seemed impossible.

About this title

From the Author

The truth of us is simple to understand if perceived correctly. It is our natural state and there is great comfort in that. There are an incredible number of books on who and what we are. Most are true and most have extremely powerful messages in them. But we often miss the most important points. The experience of our journey is the most rewarding and joyous part of our existence. No book will replace your experience of whatever it is you choose. Words cannot describe the feelings of an experience. Choosing your new direction will be the simplest choice you will ever make maintaining it will be your biggest challenge. The process (identify, understand, choose) described in this book will assist you in understanding the challenges and maintaining your new choices. We are solely here in this dimension to experience. What you choose to experience is up to you. With gratitude,

From the Inside Flap

How many of us have envisioned the life we wanted to have and then have actually attained it, only to find that we were still unsatisfied? We then proceed to pursue and attain other goals that we've convinced ourselves will make us happy. Then, only to be disappointed again, we decide there must be yet another higher platform to attain that will give us even greater happiness. Have you realized yet that your happiness is not attached to your successes or presumed failures?

Say you have the house of your dreams, the car of your dreams, the lifestyle of your dreams, and all the money of your dreams--but you're still not happy. If you think these things will make you happy, think again. There are plenty of people who have all the things I have described and they are suffering and living in misery. Think of all of the famous, rich, and glamorous celebrities that take drugs, see therapists on a weekly basis, check in and out of rehab centers, and are depressed. How can this be possible? How can these famous actors, billionaires, and tycoons continue to live a life of misery? These are the people we glorify--they can't be miserable. They have it all. Think again.

People can choose what they want, but often live a life of settling for less. When they get what they want they are still unfulfilled. We all know when things aren't going the way we wish. We don't need to identify the obvious. We all know our story, but it is time we learn that we can create in a whole new way. If our story comes from frustration, then we will continue to see our life, our stories, and our situations as frustrating. How do we stop and shift our beliefs? The key is learning how to identify, understand, and choose what we want and how we want to see ourselves. It doesn't matter if what we perceive is true or false or right or wrong. The only thing that matters is if we understand that it's only our perception and we must take 100% of the responsibility for it. It is time to understand two important things: we create the feeling around everything we see and, we are the only one that can change it. The specifics of the situation do not matter; it only matters that we identify and understand that we are projecting that feeling. I'm going to present three specific and tangible steps to follow to help make this shift. But this is not a linear process, although it is logical. It will require that we are 100% integral with ourselves and put ourselves as the creators of what we see.

I've never run into anyone that said they didn't want to be happy. We have the choice to lead ourselves out of our stories and to be where we really want to be. We get lost in our stories and think change should be difficult and complicated. Until we have identified and understand the reasons why we have created our story or situation, we need to trust and allow ourselves to open to the possibility that situations are never what they seem. Our feelings and beliefs are primary indicators of how we created the way our story looks to us. For example, if we live in dependency for reasons that generally tie into our personal history and habit, we will project dependency onto all of our life stories. Once we identify the core feeling we can automatically get an "Aha" which is difficult to deny. Once we identify the feeling, we have the very key to make the shifts we want to make to live the way we want to live. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

3 STEPS FOR UNDERSTANDING PERCEPTION

The following three steps form the roadmap that will assist you in understanding your perception. I'll refer to them over and over again in the anecdotes and stories sprinkled throughout the book. Our feelings create the situations around our intentions. This is the most powerful piece to understand. Our lives are in some way,shape, or form exactly how we envisioned them. The situations we encounter in life continue to bring back to us the same emotional feelings that we wanted to move away from. Our feelings do not deceive us. If we feel a certain way, that is where we will continue to create from. Many of us think we have a choice, but if our choice is misery or misery, do we really have a choice? We put ourselves in a no-choice situation and somehow convince ourselves that less misery is somehow happiness. Here are the keys to move from enslavement (putting ourselves in position of no-choice) to freedom (understanding what our choice is and choose again). STEP #1: IDENTIFY As soon as I see a person or situation that bothers me in any way, I have a choice. I can choose to see that it is that person or situation that bothers me or I can choose to see that it is the feeling I create around that person or situation that bothers me. How many webs of stories will be created from not correctly perceiving that person or situation? Probably an endless number of them. If I choose to understand that I created the feeling around that person or situation, then I will start to seek within me. That person may or may not share what I feel, but I can't deny that I am the projector of the thought. I have identified what I am creating by what I perceive. I can either see that someone or something can have an effect on me or I am creating the effect that I do or do not want to see. In order for me to change what I see, I must choose whether or not I like the direction I am going in. Until I identify my choice, it is difficult to move forward and choose. Once I identify what my choice is, I'm free to choose and will make the decision quickly and easily. I must confirm within myself that I'm not choosing different degrees of the same thing. For example, my wife wants me to go shopping with her, but I get a call from a friend who asks me to play poker. I would prefer to play poker, but I know my wife will be upset if I don't go shopping with her. Suppose I chose to play poker and then I felt bad that I didn't go shopping with my wife. Or suppose I decided to go shopping with my wife and then I felt bad because I would rather be playing poker. Have I given myself a choice? No matter what choice I make, the same feeling of guilt is projected around the situation. I tend to pick that which will bring me less pain, but is that somehow happiness? Instead of my choice being between guilt or guilt (which is no choice, but rather enslavement), I can choose between guilt or freedom. I now understand that I have a choice and that choosing between different degrees of the same thing is not making a choice at all

Edition details

• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609106342
• ISBN 13: 9781609106348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 108