I was finished with her hair early and was waiting for my next appointment to arrive. We had started talking about the power of intuition when she shared a childhood story with me: "When I was nine, my family did not have a lot of money, but some how they managed to put me in a ski camp. Their sacrifice became a heavy burden on me; especially after my bad dream one night about breaking my leg in a ski accident. I wanted to but I could not bring myself to quit the camp. So about a week after that night, I fell while skiing and broke my arm ." I was listening to her and at the same time my mind was on the program I watched the night before on origins of our perceptions and that how we 'see' and experience things. I was reminded once again that "we do not actually see with our eyes!!!! Our eyes just pic up information and send to the brain; it is our brain that decides what is it that we are seeing, and same is true bout what we hear, taste or touch!!!" I had first read about this scientific realization a few years back in a book by Deepak Chopra called "Timeless Mind Ageless Body" and I remembered this simple and logical statement had intrigued me tremendously, and I was further astonished to learn that according to many scientists "1- our eyes pick up and send in excess of ten times more information then our brain can process or identify; 2- we can NOT see or experience what our mind does not know already." So that morning when my friend/client was sharing her childhood memory with me, I had gotten stuck on the part of her story about a nine years old's perception of money because when I was eight I remember my family did not have or had less money then my friends family. By now she had noticed that I was quiet and in deep thoughts and asked,"Why so quiet? What are you thinking about?"
I told her about what I had learned, and how we see and experience things. I added, "I am curious about the first perception of us as children, and how the information we receive from other people (family and friends) has no meaning to us until it mixes up with our personal feelings and then 'reality' is born. For example, how did you and I come to the conclusion that our parents did not have a lot of money? As young children, we had no reference of money until our parents, our siblings or others introduced us not to the concept of money but their bias definition that came with deficiency. And for us that information became real once we had our first personal 'feeling' about it - like feeling bad, sad, lack of confidence or even shame and so on."
"I kind of understand what you are talking about," she said it with a big reservation and added, "Here are my major problems with your theory. 1- if what you are saying was true then every child who grows up with the same 'definition of money' would end up struggling with money all their life. 2- I experience new things all the time like new food to taste, new fabric to touch, new sound or music to hear, and even new pictures and places to see, so I do not really agree with the 'scientists' to begin with."
I liked her deep and quick evaluation, and I recalled having the same objections when I first encountered the information. So I said, "I think we all experience some kind of 'money deficiency'. It mainly shows up because money symbolizes different things to people like influence, freedom, survival, comfort, power, self importance, pride, respect, security, and being loved, so everyone (to a degree) struggles with one or more of these feelings." At this point she was listening and thinking so I went on, "As for your second objection, I think we humans come with a 'LIKE Function' as in testing crocodile meat for the first time and we say 'it taste LIKE chicken, this new material feels LIKE velvet, this new music sounds LIKE the band I knew in the 90's'. Once we have our initial reality structure and our vocabulary, our mind easily finds new identifications and definitions." "Oh!" she said. "That's something to think about. I have never looked at it that way."
In a broader term, if everything that we experience for a first time is never organic and it's built on the information 'languaged' to us by other people with different experiences in life, to create any new reality, theoretically it should be possible to first gather up the new information and then seed the information with a appropriate Positive emotion and give it time to grow...
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