It’s All About YOU

No, really.  It really is all about you, and that is a very good thing.  Here is what I mean.  

There’s all the “stuff” that happens around you, and then there is your experience of it.  What actually happened and what you experienced happening are two different things.  What actually happened is completely neutral - neither right nor wrong, good nor bad.  That completely neutral event is then filtered through your consciousness to create your experience.  It’s all about you.

Everybody’s consciousness is different, which means that nobody experiences anything exactly the same way that you do.  Your experience of any event exists only within you.  This is why two people can have very different experiences of the same event.  This also means that nobody’s experience is “right” and, in fact, everybody’s experience is inaccurate compared to what actually took place.  What took place was completely unconditioned by anybody’s perceptions, but in order for you to experience it, it MUST be conditioned by yours.  It’s all about you.

So, I said this was good news.  Here’s why.  You have complete control over your consciousness and your perceptual filters.  By changing your consciousness, you will change your experience.  The events won’t change, but you will, and so will your experience of them.  Do you want more joyful experiences?  Focus on where you currently find joy in your experience.  Look for it, call it out, focus on it.  The more energy you put towards experiencing joy, the more it will color your perceptual filters and eventually, you’ll be seeing the world through joy-colored glasses.

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.”
~Richard Bach

If you go through life expecting things to be hard, unfair, or designed to keep you trapped in a life that is less than you want, your consciousness will filter your every experience through that mindset and provide you with the proof that you are right!

On the other hand…

“Argue for your constantly improving live, and sure enough you’ll live it!”
~Ben Jamison

Choose to see everything as an opportunity for your learning, upliftment, and  growth.  Cultivate your consciousness by looking for the opportunity in everything.  Like anything, the more you practice the better you’ll get.  Commit to a life that works for you, a life that provides you with opportunities for growth around every corner.  Do not settle for any experience feeling only limiting, destructive, or terrible.  Look for the opportunity with enough determination and intention and you’ll see it.  “Seek and ye shall find.”  Grab hold of that opportunity and pull from it every last bit of good it holds.  Do this often enough, and you will train your consciousness to filter every experience through the mindset of “this is going to improve my life in some way.”

It’s all about you.  You get to choose what filters you use.  However only you can change your perceptual filters because, after all, it’s all about you.  


Here’s to you!