What you give is what you grow.
What captures your mind controls your life and what you engage with you empower.
What you give is what you grow. What captures your mind controls your life and what you engage with you empower. The gift of choice isn’t as much about influencing life as it is about practicing the art of interacting with it.
When we change our perspectives we shift our perceptions, guiding ourselves to see more of what we wish to see in the world, in others, and in ourselves. Our beliefs prime our brains to focus more on what we think we will find and consequently, that’s exactly what happens.
In psychology, confirmation bias identifies our natural inclination to search for and prefer information that supports our previously held ideas and beliefs; in other words, the lens you look through actively colors your landscape. If none of us see the world in the same way and if everyone is swayed by unavoidable subjectivity, then the best we can do is use our selective attention to experience more of what we desire in our lives.
One way to do this is to practice the pause. Between every thought is a space, a stillness, a nothingness from which everything is born. If you can enter that space, you have taken the first step toward learning how to respond instead of react, allowing yourself…
