How do you see?

We see our life and the world through our individual filters. The experiences we have had create those filters and therefor affect our perceptions.
Have you ever been in a situation with someone, both of you heard the same words spoken and were in exactly the same situation, and yet when you later talked about it you had a completely different recollection of what happened and what was said?  This is what our filters do. Everything we experience is unique to us, even if we are sat beside a person hearing the same information. They will hear it through the filter of their previous experience and you through yours.
In understanding this we can see that there is no 'truth'. There is only 'my truth' or 'your truth'. Yet how often to conflicts arise between people, towns or countries that are about 'truth'? Religious truth, political truth or medical truth.
These filters are always at work. Everything we experience comes through the filters. The only way to get past this filtered world is to systematically bring them to the conscious mind and evaluate how they serve us today.
Most often these filters have been created when we were very small, they may have been perfectly valid at the time, but as adults their usefulness has long since passed.
Here is an example:
A young child may be told not to talk to strangers. This is a great instruction for a young child. However if that child continues into adult life following that instruction it will result in a very disconnected young person.
This is any easy and simple example. Many of our filters are somewhat more complex and less obvious, but they are there and if you are not achieving all that you want in life, you probably have old filters still working you.
I invite you to look at an area in your life that is not bringing you all that you hoped for and spend some time journalling about what you believe. You may be surprised by what you find.

Today I seek the filters that no longer serve me through quiet contemplation. I release them easily and effortlessly and create a new, expanding vision for my life.