One of the biggest ways that we inhibit our capacity (and the capacity of others) to grow is through our past perceptions. Without examining these perceptions, they’re repeatedly carried forward and applied to the people (including ourselves) and events that arise in our experience, leaving no room for us to expand our conscious awareness of truth. And we don’t want that!

First, a look at how perceptions are created…

They’re created by the way in which we’ve chosen to interpret a neutral event…yep, that’s right, all events are neutral; we’re just so identified with the past perception we keep carrying forward that we fail to see the neutrality in the event we’re applying it to!

If we don’t work to bring light to the way in which we choose to interpret the events that occur in our lives, we’re at risk of unconsciously assigning a meaning to them. This unconscious choice is largely based on our outer conditioning, which is predominantly based in ego-consciousness.

When we’re operating from ego-consciousness, our inclination is to feel that everything is happening outside of us to us. We tend to blame something or someone …

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