I will see it when I believe it!

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When we say “seeing is believing”, we are saying to ourselves there is something out there that is so objective, real and unchanging that it is the reality that we process when we see it.

 

I am curious, how many of us inverse it and think that what we “see” is what we “believe”. That is “believing is seeing”. When we believe in it, we see it. It is actually a subconscious choice we have already made what to see. We choose what we see, and ignore the rest. We are actually projecting our mind onto the outside world and find proof of what we believe in what we “see”.

 

Another way to say it is that we “see” what we have practiced seeing by default. And we refuse to believe in things we can’t “see”. The real problem here is that what we see is what we already believe in.

 

If we want to be able to have different things come our way or manifest, we have to start believing in whatever we want to manifest first.

 

Let’s say we want to be the kindest person even when we are challenged by difficult people. Now that is something we can’t see possible. We don’t believe it’s possible.

 

Suppose we suspend our disbelief, and act as if that is our new default mode. We can start seeing difficult people who challenge us as a gift to us. They have come to teach us how to look at everyone around us with compassion. They have come to help us make positive transformation.

 

Now, once we have suspended our (previous) disbelief, we can start a new belief and see the world in a whole new way.

 

I am curious, how many of us see our beliefs as getting in our own way of liberating ourselves from some of the prisons we have created?