Personal Development Answers

Hello again to “Brain-Mind Enhancement”.

Interesting, isn’t it? Did the Introduction whet your appetite?

Obviously, Visual has to do with sight. What you see and how others see you. What images or pictures you make in your mind – these are either substantially empowering or substantially disempowering.

These Visual filters are the adjusted external events you experience in your life, and the internal realities you manifest as a result of these external stimuli.

In other words, what you see and what you internalize are not the same. Your internal map of reality is not reality itself. You take from the external event what your nonconscious mind allows in, according to certain criteria.

Now, I deliberately said adjusted because we all have had the experience of two or more people seeing the same event and describing that event quite differently. There will be similarities so that we can recognize that it’s the same event, but that’s it. Isn’t that so?

Each of these people has ‘adjusted’ the event, the 10,000,000 bits of information about the event, according to her/his visual filtration system which is dependent upon what s/he deletes, distorts or generalizes. These three will be clarified later.

Deleting, distorting and generalizing are some of the activities of your nonconscious mind. You, via your conscious mind, see an external event, but it’s your nonconscious mind that goes through a series of processing steps before it allows any of what the conscious mind has seen to become internalized, or not.

Now, after the processes of deleting, distorting and generalizing, we have a picture in our mind’s eye about the event, of what we have chosen to remember, thanks to the nonconscious mind. We may not be aware of the picture because there are other sensations which could be more dominant.

This all happens at lightning speed; faster than when you click your fingers. We aren’t even aware of it. The reasons why this happens will be dealt with as we go along.

So Visual has two major components, what we see externally and the internal picture we subsequently make of the experience.

You can already see that your reality is only your reality, your model of the world and no one else’s. Yes? Then, conversely, is also how others see you. But it’s not important to go into that.

I can hear you say: “Oops, whom did I try to convince today that my version of something was the correct version, not theirs, when they were adamant about their version?”

What was the emotional state evident in each of you as you each tried to persuade each other of the ‘truth’ of the event?

Which version was the truth?

You have probably heard people say, “I’ll believe it when I see it”. We now know that that really means, the way they will choose to see it, not necessarily the way it was.

So, who’s right?

Everyone is, from each person’s model of the world.

Now, I know that there are going to be a lot of “but, what about……….?”, and “but, wait a minute,…….”, “If someone does this or that, they are right, no way?

There are values issues that come into play as well, and values are also part of your filtration system, but, again, more on these later.

So, don’t you think that, realizing that everyone is behaving in accordance with their own model of the world, we can appreciate and be more tolerant of where people are coming from?

I’m not talking about being morally right here.

After all, we behave according to our model of the world, don’t we? Is it always in accord with what other people expect?

Next will be Auditory.

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