Living life is a lot like looking through a prison.

You know, the way that we look at the world is how it appears to us.

If you think about that for a minute, you consider the fact that your mind ultimately is responsible

for what you experience.

You know, your consciousness is really the only thing that you know.

And if we think about what your consciousness is for a moment,

it's the sum total of... your everything that's happening in the world outside of your skin, your environment, the world around you.

And our conditioning, our past experiences and all that type of thing heavily influence how we see the world.

Or should I say how we're set up to see the world?

So if we consider that the world as we experience it exists in our minds in terms of how our minds perceive reality,

then minds perceive reality. Then in a metaphorical way, not in a literal way, the entire world exists only in our minds.

Of course, the world doesn't exist in our minds, we exist in the world,

but as far as our experience of it, it's all happening upstairs in our brains.

So it's interesting to consider that if the world is experienced in our mind,

then that means that our mind influences everything that we experience.

So just to unpack that one a little bit. everything that we experience.

So just to unpack that one a little bit, if how we think about life in reality, how we think

about situations and ourselves exist in our minds, then that is going to influence

how we see the world and therefore it's going to influence our perception and experience of life itself.

That's why perspective is so powerful, because if we can learn to understand and become aware of what

I was just talking about, then we can understand to shift it and we can change our perspective intentionally and therefore

create a closer version of what it is in life that we want to experience.

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