Change Your Interpretation, Change Your Reality
April 19th, 2006, 2:27 pm by Priya Florence Shah
Filed under My Life, Happiness, Personal Growth, Experiences, Self-Improvement, Attitude, Thoughts
A few days ago, I celebrated my birthday with my former classmates, some of whom I hadn’t seen in over 13 years.
It was fun being together, and we were able to share the things we’d learned over the years. I was especially glad for the way I’ve worked on changing my attitude.
I’d always been a very positive person. That is, until life gave me a free pass to the school of hard knocks. I had a lot of growing up to do, I guess.
But as I grew and read a lot of self-help literature, I learned that we see life not as IT IS, but as WE ARE.
We see life through our own filters, our interpretations. The meanings we give the events that shape our life are coloured by our beliefs and attitude.
If you see only problems and unhappiness, if you look at others and see only their faults, it’s because your life is a reflection of your thoughts and your attitude. It’s the Law of Subjective Reality at work.
A fish in a bowl cannot change its view of the watery world it lives in. But humans have a choice. We can decide to see the world the way we prefer. We can give life events any meaning we choose.
Give it a positive interpretation and you create a positive attitude. On the other hand, a negative interpretation disempowers you and attracts more negativity.
The key to dealing with our problems is to see them as an opportunity for growth. To use our life experiences to evolve into a better and stronger person.
As David Brinkley once said, A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Life by itself is meaningless. We give it the meaning we choose. So why not make a conscious choice to interpret your life events in a way that empowers you?
Create your own reality.
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