It’s been over thirty years since I had this experience and yet it’s so vivid that I am still learning from it today. In this article, I’ll share why the insight from this experience was so important-and how it led to another insight that was even more profound. This second insight opened the door to a special technique that I now use every day to put me into a state of heightened awareness and powerful positive energy. I hope you’ll find these insights just as powerful in your life.

The first experience happened on a sunny spring day in the early 1980s, when I was attending St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. I was walking up the steps to the library and my mind was running over notes from my last class, when I saw a leaf on the ground in front of me. Now, normally, a leaf wouldn’t stop me in my tracks, but I can say that this particular leaf changed my life. And here’s why.

“Hey, that’s a sycamore leaf,” I thought. I looked up and saw this massive tree towering over me. “Wow, what an awesome tree! It must be hundreds of years old. How could I have missed that up to now?”

I had passed this way hundreds of times before, but I’d never even noticed that tree. That’s when this insight flashed into my mind. “All our experiences are like that!” I stood still as the meaning of that sunk in. The words “What we experience is the result of what we bring to the experience!” came into my head. I rushed into the library, found a desk, and began to write furiously as the impact of this hit me.

You see I had just learned about the sycamore tree and the shape of its leaf in my last class. That’s why I now saw the leaf and then the tree that I had never seen before, even though I’d passed by it hundreds of times. Because I now knew something about it, it now meant something to me, and that knowledge was fresh in my mind, I saw the tree for the first time.

So, why is this important?

It’s important because everything we experience is like that. Our current experience is the result of “where we are coming from at the moment.” At that moment, I was coming from a class in which I learned about that tree and “all-of-a-sudden” it appeared before me-almost like magic.

In that moment, it dawned on me that what we experience is the result of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, memories, knowledge, insight, the state of our body, and countless other internal factors that filter what appears before us. What we experience from the infinite variety of possible experiences that are available at any given moment is determined by our inner state.

Now, here’s the exciting part. If what we experience is the result of what we bring to our experience, that gives us tremendous power to change our experiences by changing “where we are coming from.” If we choose to focus on something different, hold a different belief, feel a different feeling, learn something new, change the physical state of our body, or any number of other internal changes we could make, we change our experience. We have the power to do that instantly-at any moment!

I call this first insight “The Law of Perception”: What we experience is the result of where we are coming from at the moment.

This insight so awakened my mind that it set me off on a quest to learn more about how we can shift our internal state to experience life in new and better ways.

This insight is also important because, when we don’t understand this Law of Perception, it can lead to all kinds of struggle.

First, when we are unaware of the process by which we have experiences, we think that we just “see things the way they are.” Experiences seem to just happen to us and we live with what we get. When we are unaware of the process by which we experience things, we live as passive receivers of whatever happens, rather than seeing ourselves as conscious co-creators of our experience.

Second, we get very attached to our experiences, thinking that they represent what is Really happening. When we don’t understand the process by which we have experiences, we hang onto our perceptions as if they are the REAL TRUTH. We cling to our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and experiences. We identify ourselves with them.

This leads to all sorts of conflict. It sets up conflict with others when they don’t see things the way I do. It also leads to internal struggle. For example, what if I have the thought that “I’m not safe, “I’m incompetent,” “I’m unworthy,” or any number of limiting beliefs that I could hold? If I view these beliefs as “the way things are,” I’m in for a struggle.

Third, when we don’t understand that our experiences result from what we are doing inside, we end up seeking what we want “outside ourselves.” We search for what we want in other people, jobs, status, recognition, and things. We end up searching outside ourselves for something that is only available inside. The result is that we “come up empty.”

Now, when I realized that what I experience is the result of where I am coming from at the moment, it set me off on a quest to discover how to come from a good place!

That is how the second experience and insight came about.

The second insight is about a powerful possibility related to “where we are coming from.” It’s about a powerful inner state that is not only possible, but it reflects the very essence of who we are. In Part Two of this article, I’ll share the second experience that led me to that second insight and a special process that I now use every day to shift into clear awareness and powerful positive energy.

If you’re anxious to learn more about this special process, check out the link in the Resource Box below.

I look forward to joining you in Part Two of this article.

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Category: Self Help
Keywords: transformation, change your life, personal growth, power of perception, limiting beliefs