Broken Perceptions Produces Broken Experiences.
Here's how to fix it.
First A Joke
You’ve heard the joke about the beautiful redhead who goes into her doctor’s office and complains that everything hurts.
Ok, here’s the joke, and then I promise to make a point.
“Impossible!” says the doctor, “Show me.”
The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left shoulder, and screamed, and then she pushed her elbow and screamed even more. She pushed her knee and screamed; likewise, she pushed her ankle and screamed. Everywhere she touched made her scream.
The doctor said, “You're not a redhead, are you?” “Well, no,” she said, “I'm a blonde.'
“I thought so,” the doctor said, “Your finger is broken!”
Don’t you love how symbolic this joke is?
Not the “blonde” part but the “only one thing broken” part.
Everything Is Not Broken
In our lives, we all do precisely what Miss Blonde did.
We touch everything, from money to love, with a broken perception.
It feels as if everything is going to hell-in-a-handbasket (one of my dad’s favorite sayings) when all that needs to be “doctored” is our perception.
We can tell we have a broken finger by the pain we feel, and we can tell a broken perception in the same way—by the pain we feel.
It is not necessarily a physical pain. However, that can be a symptom.
It is also emotional pain.
We all have both of these kinds of pains, at least some of the time.
Symptoms OF A Broken Perception
One symptom of a broken perception is the anger that is being expressed throughout the world.
There is anger over how others think, live, act, what they believe in, or even just what they look like.
In our own lives, we feel frustrated by the car in front of us, we snap at loved ones, life feels limited, and happiness starts to seep out of our days.
We experience all of this pain because of a broken perception.
What’s Broken
If we have a broken finger, we take the time to heal it.
However, broken perceptions often remain throughout a lifetime, causing pain whenever they touch something.
We all know what an unbroken finger looks like, but what about an unbroken perception?
What does it look like?
In an unbroken finger, all its parts line up perfectly. Everything functions together as one.
It works in the same way in an unbroken perception. Everything functions as one.
Start With What’s Not Broken
Let’s take the unbroken perception or point of view that God, Spirit, Infinite Intelligence is Love as Its essence and principle.
Most of us would agree that this is true about the Divine.
We also agree that given that the Infinite is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and omniaction, all that can be going on is Love.
So, where does the anger we spoke about come in?
Broken Perceptions
We can immediately see that to feel anger, we must abandon the view that all is Love. That there is more than one government, that of divine Love.
We may say divine Love and all Its qualities are all that exist, but we don’t experience it.
The problem is that our state of mind perception is not in agreement with our point of view perception.
How do we fix this disharmony?
Here’s one solution.
Face And Replace It
Face the broken perception.
Uncover the lie it is stating and replace it with what is true.
Yes, it’s that simple.
Returning to our example of anger at someone with whom we disagree.
We face the fact that we disagree.
Then, we replace it with an unbroken perception.
The replacement part could go something like this:
“Since all that I see and know is filled up with Love, and a visible representation of Love, then there is no place for this anything but Love in my thinking and experience.
Because we are all one in this Love, there is no other person with whom I can be angry.
It’s a misperception on my part, and I willingly give it up in order to experience the harmony of Love’s all presence.”
Everything Shifts
As this unbroken perception replaces the broken one, what we experience in our world shifts.
“What we perceive as reality magnifies,” so a broken perception produces a broken experience.
A whole perception produces a whole experience without pain and judgment because there is no place for pain or judgment in infinite Love.
We can see how a broken perception touching any part of our life would be painful, and the unbroken perception of the Principle of Love in action would dissolve that pain.
Broken Perceptions Are Deliberately Contagious
Unlike broken fingers, broken perceptions are deliberately contagious.
It is essential to know this so that we stop spreading them.
Stop making them more real and giving them more power by reacting.
Instead, respond.
Respond with your unbroken perception of what is Reality. Respond with action based on the qualities of divine Love.
We’ll know when our perception is complete and one in harmony because our life experiences will be harmonious and joyful.
We will feel loved ourselves, and we will experience an unconditional love for everyone else.
This is surely worth the effort it takes to heal a broken perception.
Imagine the result if everyone did so.
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