Self-Authoring your perception of Reality

Your perception of reality determines your experience.  

Mainstream education, values and media create a limited view of reality that you are invited to see the world through.  Like a photographic viewfinder, your perception is governed by the frame you perceive through.  When you expand your viewfinder to perceive more of the landscape, you see a greater tapestry of existence.  This expands your perception of what might be possible.

While you may be primarily focused on one thread (your life), by seeing more of the tapestry in which your thread is woven, you’ll learn to think systemically – you’ll see the interconnectedness and relationship of all the threads to each other and be more mindful about what you are creating with your thoughts, words, and actions.

The world lays a path for us based on the life and level of privilege we are born into, our upbringing, environment, influences, and societal expectations.

In a healthy social system that seeks to draw out the gifts of all people, these pathways may bring fulfilment and wholeness. Yet for most of us, our society is not healthy. Our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our home planet are not in balance.

Therefore, following the scripts set out for us often leads towards conformity with dysfunction and ill health, generating further ill health and dysfunction in our own lives and the lives of others.

“The suppression of inner patterns in favour of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.”  

Anais Nin

As easy as it may seem to follow the scripts handed to us – if we don’t self-author our perception and see beyond prescribed limits, we risk wasting the opportunity of our precious human life. In doing so we contribute to unnecessary suffering, not to evolution.

How to self-author your perception of reality.

• Be highly sceptical of everything you are taught particularly if believed by the masses – make sure you keep a sense of humour so your scepticism doesn’t drive you to madness 😉
• Hold yourself lightly.  Be highly suspicious of your beliefs and assumptions about yourself and life.  As a human – you see through a limited reality – therefore your beliefs are likely to be partial at best and potentially highly untrue.  Holding yourself, your assumptions and your opinions lightly will also help to generate more positive relationships with others.
• Seek out contrary data.  Seek to disprove or expand your beliefs and assumptions.
• Be a both/and thinker rather than an either/or thinker.
• Meditate.  Learn to still the mind and open the heart.
• Tap into what is uniquely you.  Nourish it.
• Expand your consciousness with new experiences and through conversations with diverse people.

By transforming your own identity and consciousness you open new worlds.  Self-perception is critical.

“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are” 

Anais Nin/The Talmud

Generative Questions to explore and expand your self-perception.

• How do you see yourself and how do you speak to yourself?  Your self-talk will reveal what you believe about yourself.  Listen to it.
• As you observe your thoughts – what thought patterns are on repeat?
• What emotions or feelings are prescribed to these thought forms?
• Where did you absorb these thought patterns from? How are you reinforcing them or making them true?
• What new thought patterns would liberate you to be more of your whole, healthy self?

Self-authoring individuals do not regard themselves as a victim of circumstance but as a player – with the inner power to influence their world and their experience of it.  By developing greater self-authorship, you’ll find ways to co-create a healthier life experience for yourself and those around you.

At The Academy, we are called to co-create a new story of self for ourselves and for the world.  One that sets ourselves and future generations up to access and express inner genius and live from a deeply internalised inner authority.

 “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

Rudyard Kipling 

Recommendations for further reading

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson

An exploration of how the human mind works and how to break free of limiting perception.

Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

Invites you into an Indigenous worldview.

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey

Helps you to understand limiting beliefs and worldviews and how they keep you stuck. This book is also excellent preparation for the Overcoming Immunity to Change workshop in August.

Have you read Leadership for the New Millennium yet? It has been designed to help you self-author your perception of reality. The book is available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook (narrated by me) and you can grab it on Spotify.

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Our consciousness is vaster than we could imagine – why experience life in a small room when a whole universe is available for exploration?

How will you Self-Author your perception of reality today? Join The New Millennium Leader Academy to discover the most effective and transformative approaches, methods and insights that can help you to self-realise and live your truth and potential.

It has been so much fun exploring Self-Authoring your perception of Reality with you. Send your thoughts or reflections to alison@alisoncameron.com.