| "Nothing has meaning other than the meaning we | | | | "projection." |
| give it." You may have heard this before or some | | | | Application of Insight in Daily Life |
| variation of it. | | | | When I would go through all the self-protection |
| The essence of this statement is "what we see is | | | | "cloak-and-dagger" routine, I used to get angry with |
| that which we project." You see we can't see that | | | | myself and still to this day if I see even the slightest |
| which didn't at one point reside within. | | | | remnants of it, the ordeal actually sickens me. Why? |
| Background Rationale for the Insight | | | | Because of the meaning I give all this behavior and |
| Deepak Chopra use to site the following research, | | | | the feelings associated with it...that being I was a |
| which says it so nicely. There was a group of cats | | | | "battered woman." I'm "protecting myself from the |
| who where placed, from birth, in a room with | | | | potential onslaught of another." |
| horizontal lines covering the walls ...all four walls of this | | | | Yet, when I take an article that is on my MAC and |
| room. The cats sensory neurons assimilated horizontal | | | | email it to myself so I may pick it up on my PC |
| lines. Period. | | | | where I do all of my web design, I don't get that |
| Subsequent to this development, the cats were | | | | sickish, angry, pathetic feeling. |
| placed in another room in which there where chairs | | | | Oh yea, it might be a hassle. But it's how I've learned |
| situated about. And the cats walked right into the | | | | to adapt to spyware, adaware and computer viruses. |
| legs of the chairs. They couldn't see the vertical lines | | | | I made a decision over a year ago that I would |
| as this neurosensory path had not been established | | | | separate my work product from the Internet. |
| within them. | | | | And my mindset is occasionally: this is a hassle, but |
| We see that which is already within us. That's all we | | | | never that "yuckie" feeling--even though I'm |
| can see. The reason we see what we see is | | | | "protecting myself from the potential onslaught of |
| because it is indeed within! | | | | another." |
| If the meaning we give something truly originates | | | | Bottom Line Best Nugget of Wisdom |
| from within, our experience will drive the way we | | | | Nothing has meaning other than the meaning we give |
| process the world, how we take it in....the meaning | | | | it. Think about it. Now the best part of this insight is |
| we give it. This is the essence of "psychological | | | | that we get to choose our thoughts. |