We all experience life through a different lens or filter that we call our perspective. We look at the same tree and we assume we both perceive the tree in the exact same way. But how do you know the other person looks at the tree the same way you do? You don’t! We might see the same shapes and colors, but we might perceive the tree entirely different. And neither view is right or wrong. In general, we live very similar lives, we work, we eat, we sleep, we look at the same sky every day and still we perceive life differently.
The same thing goes for our past experiences. The pain we are experiencing in our day-to-day lives is not because of the actual experience of what happened but because of the meaning we gave to the experience. It’s an interpretation of the experience that we choose inside ourselves. And so, two people may experience the same event but interpret it differently.
For example, you may have a sibling who grew up in the same family, in the same house and went to the same school as you did. And you and your sibling become entirely different people with different values, opinions and different views. But the question here is, what makes up these differences? What makes a person perceive the same experience differently? Why do we choose a different meaning to our experiences? What is the drive force behind the meanings we choose?
This topic is open to suggestions, but here are a few reasons why we each individually choose a different meaning to our experiences. We can approach this from two different angles, namely the physical and the non-physical.
Interpretation through our physical experiences
Most of us know (or hopefully will became aware of as they grow older) how big the influence of our parents and society is on the way that we see the world. Our upbringing and the thoughts we choose are very programmed by the family we grow up in, our society and religion/culture.
Your family chooses to belief in something and pass it on for generations whether it is actual universal truth or not. It’s programmed into the previous generations and they choose to belief this specific religion (beliefs) or social behavior. This social behavior is actually a thought that has been repeated so often (some even for centuries) that is passed on to the next generation (which is you) and it became a way of how you do life. Now you behave according to those social values and choose thoughts that are most familiar to you.
This is an important component of the meanings that you give to your experiences in life and how you see the world. But each individual has to become aware of the beliefs they grew up with and start questioning them. You can always use the question: what am I making this experience mean? Or what am I making this mean about myself?
Another big component to the interpretations that we make in our lives is the actual life experiences that we have. The good and the bad experiences. Based on what you actually went through growing up is shaping how you perceive the world. Our trauma influences the meaning that we assign to our experiences. We adapt to our environment and create thought patterns that our family accepts to keep us safe and survive. These psychological adaptations that we created in the past influences the thoughts that we think and the decisions that we make in our day-to-day life now.
Or the trauma that you have experienced is a mirror for your parents. And the thought patterns that are out of alignment in your family are passed on to you, unless you change them! It is said that if you repeat the same thought patterns as your parents that you may create that same illness or problems that they have because you are thinking the same thoughts as your parents.
Repeating a thought over and over again (which is out of alignment of a higher truth of yourself) is creating an energetic blockage which basically compresses the stream of your life force energy that influences your health. When this thought pattern isn’t resolved, that energetic pattern stays and your body will try to find a way to establish balance by creating a specific illness. This also true for someone who has been adopted and it explains why they have the same disease as their caregivers while not from the same bloodline. Either way, all these things can influence the meanings you assign to life.
Interpretation through the non-physical
Then the non-physical components. We give an experience a specific meaning based on a few subconscious things. It can be our ancestral line which makes us choose a thought that has been repeated intergenerationally. For example, you might choose the thought ‘money is hard to get’ more likely if your lineage has more out of alignment (negative) beliefs around abundance. But another person does not choose that belief because it’s not a thought that has been repeated often in this lineage. It’s not a thought pattern that is familiar to the person.
Another reason for choosing a specific meaning is based on our own past lives and even pre-birth intentions. What you have experienced in the past and the lessons you have learnt may actually have an effect on the thoughts you choose and decisions that you make in this life. You may also have pre-birth intentions that you are unware of that makes you go through specific lessons in the physical life experience. You may experience a health issue that teaches something that you intended to learn before coming here. And this information is still open to suggestion. Do you think past lives experiences and pre-birth intentions is one of the reasons why you choose the thoughts that you choose? Do you even belief in pre-birth intentions?
Astrology might also be influencing us subconsciously in what thoughts we choose and what decisions we make based on the influence of the planets. Do you even belief astrology influences your choices and life experience? What if you belief astrology is affecting your decisions, is that going to determine how you perceive the world? And what if you don’t belief in astrology and you don’t see any reason why the planets would be able to influence what you think and experience. Is that belief going to determine what you experience in your life and what not?
Same question with our personality. What determines our personality? What makes us, us? What makes one person come across soft and gentle and what makes another person hard and bitter? What makes someone value one thing above the other? Is it our life experiences and what we identify with? Is it astrology, past lives or our upbringing that influences our behaviors?
Is it the media (mind control) that influences our society and the choices everyone individually makes? One-person beliefs the earth is round and another person believes it’s flat, another person believes the earth is a hologram and neither is true. But did you choose that belief or were you influenced by the media?
Is the answer complex or very simple?
We all chose to experience a separate identity and be a fractal of the whole by incarnating on this planet. (And we have been in an incarnation loop for many, many years). But then the choice is ours to experience this reality and mold it and change it into something that we want to experience. But it isn’t as easy to create a different experience as we like it to be. If it was easy we would ALL already live the life that we individually desire.
All of the above mentioned has an influence on the thoughts that you choose and so the meaning you give to your life experiences. There may even be more components to this, like for example your physical health. Do the processes in your body influence the thoughts that you come up with or not? That’s up to you to question.
The answer to this topic is truly more complex if we think about what makes up someone’s thoughts, interpretations, life choices, life experiences and their personality. And at the same time, it’s simple…since we can choose our thoughts with our free will and that is what creates the meaning we give to things in our lives.
Meaning doesn’t really exist as a concept it’s an interpretation. It’s the thoughts that you choose to think and it’s the story that you choose to belief. You have free will to think what you want, but you have to choose what you want to belief in and what not. And your thoughts are not bound to time or space. They are limitless and you can choose to change your thoughts in a second which then changes the meaning that you give to things in your life.
Until next time.
With Love, Naomi
P.s. another blog that goes really well with this topic is ‘Why thoughts and Emotions are everthing in life and why you want to MASTER them!’
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