The Power of Illusion
- Nov 27, 2017
- 2 min read
There are things out there that I would swear are real. I look at them on a Monday morning and the week ahead looks long, I feel tired, the work in front of me looks insurmountable. The ideas I had on a Sunday seem near impossible and I am convinced of all the above. If you were to link me up to a lie detector I would pass on every count because every part of me feels these things are true.
So why is it that by lunchtime that very same day, things begin to look different. The week is off to a flying start, I am ahead on my list of jobs to do that day, I feel energized and light hearted and the ideas I’ve had not only seem possible but also very close to fruition.
What exactly occurred from 8am – midday? No lobotomy, yet my world feels and looks totally different and this kaleidoscope of feelings will spin and turn, change colour and shape a few more hundred times that day and with them my world will change too along with everything in it.
And that is the illusion. We have a thought, feel it in every part of us and believe it to be true. Until that thought changes shape and flavour and with it we feel different again only to be duped by this new feeling until the next one appears. We are constantly feeling our own thinking and it is constantly changing unless we focus so much on it that we make it a longer standing feeling for longer periods of time.
Were we to let each thought come and go without interference, we would feel an array of emotions without fearing or rejoicing as though each one were true. None of them are. They are ephemeral passing’s of energy within us and they are always shifting and changing and our worlds change with them. The illusion is that the thoughts and feelings aren’t real we just experience them as though they are. I am not really a loser at 8am and a great success at midday, I am underneath all the thoughts and noise and failures and successes, but I have to be aware that I am witnessing a changing kaleidoscope and not some truth about me and my world. I can stop being so convinced that everything I think and feel is true.
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