Reality is Malleable “The world is as you believe it to be.” This is a belief held by many but lived by few. In life, people can only have so much control. Every action taken has an equal and opposite reaction. What most don’t realize, however, is that a person’s thoughts and beliefs can change how an event goes down, or even bend reality. In day to day life, I try to live by this philosophy. I look at things from different angles in order to understand the personal reality another has crafted for themselves. I pay attention to my attitude toward things, as being positive or negative can legitimately change things. The final thing I attempt to change is confidence in myself and in others. My philosophy is knowing that beliefs can change your …show more content…
As a person goes about their lives, they have expectations of how things should happen. Those can be known as fundamental beliefs. A large player in these beliefs is someone’s perspective. When something occurs, there is usually someone around to see it. Depending on who saw it, the retelling of the event could be completely wrong. While one person sees some details and forgets others, someone else might notice what the other missed. Both parties would feel that they are correct, so according to their accounts, they have witnessed the same thing, but in their own personal realities. For them, the world has been altered from its natural course. Their beliefs changed that. One more way that perception can change reality is known simply as The Observer Effect. It is a scientific phenomenon that was studied in the 1990’s. Scientists noticed that by observing things, they could change the outcome of an experiment. All they had to do is look at it or hook a sensor up to it. Somehow the electrons that they were studying behaved differently when not being observed. This effect can be applied to our lives. When we are observing things, an event may change completely. Because of this observer effect, we can literally shape
middle of paper ... ... After reading this text, I saw the importance of being open to other worldviews. As a counselor, I will be coming in contact with people from all different walks of life. If a client comes to see me, I cannot expect them to have the same perspective as I do.
A phenomenologist, David Abram, in his book The Spell of the Sensuous, discusses that human is “inter-subjective.” (Abram, 36) Phenomenology is a method of getting to truth through observing how phenomena present themselves to the senses and to the mind, as Abram defines, “phenomenology would seek not to explain the world, but to describe as closely as possible the way the world makes itself evident to awareness, the way things first arise in our direct, sensorial experience.” (Abram, 35) Phenomenology poses the terms inter-subjectivity to describe what is real. Subjectivity refers to the essence of the “I”—first-person perspective. Inter-subjectivity is the perspective developed between, called a kind of “We-ness”. In phenomenology, reality is a collective construction—it is not subjective to the individual or is objectively determined by things, but rather it is inter-subjective.
We adopt a larger view of the world and its inhabitants, by realizing that there is much, much more than what meets the eye.
Everyone on the planet does not experience the same things. They come from different countries, racial and ethnic groups, socio-economic statuses, environments, and many other factors that influence how a person is raised and grows throughout life. Therefore, everyone perceives reality in different ways. Our beliefs and expectations about reality the world can also influence how we experience reality. According to Psychology Today, there are many things that people do that distort reality. For example, the way that people focus their attention can alter their perceptions. When a person has a belief they often only look for evidence that supports their belief and disregard evidence that contradicts their belief. This is called conformation bias. People see things as they want to see them, even if there is evidence to discredit their beliefs. One way for a person to avoid conformation bias is to examine evidence that does not support their belief instead of just ignoring it. This can make a person view the world around them more objectively. Another thing that people do that distorts their reality is that they reconstruct their memories. People often cannot fully remember their memories. These
As human beings, our perception and viewpoints of the world are inclined to change as we develop as a society.We are easily influenced by each other, and learn to adapt to our surroundings
What we see in some things can based on our past experiences and things we’vewe have seen before. If you ever look at the clouds during the day and try to decide what you see and then ask someone else what they see it’sit is about very little chance that everyone will see the same thing. This is what I think of
Sometimes, what we see and remember is not always accurate or real. For instance, Gould talked about a trip that he took to the Devils tower when he was fifteen, he remember that he can see the Devils tower from afar and as he approaches it, it rises and gets bigger. However, about thirty years later, Gould went back to see the Devils tower with his family, he wanted to show them the awesome view of the Devils tower when it rises as they approach closer to it, but when they got there everything was different from what he remembered. Then he found out that the Devils tower that he saw when he was younger wasn’t really...
Having an impact on an individual’s life is their worldview. A worldview influences your thoughts and . This is their point of view and how they interpret and relate to the world. It shapes their interactions and behaviors to those around them (Waddell, 2014). One key element to an individual’s worldview relates to ethics. These may be shaped by what someone believes and what they have experienced while growing up. Ethics is an individual’s morals, their sense of what is right and what is wrong (Hiles & Smith, 2014).
I’m not going to pretend to know what reality is, but I know what I think it is, and what I think it should be. Reality should be what each and every one of us wants it to be. There should be no duplicate realities, just like there are no two snowflakes the same. What my reality is should never be the same as what your reality is. For each person has different, albeit special, beliefs. And these beliefs should be what, over the years, shape our reality to what it is. Not what somebody else says is going on, not what everyone else is doing, but what our heart says is real. It should not make a difference in my reality that some guy is running down the street naked. For that one man running down the street will never be able to do anything good for me, or bad against me. Even if a car hits that man my life should not change in anyway. What is in my heart is there, has always been there, and will always be there to hold my reality steadfast.
... very often in the movie “Fight Club” as the main character struggles with “What is Real?”. The main character shapes his thoughts unconsciously so that he believes in something that is real to him but not the world. In other words, our minds determine what is personally real.
I find this to be a more simple and basic understanding when we talk about how life affects us on a day-to-day basis. It is assumptions based on our own reality. When I think about defining a worldview; that would be the first thing that would come to my mind, the reality of my life and everything going on in it and how I view it. In thinking on the similarities of the two views they both talk about the reality of life and how we view it. Everyone’s reality however may differ slightly due to the differing circumstances in their lives. For instance someone living in a poorer than poor area of India is going to have a much more different worldview than say someone raised in say Beverly Hills California, raised in a home with much
The way people decide to see the world will affect where they go, and how they will make decisions. A good example of this is: someone who sees the world as a wonderful place will most likely want to travel, and experience life, but someone who sees the world as a scary place will most likely stay in the house. The reason why two people can be such opposites is because one might gear their attention to the scary things while the other decides to look at the wonderful things. How they decide to perceive those experiences or events might affect their decisions as well. So really, when looking at it, perception can make or break someone. Ultimately, perception will represent how someone chooses to see the world, and how they choose to live their
The knowledge that individuals make reference in the sphere of everyday life is dominated by a kind of thinking ( natural attitude ) capable of suspending the doubt that this reality is something different from what you see .
Each day, people wake up in their beds to find things exactly as they left it. The sky's still blue, the leaves are still green, and the pile of dirty laundry still sits at the bottom of their bed. This world of known qualities, filled with objects we consider to be real, is often referred to as reality. A simplistic definition of the word reality would be “the state or quality of having existence or substance” (Definition). But what exactly does this mean? For example, a world where everything that must be felt, seen, tasted, or heard in order to be considered “real”, does not account for the molecules that dance under our nose or the germs on our fingers. Therefore, when one takes a closer examination of the meanings of the words real, reality,
The power of our mind comes not from its ability to observe, but its ability to apply these observations to create assumptions about the world around us. In doing so our mind goes beyond the information given, our sensory information, and uses these assumptions to respond in an appropriate manner. For our purposes an assumption is any belief or prediction we have about an object or situation that could not be ascertained solely from the information given to us by our senses and is based on prior experiences with the purpose of giving us reliable information to use. Our mind makes assumptions because without doing so it would need to treat every event as a new problem to be solved, when one’s mind finally did come to the solution, it would likely be one it had come to innumerable times before. As such, assumptions tend to be helpful shortcuts that allow us to use less processing power.