You don't see reality directly.
You see your brain's prediction of reality,..
...a statistical best guess built from everything you've experienced, learned, and inherited from the people around you.
This is adaptive when you're facing an actual threat.
It becomes a disadvantage when you forget you're running a model at all...
... and react to the present based more on your history than on what's happening now.
The point is not to eliminate your models.
(You can't. and you wouldn't want to. )
The point (as Donella Meadows and other Systems Thinkers have suggested) is to recognize that you have them.
It's about Awareness as a first element of change.
Once you can see you're operating from a model, a different set of questions can become available to you:
Is this model accurate?
Is it serving me?
What am I missing?
Even a flash of that curiosity about your own seeing is a launching point.
That single move is how we begin to update the algorithms that shape how we move through the world.
And it scales.
Leaders and members of society who do this have a chance of contributing to the collective sense of what's possible for everyone they influence.
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As Eckhart Tolle puts it: "Awareness is the greatest agent for change"
(from A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose).
Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene talks about this in terms of Conscious Access (in his book, Consciousness and the Brain - one of my favorite books):
"conscious access" takes information away from our automated, unconscious "inner zombie" circuits and broadcasts it globally across the prefrontal cortex. This global broadcast allows us to override habits, make deliberate decisions, and execute flexible changes in behavior
We begin with Awareness.
We begin with Awareness of our own Deep, Inner Intelligence.
And we begin with understanding that Our Nervous System is Not Ours Alone...
... we are vibrational beings, transmitting and detecting signals and frequencies from our own and others' nervous systems.. at all times...
whether we are aware of it or not.
Learning about our Vibrational Nature and these neurpo-physiological frequencies can help us access more Awareness, Attunement and Adaptative iterations for accessing higher levels of wellbeing and flourishing.
I explore this further in this article.
Wishing you wonderful awareness of your own and others' Intelligence..
Stefanie
