010_What's Up With Your Perception?

In this episode, we talk about choosing how we want to perceive what's happening from a basic premise, like from love or fear, acceptance or resistance, curiosity, or obligation. 
Our perception really determines everything, doesn't it? We give everything all the meaning it has for us. Life is happening, constantly, much over which we have no control whatsoever. 
How we chose to see a situation determines its impact for us more than the particular situation. We can make choices and decide on situations and circumstances that we believe, for a variety of reasons, are in our best interest, but what makes it yummy is totally choosing in from a place of freedom. This ignites the curiosity and enthusiasm fire within us.  The true difference has to do with being true to ourselves. Knowing our own core values. Like for us, freedom is crucial to our well-being. 
Know thy Self, first and foremost. Knowing the way we want to experience ourselves prior to engaging a situation lets us stay in alignment with our true nature. 
Even in situations that are necessary for our survival, like a job, where we might prefer to do something else, we can go within first and find the thing we love about making this choice for ourselves, instead of the narrative our programing might be telling us. 
Anytime we're feeling like a victim of circumstance, that's an indicator that we're identified with the narrative. However, if we pause for a minute and notice what's going on, we can see that we're not the voice telling us this story of unfairness or whatever. We're the one noticing. So now we have distance from the voice telling us who we are in the situation, so we can feel into our center to the peace and love of ourselves,
Now we can change our mind and see the situation differently -- find a yummy way to look at it where we can be our true self and shine our light into this previously dark interpretation. Check it out and just see the entire situation shift because you do.
Have a yummy week!