When we perceive something, it is done with our 5 senses: sight, hear, smell, touch and taste. This is put through our mind. So we come up with a mix of those sensed perceptions. To change a perception, we can add filters to our senses (e.g. spectacles, hearing aid, thick gloves etc,.) that will instantly change reality for the person sensing it. sssHowever, when we have to deal with truth, it becomes a whole different matter totally. You can’t really change the truth without making it into a whole new truth altogether.
Take for example an orange. The truth is that an orange is an orange. With perception, if you’re wearing “green glasses”, an orange will appear green. In reality, the orange is not green, but orange still. But if you decide to paint the orange green, then the truth is that the orange is green. The same happens when, for example, trees falls and know one listens, does it still makes a sound? Of course it makes a sound, I say but, how do I know, how can I be so sure if I didn’t hear it, but common sense tell me that it, indeed, make a sound, but still HOW CAN I THAT SURE IF I DIDN’T HEAR IT? Sometimes you just have to rely on perception to believe in something.
For example, in motivation, perhaps one of the most documented things about perception in the self-help industry is the way self-perceptions (the perception of the self,) tend to be so limiting. One of the most famous stories on self-limiting perceptions is the story of Roger Bannister, the man of the four-minute mile. For years, the belief was that running a mile in four minutes was physically impossible. No one could ever do it. However, it was a wrong statement. In 1954, Bannister broke that long held belief with a time of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds — the world was stunned. Now, high-school students break that record for fun (gifted and athletic ones).
So, for living, I would say that our perception of reality is infinitely more important than reality itself. It isn’t that reality is not important, since reality is what we base our perceptions on, but that our senses are the ones that can make reality real. When we don’t believe in something, how can it be real? Until we start believing like we can, we can’t.
