Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time.
In this episode of Shifting Stories listen to Chapter Two in Living in Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception. And because it is a long chapter, this is part three.
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Chapter Two: Part Three: How Ruts Work®
Ruts, a.k.a. paradigms, filter information. They provide evidence to us that tell us this is how life is, so don’t bother asking for more. Or they prove to us that we were always right, so therefore we have nothing more to learn. When we say, “This is who I am,” we are stating our paradigm.
A paradigm operates in much the same way as a computer file. The computer will feed back anything that has been put into it. It cannot receive, let alone understand, any information that does not fit exactly within parameters. When we go to the memory banks and pull up the file called “father,” for example, we will see on the screen everything we have told the computer about father, nothing more.
The most important function of a paradigm is to act as a filter. Every bit of information that comes to us is filtered through our paradigm. Only the information that fits into what is defined by the paradigm (such as home, country, spouse, parent) comes through. We never know about most information available to us because the paradigm says “no.”
Most of the time, our paradigm does not allow us the chance to make a decision about what we think we want to know. However, if the paradigm called “me” is broad enough to let the information reach a decision level, we will still “consciously” filter according to our idea of who and what we are and who we are capable of being.
We will say “no” to anything that does not fit our belief system. If there is any other reality available to us, we are effectively kept from knowing it.
At this point, we are the paradigm.
Sometimes we demand more. We attempt to change our mind, or change the paradigm. To change we agree to enlarge or Shift our point of view. How do we do that?
Going back to the example of the computer file “father:” If we want a larger picture of “father” we must supply the computer with more information. We cannot go to the computer to get that information, as it can only tell us what we already know. Once we gather additional information from other sources and add it to the database, the file (paradigm) is expanded.
For example, most of us have experienced the expanding or shifting of a paradigm when we decide to buy a car. Have you ever noticed that as soon as you begin to think about a certain kind of car you see them everywhere? What happened? Did the company begin to manufacture more of these cars and somehow they magically arrived on the streets just for us to see? Obviously they were already there. We just expanded our paradigm—our point of view—enough to see them. This was a Shift in thought.
….The lies our senses tell….
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BECA LEWIS coaches, teaches, writes blogs and books, plays with art, and is addicted to reading. She lives in Ohio with her husband and has kids and grandkids scattered across the country.
