What Are You Looking At?
Tim and I are in our car. He’s driving. I’m gazing out the passenger side window.
Tim says, “Is he any good?”
“What?” I ask.
I have no idea what he’s talking about. We haven’t been having a conversation. We’ve been riding in silence.
“Is he any good?” Tim repeats as if hearing the question again will clear it up for me.
“Is who any good?”
“Him,” Tim waves a hand toward the windshield.
“What? Who?” I look directly in front of the car for some invisible “him” I’m supposed to evaluate.
“The sign.” Tim waves a hand toward the windshield again.
My gaze extends further ahead. I see a banner hanging across the road. It announces Clint Black’s upcoming performance at a nearby casino.
“Clint Black?” I ask.
Tim nods.
I give him my opinion of Clint Black, for what it’s worth, and I ask him what made him think I would have any idea what he was talking about. He says, “I figured you were looking at what I was looking at.”
DA DUM! Did you hear that big orchestral crescendo that denotes something important?
Their Experience Is Not Your Experience
Just as I’m not usually looking where Tim is looking, I am not interpreting the world around me the way he is or the way anyone else is for that matter.
So why would I act like I AM interpreting the world the same way as everyone else? Why would I act like what is there to be seen is a FACT that I must deal with?
Most of us base our actions and decisions on a “reality” that others have created. We react to a world that we think is REAL when in fact it is just a collection of interpretations generated by millions of different vibrational frequencies, i.e. people focusing their thoughts.
Here’s the way Abraham-Hicks explains it:
“In this tangible, physical world, where you can see and smell and hear and taste and touch, your physical senses are literally your interpreters of vibrations. And so, the world you perceive is about your sensors that are interpreting it from vibration to perception.
”When you look at your television, a similar thing is taking place: A mechanism has projected and translated, and now you are using other physical human sensors to further translate. You don’t look at your television and assume that somehow those people are really in that little box. You know that the screen, or the process, is giving you an interpreted version of omething. And everything in your world is that.
“It’s hard for you to get a sense of that, because you are surrounded with so many other interpreters who are born with similar sensors or senses to yours.
“And so, when we say to you, what you see with your eyes is an interpretation of vibration, what you feel with your fingertips, what you hear with your ears, what you smell with your nose, all that you are experiencing is vibrational interpretation, you say (because so many of you are having a similar experience) ‘Well, this interpretation of vibration is reality.’ And we say, the reason you are calling it reality is because so many others are agreeing with you, in general terms, about the reality you are perceiving. But, in truth, you are all interpreting uniquely from your perspective.
“We approach your physical experience in a rather unusual way because once you understand that you are vibrational interpreters, then you can deliberately take it further. Then you can go beyond your physical senses, which are interpreting vibration by utilizing your emotional basis, which is a further interpretation of more defined, intricate interpreting. Your emotions tell you more subtle vibrations.”
In other words, since nothing we’re experiencing with our physical senses is as set as we think it is (and we think it’s set because everyone else is acting as if it is), we can choose to see our world with no reference to what others would call reality. We can totally ignore what others are perceiving.
AND we can ignore what our physical selves are experiencing.
We do not have to put our focus on what our physical senses are telling us. Our physical senses may be staring right at a Clint Black banner, but our vibrational focus, translated to us through our emotions, can be happily looking out another window at a vista that is more interesting or pleasing to us, a vista that is more in line with what we would like to create in our world.
I have spent far too much time in the last few years letting my physical self direct my gaze toward a reality created by my past alignment and by others’ alignment. When I had my “Clint Black Banner Moment,” I understood with utter clarity that I can and in fact MUST not only choose where I want to put my attention but also stick with my choice no matter what others want to point out to me.
We don’t live in a simple world where we all perceive the same things. We live in a vibrational world that we can each interpret differently. Call it an alternate reality or a vision or a want—it’s really simply truth. Each of us can experience the truth of what our desires have created by using our emotions to direct us toward the true reality—the one in which our nonphysical already resides.
I’m grateful today for Tim’s out of context question. It showed me how silly it is to let a physical perception dictate our vibrational reality.
And so, is Clint Black any good?
I don’t really care.
All I care about is that reality is good … when we decide that it is.
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Tags: Abraham, Abraham-Hicks, Alignment, Vibration, vibrational frequency
August 18th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
That was a great “aha” moment you had, thanks to Tim and Clint Black. (I don’t know who Clint Black is, but I’ll think of him as a hybrid of Clint Eastwood and Jack Black.)
Kudos to you, Ande, for finding meaningful messages in everyday experiences.
We certainly do all have our unique perspectives. Last night, I thoroughly enjoyed a local LOA meeting only to discover today that the facilitator found it awful and quit. It was a reminder to me of how much we all view things differently — sometimes dramatically differently. Different folks/different strokes, but it feels so good to make a habit of seeing the “good.”
August 18th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I love the Eastwood/Jack Black hybrid. That would be fun.
Clint Black is a country singer. For me, the reminder that we see things so differently has helped me divide myself into two people–one who might see what is and one who is happily focusing on what feels good.
August 19th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Deliberate creating is always about who we are agreeing to be, and never about this or that thing that we may be wanting. Its all Identity.