I have often grappled with the concept of misperception. I always feel like I’ve done something wrong! In the Spiritual sense, I guess I have, but I don’t like to do “wrong,” so it’s an uncomfortable place for me to be.
This morning, I found a different way to look at the idea of person, place and thing. It isn’t comfortable, but it’s less uncomfortable than walking around feeling like my old view of “sinner.”
We see things as person, place, and thing in the human view because that’s the way we can understand it. Remember Bruce Almighty? He had a heckuva time keeping up with that omnipresent thing!
Well, here’s how I framed it so my human point of view could understand it a little better.
Example – take the quality of Order. I give up the old habit of disorder, and Choose Order. Which reflects itself through me as being orderly, neat, clear in my choice of words and communication, whatever. Perhaps it’s another person who has the habit of disorder that shows me my old habit of disorder.
As I focus on Order, that “person” starts to be more orderly, because that “person” is only displaying what I think of him or her, and I think of him or her as Order.
Perhaps that person does NOT start reflecting Order to me. That person gets angry and leaves.
Either way, my point of view starts to reflect Order rather than disorder.
Am I happy that the “person” started to show Order? Yes, thrilled!
Did I make that “person” clean up his or her act? Absolutely not.
Am I unhappy that the “person” got angry and left? Yes, I’m sure I am, because I Love that person (doesn’t matter whether I know them or not, in my Spiritual sense, I know only Love.)
However, I must let them go, if that’s what they choose to do. The quality of Order is natural and habitual and Loving in my Life. And I know that I am not alone as a result of them leaving. The only thing that left was the perception of disorder.
Made it a little easier to understand the perception/misperception concept, and the idea of detaching from the outcome.
Hope it helps you, too!