The Map is Not the Territory

The map is not the territory – there is always more choice in the real world than in ones mental maps of reality.

What ever you believe to be real is real for you in your map of reality. There is a tremendous amount of information coming into your awareness at any one time. In order to deal with all that information, you filter it through your five senses and your internal processes. This then makes up your experience – your reality.

For example, you and a friend may sit together and watch the same movie and yet each of you will have your own individual experience of the movie. Some part of that movie may mean more to you than it does to your friend.

I especially like this presupposition because it helps me to remember that what you experience is always different than what I experience and that if we agree to accept that other options are available then there can always be a basis for agreement.

It also reminds me that what ever limitation I am experiencing are not reality, rather they are a byproduct of the thinking I am engaged in at the moment.

BE Amazing,

-Lane