do you think clearly
Jan. 5th 12:47 PM 2011
Observation is your mental capacity to clearly witness present events. When you observe something, you bring it into your awareness and take it in. You do this best when you can âget out of the wayâ so you allow âthe otherâ to present itself to you fully. You minimize your interpretation and attempt to see it âas it is.â
To the extent that you can do this, you can say that you have more clear and accurate observations. This is important because itâs easy to make things up, project them onto the things youâre perceiving, and think that this is âthe way things are.â This is a tremendous source of human conflict. When you think you see things âas they areâ and donât realize that you are filtering and interpreting them, you are likely to conflict with others about the ârightâ way to see things.
Some good questions to guide clearer observation are: Can you observe what is before you as if for the first time? Can you see it with fresh eyes? Can you observe something without wanting it to be one way or another? Can you allow what you observe to affect you more than you affect it? Are others able to see what you see?
This is the beginning of clearer thinking