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What Reality Field are You Creating?
How to be a bridge in these difficult times
For most of human history, people have tended to congregate with others with similar physical characteristics, belief systems and cultural norms. This activates some type of mechanism in our instinctual brains — what’s familiar also feels safe.
However, now more than ever (due primarily to the world-wide-web), we find ourselves regularly interacting with those whose ways of seeing the world differs greatly from our own. We find ourselves in a complexity crisis, as this is the first time we’ve been together as a global society.
Like a family reunion for our planet, where you only know a few of your relatives in the large crowd, so you begin with what you hope is innocuous small talk. Sometimes the topic is fine, or it could suddenly bring up triggers.
Author, coach and teacher Alan Seale writes in his book, Creating a World that Works, about the phenomenon of the reality fields we create and re-create every day. A reality field is the sum of our thoughts, emotions and beliefs about a specific subject, person or occurrence. What we focus on, becomes the truth, for us in that moment.
Our reality fields can easily become fixed or even rigid, especially when we’re faced with too much newness. It feels better to…
