Perception and Wellness
Perception has a powerful impact on your entire life, including overall health and wellness. Perception shapes the way you think and creates your outlook on life. An expansive, positive outlook will allow you to function with greater ease and less stress. A limited, narrow outlook creates more stress and can impact your health and wellness in a negative way.

What you see in any situation or circumstance is quite often determined by things beyond your control: your circumstance, the influence of others, or the patterns you inherited from parents and grandparents. All these factors shape your ability to perceive the world.

But everyone has blind spots, things we just don’t see because we lack necessary information. That’s why people can share one experience and come away with multiple reports or attitudes about what happened. Some people will report the glass as “half-full” while others report the same glass as “half-empty.”

Regardless of how your perceptions are formed, they create your perceived reality and will drive the decisions you make on both a conscious and a subconscious level.

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
Clinical experience has shown that most perceptions tend to remain static for significant periods of time. Because perception creates functional reality, this means you will repeat behaviors both good and bad, creating the same reality over and over. To the extent your perception is whole and expansive you gain greater choice control over your reality. To the extent your perception is lacking you will create dysfunction by holding on to opinions, attitudes, or ways of dealing with life that limit your ability to choose your outcomes. This can be a major barrier in every area of your life, including personal relationships, the achievement of goals, and even healing or recovery from illness and injury.

Perceptions and Emotion
Perception is closely tied to emotion. Often you can sense the emotion of others just by listening to them speak, regardless of their words. In fact, the audible tones in spoken voice are packed with subtle energetic qualities that can be measured and tracked. These qualities change to match the topic because they are a reflection of the speaker’s perception of the topic.