What can we do to affect our experience? Isn’t our experience just the stuff that happens to us?
Actually, we can do a lot to affect our experience. It’s a matter of how we choose to look at things.
Our perceptions, thoughts, feelings and actions all work together in a circular way:
- How we perceive a situation determines how we will experience it.
- How we perceive a situation is influenced by our thoughts, feelings and actions.
- Our thoughts, feelings and actions affect how we will view any situation, and therefore how we will experience it.
- We can change our thoughts, feelings and actions.
In other words:
You determine your experience, not anyone or anything else.
Your thoughts, feelings and actions are all related. Thoughts affect feelings and actions. Feelings affect actions and thoughts. Actions affect thoughts and feelings. So when you change any one of these three things, you start to change them all. By changing how you choose to think, feel or behave in a situation, you can change a negative cycle in your life into a positive one.
What sort of experience will you choose for yourself?
