Zombies in your head

I have been fascinated lately, just looking at people. Looking into their eyes and seeing different things. Fear, confusion, weariness, or, alternatively, confidence, energy, fun, passion and compassion.

How does this happen that there are so many people look differently at the world, have different perception of the world?

It is the way we evaluate the events that come to us and enter our body through the different senses. We classify, organise and segment those events and then, finally, judge them, according to what we perceive to be true.

There was a time, when this was different. When nothing hold you back, when anyone just goes for it. A time, when it didn't matter that you fall on your backside when you started to learn something new. When curiosity drove your behaviour.

This was the time before school, before educational rules and regulations, before all the "Don't do this" and "don't do that" of uncles and aunties. A care-free time.

Over time, neurochemicals and electrical activity in your mind started to implement filters on your world. You learnt to distort, generalise and delete incoming information. Your mind had to do it, because simply, you would be overwhelmed if it wouldn't do it. There are two million bits of information per second that the brain has to come to terms with - information from your internal and external world.

The brain is not able to hold onto all the information at once, but need to impose order onto it. Especially since it can only hold 7 +/- 2 pieces of information at any one time, equivalent about 134 kb!! Imagine that! From 2 million bits of information down to 134 kb. You do the math, will you? Than you know how much is taken away.

So the brain imposes an order onto it - so what? I talked about filters above, and that these filters determine how we see, and evaluate the world and label our experiences. the 134 kbs that are left are the way we see the world.

What is the impact? Ever wondered why people describe the same event differently? Be it a car accident, be it a movie, be it a political situation.

That is the way they look at the world and how they filter information!

That is the impact of these zombies in your head. It is so very easy to see the different filters at work, when someone writes blogs.

If someone has been trained to see things in a negative or positive light or even with hate, everything is negative, positive or hateful. If someone was told, often enough, that he or she is a no good, sure they doubt themselves, are constantly worried or question their own behaviour.

There is nothing wrong with that, that is not what I am saying. But the challenge is to understand and possibly change those limited beliefs - they are holding us - you, me and everyone else - back in our development.

They are like clusters in our mind. They are the zombies in our mind that question our actions. The zombies that don't allow us to see the miracles all around us. The zombies that are hiding from our discovery because they are burried deep, deep inside of our mind, even so they are so visible in all your actions, behaviours, words and values.

The zombies that I can see when I look into your eyes, because that is how you look at the world. May be to be fascinated is the wrong word then. More, a sadness inside of me because there is always, always so much greatness inside all humans. Onle that this greatness has been burried by limited beliefs that hold us back.

(Addition: The intention of this entry is to indicate belief systems in other blogs as I perceive them to be. I am not judging those blog entries or their owners and in fact, value the authors by opening up their values to others. They are asking the right questions and are on the way to see positive change in their world.

(NLP in Asia)

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