So what are we seeing anyway?

I was reading a few pages of a book today. As usual I meant to read much more than that, and I came across a great quote from Anaïs Nin. She said "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

It got me thinking a little bit about the interesting situation that is being heavily reported in the UK at the moment in relation to the supposed pandemic of Influenza A H1N1, also less catchingly titled "Swine Flu."

By all means from what is reported, this outbreak is serious enough to be brought to our attention, but the purveyors of doom AKA most parts of the popular the media, use language so vague and intangible, that in order to understand what they have written or broadcast, us mere mortals have to go inside our brains and make reference points to events of our past to make any sense of what is written. This in turn causes us to change our state, and before you know it, a huge amount of people are panicking. Very soon we see things as we are, i.e. in the new less resourceful state, unable to put everything into perspective.

Just wanted to leave you with a small thought. How many times, when you have been feeling great have you had to make a decision - it's relatively easy to make isn't it? So, how many times have you had to make a decision when you have been seriously stressed - a little less easy I would guess. This is because your brain, rather helpfully goes into a state known as fight or flight, which in turn shuts off adequate access to large portions of your brain which would be used for logical, emotion free thought.

So what are you doing to change you state? Maybe you'll see, hear, feel, smell and taste things differently.