Filters

What is a Filter?

by Kay Noble

A small child is playing outside and he is having a wonderful time. Along comes an unhappy cat and this cat acts unreasonably and attacks the boy. This experience with the Cat has created a FILTER.

A filter is a learned response to protect self from new or different experiences. Throughout history Filters have kept us alive.

We learned quickly how to survive in our environment because of our ability to apply filters and boundaries.

However, because filters have been so beneficial to us in the past does not mean that they are appropriate in every situation. Life and Death are one thing but when we apply filters for the wrong reasons (not for survival or safety) then they begin to separate us.

You probably have filters without realizing it, that shape how you feel about people and or your surroundings

What is your first thought when I say;

• kindness
• sexuality
• physical disabilities
• religion
• autistic
• alcoholic
• Ethnic 
• Social Status

This doesn't make us bad; it makes us human. Becoming aware is the first step of changing for the better.

For instance, when you undergo hypnosis you are presented with a group of suggestions, your filters react with these suggestions to induce a hypnotic state.

If I wanted to use a filter against you, I could make a political ad and maybe use a picture of a starlet approving of my candidate. It wouldn't matter what the ad said, as your filter would have already made its impression.

Look around you and listen to your speech. Are you using filters? Are you separating yourself?

It is seeing ourselves in others that enables us to be empathetic and compassionate. It is realizing that we are alike in so many ways. Far more ways than we differ. We are all water and minerals, breathing air and needing to feel love. When we see how we are alike we will soon start to LOVE ourselves. Loving yourself is HEALING.

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