Here are some simple but amazing facts about our eyes:
• They are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
• They are composed of more than two million working parts. (Amazing!)
• They are the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, 24 hours a day without rest.
• They can process 36,000 bits of information every hour (better than a computer!)
• They contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge (Better take good care of it)
• In a normal life-span, they will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
So a good part of the “image” we have about our world and our life derived from our eyes. But there is another important element in this image-building: it’s our brain! Our brain receives the information and processes the data in its own way: it changes the information according to feelings, subconscious experiences and pattern, and even to our own belief as reality should be!
Consequently the pictures we “remember” to have seen sometimes are not exactly as we think they are! They are more an impression of reality.
Scientists made an experiment with some volunteers putting them on glasses (almost like swimming goggles) that turned everything upside down. Imagine you would stand on your head and look at the world around you! At the beginning (the first 2 to 3 days) the test persons saw the world like this: upside down. But then the unbelievable happened: the vision “turned around”, the world appeared normal again. Isn’t that amazing?
But what are the consequences out of this experience?
We should be careful with our vision and impressions we receive “from our eyes”. We should try to objectively see our world around us and not make interpretations immediately. Our subconscious interpretations often lead us to just reconfirm what we always were thinking about. We tend to reconfirm our prejudices and not to see objectively reconsidering our old beliefs. Our blockades block out new impressions and objective views of the reality.
How does this affect our personal development and growth? Find out here!
