Limitation of Human Perception

When a person views only his own version reality, he invariably locks on to it. Only a part of the reality gets focused, the other aspects of reality gets blocked out by his prior expectation or conditioning etc. He can't perceive it. This is one great factor that limits man's capabilities and performance. We often formulate beliefs and views that are not consistent with the real world, these are our blind spots called SCOTOMAS, a sensory blocking-out of some aspect of reality.

Scotomas

Scotomas are a sensory locking out some aspect of environment through prior expectations or conditioning. We stick to our conditioned beliefs only. We become prisoners of our own "blind spots" because of our ways of perceiving things, our blind ways of doing things, our "lock out" notion of what can be done. They cause us to see what we want to see, hear what we expect to hear and think what we expect to think. We never seem to question or doubt our perception and always take it for granted. We never even suspect that we have them, nor we even verify them.

We go about our daily routine, running our business, raising our family, doing our jobs, unaware of the several options open to us, for growth and success are within our reach.

We lock on to conventional ways of doing things and lock out many options open to us. We go about doing things wrongly convinced that we are right and all else are wrong.

When we get filled with prejudices or hatred, we do terribly inhuman things, oblivious of the ghastly nature of of our own actions. When our scotomas prevent us to see any good or merit in our own selves, we put a seal to our growth and development and possibly sow the seeds of destruction.

When we wrongly hold an adverse opinion about our subordinates and our children, we proceed to adopt unbecoming attitudes about them. Those who respect and admire us, tend to own up our limiting and negative assessment of them, they get programmed by them to produce negative behaviour.

Scotomas have brought a lot of misery, tremendous conflict and strife to mankind. When we consider our negative thoughts as realistic and the positive ones as irrelevant or absurd, then you can easily imagine the consequences.

When we lock-on to one aspect of reality, we lock-out the rest of it and limited our selves. This happened to someone whom I know very well. That some one, always use to think about the adopted son who was taken away and then slowly that someone got divorced and misery and pain took over that someone.

During the exercises you may have noticed how you missed out the "Fs" the old or the young lady, the Fly etc.

It simply points towards a Lock On/Lock Out phenomena. Are you and your people "locked on" to traditional ways of doing things?

Most people lock out valuable information about reality because they are conditioned to do so.

Think of scotomas, how you perform in your job, see your business opportunities, what you think of your health, competence, capability in sports and in all fields of life. Se how you could close several options open to you.

Think of a drawing of two ladies, what prevented you from seeing both ladies? See how you perform and do things.

Locking out can however be beneficial. It helps you to build your own scotomas to outside distractions. As you lock on to a project with real concentration, it helps you to focus intently on the challenge at hand. By deliberately building your own scotomas, you are able to lock out needless distractions.

To Be Continued......................................