Beyond Emotional Intelligence

4You Are the Common Denominator

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

—Eric Michael Leventhal

Where is the one place from which we cannot escape? Where do we spend the entirety of our lives? In this body and in this mind. Many of us go through our entire lives trapped in the confines of our own habitual ways of processing and making sense of what we perceive, not even realizing the role our interpretation of reality plays. Once we realize our own awareness is the exit strategy from an escape room of our own making, we start to catch glimpses of the invisible mental attitudes and constructs holding us hostage to those aspects of ourselves we're not yet consciously aware of. Within any given moment of our lives, we experience a nearly constant stream of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and emotions, for which we have our brain, our social conditioning, and our prior experiences to thank.

If each day of your life were captured by an episode of your favorite Netflix series, what would the day you're having today be entitled? What would you name the series? What would you witness as you observe your own life from the vantage point of someone looking in from the outside? If there were headlines of this series, what might they be? How might you describe to others what takes place in the series of episodes that when viewed together comprise your life? What notable ...