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How to Dissolve Challenges
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The Challenge So far - so good. If it's that easy, why aren't we all enlightened, why don't we use this method all the time?
Well - there's one mechanism that blinds us to this kind of expansion: It's our tendency to accept only those insights and
mation that fit our ideas how this world works - and to reject everything else.
Out of the billions of stimuli that constantly bombard our senses and mind, we reject everything that does not suit our ideas. We subconsciously blank out everything beyond what we deem possible.
Take the idea of a limited flat earth. For centuries it blocked the discovery of new continents (America, Australia). The narrow circle drawn around the known lands forestalled all thoughts that something else might even exist.
Yet exactly these types of concepts are active in us NOW. And in precisely the same way they prevent the discovery of the unknown continents within us.
Our mental filters prevent that even a tendency towards. something new arises in the first place. They stop us from perceiving entire parts of reality, - parts that certainly exist, but never reach our attention.
To become aware of these restrictive ideas and to discard them is the first part of the challenge. To open our mind for new concepts and to explore them in our life is the second part.
