Does it fit the box?

If you want to send something through Fedex, it has to fit into the Fedex box. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t ship, at least not through Fedex.

We have our own boxes, our own perceptual maps. Our brain perceives only the sensations (stimuli) that we are programmed to receive. It’s always easier for the nervous system to ignore that which doesn’t fit.

When our perceptual maps are based on scarcity thinking, that’s what we see in the world. And the more we see that, the more our maps become consolidated.

It’s tempting to say that once I see the evidence of abundance, only then will I try to change my story (or perceptual map). But it doesn’t work that way.

A story about possibility helps us see and create possibility as we engage with the way things are.

Einstein himself in 1926 told Heisenberg it was nonsense to found a theory on observable facts alone: ‘In reality the very opposite happens. It is theory which decides what we can observe.’

~ The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Ben Zander