How Are Our Perceptions Formed? 🎇
We Are Adaptive Beings
We are created with the feature that we believe our own perceptions. If you think of a relationship with someone else, we always believe and trust our own opinion and are more sceptical about others' opinion. Despite this, if we take emotional reactions into consideration, that is more reliant on what has happened to us rather than what is happening to us, therefore, we may be slightly more humble. Due to this, a lot of what we trust and believe now is based on the adaptations we made when we were younger.
Also, we are adaptive beings. When we are children, we have to adapt to the changes in our social environment. Our sensory pathways develop early, some say as early as three months before we are born. The first six years that we are alive, it is a very important part of our lives where we are setting up the neural networks in our brains. Things that happen during this time can stick with us for a great amount of time and dictate how we act much further in the future. An early occurrence we face can heavily influence later life.
Triggers From Childhood
The relationships we have during childhood affect our perception of how we are being treated, but also influencing how we will treat others. This is why children who have troubled upbringings can often be less accepting to new relationships as their sensory pathways haven't fully developed trust, even during adulthood. These triggers are built up from childhood experiences. The little triggers that we face as children can have big impacts later in life.
If we see a friend who suddenly goes off track who has a trigger which isn't seen as to do with reality, it may be something which happened during their early life. It is hard to distinguish whether they are misperceiving or overreacting. However, finding out what our triggers are when our reaction are not in sync can help us greatly. For instance, if we decide to neglect our children, we may tend to mistakenly feel like we are being disregarded when we are adults.
How Do Our Perceptions Affect The Future?
In some instances, we may find reasons to feel rejected. If we grew up in an intrusive and erratic environment, we may lose trust easily and find commitment hard. Depending on triggers from the past, a little thing can be blown out into proportion and make us feel like a hurricane of emotions.
These triggers can affect everything in our lives from how we are as parents to our careers. We may project feelings from our childhood onto our own children. If we felt deprived in our childhood, we may view our own children and feeling denied love and overcompensate them.
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It should be occurrence instead of occurance.Can objective thinking be taught? So much of what you say is subjective thinking, thus opening the door to needless suffering.