The Path Beyond Self-Judgment

"Pali Summerlin: I'm talking about shifting to a radical understanding of yourself as cause in the matter of whatever shows up in your world. The way that we see reality creates our experience of reality. How we see is determined by our early wounding; the lens through which we see is distorted by our early pain. In other words, as Anais Nin said, "We don't see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.""

"PS: No. I use a technology with clients called the Six Steps to Freedom process, which correlates to your early wounding and the distortion lens through which you perceive reality. It's very deep and close and personal work. We've bandied around the concept that we create our own reality for a very long time in spiritual circles."

Early emotional wounding shapes the perceptual lens and determines how individuals experience the world. Perception becomes a distortion created by early pain, causing people to see the world as they are rather than as it is. Suffering often stems from internalized conclusions and self-judgment rather than external circumstances. A process called the Six Steps to Freedom offers focused self-inquiry that correlates with early wounding and the distortion lens, enabling identification of erroneous beliefs. By exposing mistaken conclusions, the distortion can be cleared, judgment transformed into self-understanding, and habitual suffering dispelled.

Read at Psychology Today