Prophageus is guest-blogging for today’s entry.
Enjoy 
Realization is when you have something that you get a sense is there, but aren’t quite sure about, and you finally become fully aware of it being ‘reality’ or definite.
So, as an example, let’s say your intuition tells you that someone is lying to you. You get a sense that they are lying, but you have no fact to back it up, once your mind figures out that they are by piecing together the puzzle pieces or you acquire more factual evidence that they are you then realize that in fact they were lying to you. And, this is a good example, cause ppl tell ‘little white lies’ all day everyday. Some ppl do it for a living.
We all have maps of the world, a useful term from the practice of NLP, and these maps aren’t static. They change as we gather more information. In our early life, our map is set by what we observe through our senses, and also through what we’re allowed to observe by our environmental controls(parents, teachers, etc.). It is also created by how we piece things together, and we all piece things together in different ways. So, if you imagine all the tiny little variables that go into making someone’s map, you can come to the realization that that is what makes us all seem so ‘individual’. My map has a red dot where your map has a blue dot. :O
So, when it comes to important life-changing realizations, how do you think they happen?
Right. New information is presented that fits into the puzzle picture your mind is trying to create, even if it conflicts with a current piece that ’seems’ to fit, so your mind chooses the new piece and ditches the old one. Then a little light bulb lights up in your head, and you go “AHA!”, and then you’re all giddy like a schoolgirl at christmas time.
So, let’s make some practical use of this.
We know we have Will. We know we make our own choices. We know that our choices create endless variables. We know that we’re constantly ‘changing’. But, are we really changing? Or are we just adjusting our perspective? Example: You’re looking at one of those pictures that has a hidden picture. You look at it all day, see nothing but a bunch of odd pattern, even though you know ppl say there’s supposedly a picture of a pirate ship in there somewhere. So, when you finally switch your gaze to looking through the picture, instead of at it, your eyes focus in such a way as to show the picture. Now, it might ’seem’ that your life just changed, cause now you can see the picture. But, really, the picture is the same. You just finally switched to a way of percieving things that allowed you to experience/see something you hadn’t before. SO, it ’seems’ new, but nothing really changed inside you.
So, how do we make practical use of the fact that we have Will, and that we can realize things? The first step would be to make the choice to allow yourself to maybe see things differently than you’ve been seeing them. How many different ways are there to look at something? Ask yourself that, honestly. Pick any random thing, person, place, object, idea, anything. And, ask yourself, how many different ways are there of looking at this?
Remember, it takes new information to change the puzzle’s picture. Right now, all our pictures look like random thrown together 2 year old paintings slopped onto paper. HAHA, with missing sections, and supposed chaos. When we learn to look at things from different perspectives, then we can rearrange the picture, and maybe we can actually see what the 2 year old saw and was trying to create. 
Some of us have started to build pretty pictures, and they’re taking shape, none are complete.. but some are clear enough that we can see what the artist is trying to show us.
So, Make a Choice, to realize. Realization is fun, useful, ninjarific, and it only boils at a temperature of 1 degree!
