The Perception is Projection Game

This game changes your universe. It’s portable, simple to use in your daily life plus it’s empowering. Play it and you can liberate joy from within. It gets to the heart of problems you have with others so long standing issues can be cleared.

“Perception is projection,” means that whatever you perceive to be outside yourself is ---on some level--- part of you. Jung summarised this when he said, “you marry your unconscious mind and then spend the rest of your life projecting out onto it”. Whatever you don’t like about someone, or your partner, mirrors some behaviour, inside of you, that you are not yet fully aware of.

The “Creator Laboratory” cleverly designed and hardwired these programs, that run 24/7, into your system because you find it difficult to really see yourself. It’s easier to see faults in someone else. Bringing unconscious behaviours that you project onto others back to yourself changes your reality and enables you to pierce illusions.

Change within and the outside world changes. You have already clocked how differently the world and people appear when you have a bad day compared to how the whole world sparkles when you fall in love.

Whether we are conscious of our behaviours or not, we are the creator of our world. The master knows this. This knowing, of being responsible for our reality, raises a student’s stature.

It is easy to measure success in this game. The person pressing your buttons will appear to act differently. Your buttons won’t continue to get pressed in the same circumstances. If you don’t change inside, and trade-in your partner because it was all their stuff, your new partner will have the same behaviours. Self meets self, time and time again, until we get the message.

If you are having problems with your partner you can sometimes sort out your differences by bringing all your projections into your conscious awareness and changing them inside yourself. The relationship may flourish without counselling.

What can happen to people when they bring it back to themselves is they can judge themselves unmercifully. Put the big stick away. Everyone has issues--- you wouldn’t be here otherwise.
Planet earth is the school of learning. We land here with our own combination of “subjects” to graduate from. There is no right or wrong in this game, just behaviours we choose to keep or let go of.

“There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. We see the world not as it is, but as we are” Shakespeare

The Game:

1. Think of a situation where someone is pressing your buttons.
2. Describe their behaviour.
3. How is that behaviour true in you? Be honest.
4. How would you like them to behave with/towards you?
5. How can you be an example of that within yourself?

The last step of the game means changing your behaviour. The conscious awareness of how the behaviour plays out inside you will get the ball rolling. Making the decision to change the undesirable trait will often change everything around you. Sometimes we need to work a little harder. There is plenty of professional help available if you are stuck.

Start with the little things. You will always be able to find the projections inside yourself. If you are having trouble finding an unconscious behaviour, put it out to the universe and wait for it to appear in your consciousness. It might take a few days and then you’ll be in the middle of something when the penny drops.

Your subconscious mind runs most of your behaviours without you being aware of what’s going on, from how you love and the money you make, to how you clean your teeth. Most habits come from doing something once, usually at a young age, or in a past life, or they can be passed on genealogically. We then run them on autopilot ever after. The game uncovers the behaviours that aren’t serving you and you can choose new pathways. It’s liberating and enlightening, it expands your conscious awareness.

Projections are holographic. For example, you may see something in someone at work; but it might show you something about how you interact with your family at home. The person who is pressing your buttons might be doing something that you only think about doing. Energetically there is no difference between thought and deed.

You might think that you have dealt with something but it comes up again. This means the projections might also need to be addressed on other levels. I had to address an issue on the physical, emotional, mental and finally the spiritual level. Sometimes our biggest button presser might be a metaphor for many issues. They put their hands up for more than one part when you wrote your life script in heaven.

It’s good to remember that challenging people and situations serve as our master teachers. Without them our souls would not grow. Perhaps they are the ones who love us the most, on a soul level, because they accept the flak we project at them. Whenever you get angry with your children you can bet they are acting out your unresolved stuff -- conscious or unconscious.

If you have an emotional charge with someone you are a victim to that person. You’re giving them rent-free space in your head. Own your projection and it will disarm and take away the intensity of the charge. Then you can deal with it. Once we own our projections we don’t lose the capacity of the behaviour, we gain more choices.

Projection monsters are created when the concept is not fully owned. “That’s not my projection, it’s theirs”, or, “I can accept that 95% of it is my stuff, but the other 5% isn’t”. That 5% is probably the most important projection to clear. Projecting your stuff onto someone else, denial and avoidance, doesn’t resolve anything. Slipping stuff under the carpet never clears anything. It will surface when you least expect it.

Rules of the game--you can never tell anyone else that it is his or her projection.

If you want results take full responsibility for your actions and don’t blame others. There is a simple equation (C>E) cause is greater than effect. Are you on the cause or the effect side of this equation? Empowerment to get the results you want or victim mode of why you haven’t or can’t. You will have a vast repertoire of reasons/excuses why you don’t get the results you want in your life. The choice is yours.

The prize for the winners of this game is wisdom and compassion. Play it in your life and have fun!