Try this little experiment

Duck or Rabbit? How Perception Shapes What We See

What do you see in the image? Duck, or rabbit?

Whatever you saw first isn't really about the picture. As Anaïs Nin put it, "we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Psychologists call this naive realism — this belief that what we see is the truth. What we see is coloured by our own perception.

Around Easter, of course, we tend to see the rabbit more...

Some people see both, or can flip between them. That's closer to what we're exploring this week — not picking a side and defending it, but being able to hold more than one view at once.

We're all prediction machines, always assessing what's about to happen next, based on everything we've experienced before — so much of it happening beneath conscious awareness, colouring what we actually see.

We can never fully see a situation because we don't know all the parts of the story. Might be worth remembering next time you're trying to understand someone else's point of view — we always come into things coloured by our own experience.

This week in Flow to Restore, we're exploring Viveka — not just reacting to what we see, but becoming aware of the seeing itself.

Big love, Em x