I was recently having a conversation with someone. They began to talk about vibrations and frequencies. Some of the science they were citing seemed anecdotal.
But then I tried to see it from a different angle. I tried to literally see it through their eyes based on their experience. These beliefs were part of their culture and their family heritage. I was using an academic lens based on my Western education; it was the wrong lens.
We have shared frameworks like language and the physical world that allow us to communicate, but there is a lot about each other’s subjective experience that we still don’t understand.
Try to resist the urge to subject another person’s experience to your own. Try to see what they’re seeing and understand where they’re coming from.
Not only will this aid your conversations and relationships; it is also like traveling, taking a drug, being young again—in the sense that you get to see the world anew and refresh your perspective.
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” — Winnie the Pooh