seeing what’s good

In a recent conversation with a colleague, she mentioned reading an article that focused on the fact that what we perceive, where we focus our “seeing”, has a concrete effect in our world.  This reminded me of the quantum physics findings around the “observer effect”.  The observer effect speaks to the fact that the observer of an experiment seems to have a powerful and important impact on the outcome of the experiment.  What the observer expects turns out to be what actually happens.

In the article my colleague mentioned, the author encouraged people to see what is good and right in their world as, in this way, they promote those qualities and outcomes, drawing on the dynamics of the observer effect.  This reminded me of something I’ve shared before in a number of experiments on the dynamics of what is called subtle activism.   Read More “693rd Week:  Orienting to “Seeing What’s Good””