Learning to filter the information we receive

We are living in a world where we’re being flooded by information. To avoid being washed away by it we need to learn how to sift and process it. Since the information we receive into ourselves forms and shapes our identity, it’s very important to discern if what we are being given is untrue or partial truth.
This is especially important in how we are seen for if that information is incorrect it can have profoundly negative affects on us.

Getting to know our ways of knowing

Throughout our lives we’ve all had to sift through halftruths, prejudice and bias to discern what information to believe and to take as our own. Early on we’ve come to choose different kinds of knowing as our default and to dismiss other kinds we don’t feel comfortable with. We may prefer rational/ logical thought and dismiss anything that can’t be proved. Or we might choose to believe only our feelings and intuition as accurate despite evidence to the contrary. Or we might trust too much or not at all…

In our interactions we all interpret the information we receive so differently. This process is crucial to how we grow or shrivel relationally. In areas we are vulnerable we can easily be deformed by people who don’t accept or understand us, or mislead by idealizations we’ve chosen to believe.

We’re enlarged by real connection with others

The broader the information base we have, the better our connection with others. Real meeting energises and enlarges us. As we update our own narrow information base we grow. We more clearly recognise our wounding from misinformation in our past that needs healing, and this enables us to better understand the pain that others we meet are carrying.

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