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but with different internalised needs, are

capable of subjectively perceiving two entirely

different versions of reality.

And that goes for all of us. By the subjective

process we call ‘attention’, each one of us has

the ability to construct uniquely different

realities from any presenting field. The

perceived foreground is an individually

meaningful pattern that spontaneously

separates itself from the background - the

presenting material world - in response to the

perceiver’s over-riding psychic state

How we construct our own‘reality’…

What we perceive as being real is precisely

what we need to perceive at any given

moment. Instead of perceiving the totality of

the world as it really is so that we can respond

to present actuality in an appropriate way, our

attention is focussed on scanning the present

field for patterns that relate to unadmitted,

internalised and therefore unresolved feelings