By Denise Turney

Searching for the meaning to a word? There’s a good chance you can find what you’re looking for in a dictionary. Similar to how a bilingual woman working for a travel agency interprets the words of her manager to customers, so too, you give interpretations or meanings to each event in your life.

How so, you ask. If a tall, burly man with an unkempt beard frowns at you each early morning he boards the same train you take into the city, you give the man’s expression meaning. In other words, you tell yourself what the man’s expression means. Then, you respond to this interpretation psychologically and emotionally. Who knows? Years from now, scientists may discover that we respond to our own interpretations more deeply than we currently realize.

The thing about our interpretations is that we really don’t know WHY an event occurs. We really don’t know WHY someone has an expression on his face. Returning to the example of the man boarding the train, you might tell yourself the man is mean, selfish, unhappy, violent or mentally imbalanced. All this from an expression, and remember — you don’t even know the man.

We do this all day long.

Now consider that what we focus on or think about repeatedly shows up in our life more and more. Can’t you see more people wearing frowns, seemingly looking down at you, appearing in your life? Before long, you might start to think that the world is one mean place. What you probably would never do is consider how your interpretations of events/experiences created a chain reaction.

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