The way you mentally filter experiences shapes your emotional and physical response to those experiences. There’s an entire field now based on this premise: epigenetics, which shows that our perception of events and situations shapes how those events affect us.7 Research shows that your interpretation of events, despite their objective characteristics, determines the impact of stress and illness on your body.8,9 The way you interpret an experience literally affects how your body metabolizes that experience. Perception shapes biology.
It's not what happens to you that's problematic; it's what you think about what happened to you that causes you problems. (Victor Frankle)
