How Do Babies See The World?
Hello everyone,
Today I wanna talk to you about how babies perceive.
It was very difficult for me to condense this information
into the information that I'm about to convey to you,
because this subject is its own life study
in and of itself.
It's difficult to say how one thing perceives
over how another thing perceives
because there are immense amount of variables.
Babies are no different.
But, let's think about coming into life
like coming into a video game program.
You have to fully adapt to that program.
You have to integrate,
and that is its own process.
So, coming from birth
up through adulthood,
is a process of integrating into the program.
At first, when you come into this physical program
you're not fully integrated.
Neither are your senses.
You have to acclimate to it.
When you come into this physical life,
your perspective is still very much
in tandem with the perspective of your eternal self.
You are still aware
that your thoughts create your reality,
which is why, up until about age 2
you're so good at focusing only on what you want to focus on.
Any of you who spend time around a baby
know how easy it is for them to ignore you
no matter how much you try to get their attention,
they will not pay attention to something
that they don't want to pay attention to,
because they know that their thoughts create reality.
But pretty soon,
at about age 2 to 3,
they start to get more flack from their parents
for not paying attention.
Eventually, it makes sense for them
to pay attention to what the caregivers in their environment
are wanting them to pay attention to,
more so, than it makes sense to pay attention
to their own internal guidance system.
In this day and age,
if a baby doesn't pay attention
to what you want them to pay attention to,
pretty soon they're going to find themselves in the doctor's office
and the psychiatrist wards,
and they start getting so much flak
from the adults in their life, for that,
that it actually is more beneficial to them
to train themselves away from their internal guidance system
and be focusing on things which their parents want them to focus on.
Gradually, your attention gets trained
away from the things you want to focus on,
and towards the things that the caregivers in your environment
wants you to focus on
regardless of whether they feel good to look at, or not.
In other words,
you go deeper and deeper into the program
the longer that you live here on this planet,
unless you learn or decide
or set forth the intention
to step outside the program.
Then you can use the physical experience
as a kind of way to inspire yourself
back towards what you really are.
When a baby is born,
their brain uses about 70% of their total energy intake.
When babies are born,
the parts of their brain that are developed
are the parts that control survival.
Such as, reflexes like sucking
so they can take in milk,
and survival systems like heartbeat and breathing.
Memory also, is something which evolves over time.
Memory is responsible for recognition.
Such as the recognition of the mother's smell
or familiar faces.
More and more it serves a being
both to survive, but more importantly
to differentiate between what is wanted versus what is unwanted,
and to learn, so that the being
can use the learning experience of this life, to evolve,
which is the entire purpose of coming into physical form
in the first place.
When babies are born
their eyesight is very fuzzy.
In truth, their eyes are completely capable
of perceiving the same way that an adult's eyes do,
but the brain can't process the visual information
that is coming in through the eyes.
It's a misnomer
that babies actually see in black and white.
They don't, they see in color,
but they have a difficult time
distinguishing between shades that are similar.
For example, they have a difficult time
distinguishing between, let's say, blue and purple
or orange and red.
Babies are not integrated to the program yet.
They visually perceive mostly light shapes and movement.
They have not learned how to focus yet.
They have no depth perception
until about four months old.
But as the baby learns to focus,
they will begin to see the world more like you see it.
By eight months to a year,
the typical baby sees like an adult sees,
with the exception that they usually hold
a vibratory rate that is high enough
that they still visually and auditorily
perceive thought-forms.
Thought-forms like light beings, ghosts or spiritual guides.
As long as the vibratory rate of the individual, stays high
and their expectation isn't trained away
from the belief in them
by parents who, for example, say:
"your imaginary friends aren't real",
or, "no, there's nothing in the room",
they will continue to perceive them into childhood
and even for some, into adulthood.
Babies must learn to see the world
by ignoring the space around an object.
They must learn to differentiate
from one thing in the quantum field,
and another thing in the quantum field,
by learning how to focus and how to ignore.
This is why babies are so drawn
to things that are appearing to have high contrast
or very sharp edges,
because it's a very defined way of seeing the world.
It is difficult for them, when they first come in,
to distinguish between mom,
and what's next to mom.
All they see is basically shapes.
So the more contrast that you're able to provide them visually,
the more they're able to differentiate between you
and the rest of the quantum field.
Learning to differentiate between one object and another object
within the quantum field,
one expression and another expression
within the quantum field is a better way of saying it,
is what gives rise to the natural progression
of a baby losing its ability to see the rest of the quantum field,
losing its ability to see the energetic nature of the universe.
This is when, visually, the world starts to look "static",
static meaning finite.
So, a static object is something which looks solid
versus something that looks fluid like energy movement.
This learning to focus
and thus learning to ignore
everything that you are not focusing on,
is in fact what helps people,
doesn't really benefit them,
but it's what allow people to cease to see auras
and cease to see these other things
of an energetic nature
which go along with the sixth sense.
So, they shut down the sixth sense
in order to opt into the five senses
which we associate with the physical dimension
Babies also have to acclimatize to emotion.
Though feeling exists outside the physical dimension,
emotion does not exist outside the physical dimension,
and emotion and feeling are two different things.
The emotion is the biochemical translation of a feeling.
The more that we are able to focus on an individual thought,
the stronger and more intense
the reflection of that thought is in the body
and we call that reflection emotions.
So, the more we're able to focus on an individual thought,
the more intensity we're able to lend it
and the more meaning, the stronger our emotions become.
What this means is that when we're younger,
and not so able to focus yet,
emotion doesn't even register in the body.
At birth, most of us feel resistance
relative to coming into the physical environment.
For lack of a better way of explaining it,
it is a bit of a shock.
Less so, for those that choose to birth their babies
in calm dark atmospheres.
But it is still a shock.
This resistance gives rise to the desire for familiarity
and thus we are handed to our mothers or caregivers
and this is when our positive association with our caregivers, begins.
This is also why interfering with the immediate physical contact
between mother and baby can create disastrous results
for the bond between both mother and child
and for the lifetime social bond
between the baby and other people.
It is a bond and a love which intensifies
every time we experience something
that causes us to want our caregivers or parents
or what they can do for us,
like, feeding or holding or changing diapers.
Despite all of our merit as a species
we are highly maladapted to our environment.
We are a born three months premature.
The reason for this is that
if we were born three months later,
we couldn't even fit through the birth canal.
Unlike other mammals,
we are not ready to function
in relation to the world yet,
when we're born.
This is why wise parents
and the ones that are very most successful with their newborns,
adhere to the fourth trimester philosophy.
Which is that you are going to try to create
the simulation of the child being in the womb
for the majority of the time during the first three months
of that child's life.
Many of their physical processes
are not actually developed enough
to participate in the physical dimension.
This is why, for example,
that true emotional experiences
like we experience them as adults,
begins to occur around three months old
and intensifies with age.
This is the age, for example,
that a baby begins to feel the biochemical feeling of joy
in tandem with a smile.
We have to develop expectations
in order to experience emotions like anger,
so that comes even later, around about six months.
And fear is something which develops
in tandem with memory.
Though, with a newborn
you're going to see survival reflexes,
that doesn't come with the feeling,
the emotional state feeling of fear
until later.
That's something that develops over time
and you see a peak in the experience of the actual emotion in fear
around about six to eight months old,
or in some babies, even a year
when they start to develop their most intense phases
of attachment with their caregivers.
And when those caregivers leave the room,
you'll start to see that intense stroke of fear
and the fear, that emotional release
is actually what's causing the screaming and the crying in the baby.
Up until this point,
primarily when a baby cries
as a result of being "scared"
what they're actually crying about is not the physical emotion of fear,
it is the fact that the startle response
which is an effect of the autonomic nervous system
is such an intense sensation to them,
that it overwhelms them
and the natural release is to start crying.
Fear increases the more that we add meaning to our experiences.
Until we add meaning,
there's a very muted emotional quality
to the things that we're experiencing.
For example,
if an entire tray of plates was to smash on the floor,
all you would have is the emotional by-product,
the feeling state
of the startle response
relative to that smashing of the plates.
But if you were then to add meaning to the experience,
something like:
"Oh the plates have crashed and now that means
that somebody is going to be really angry at me
and I'm going to get in trouble".
That meaning that we add on top of the situation
is what causes that extreme sensation of fear or sadness
It's the meaning we're adding to the experience
which actually gives rise to those extreme levels of fear.
So, until we're capable of adding meaning to a situation,
we don't experience the same kind of emotion
relative to the circumstance.
As a baby grows,
they become capable of both creating and perceiving
more and more complex emotional states.
This process actually continues
all the way through puberty.
The brain is what allows you
to participate in the program of physical life.
As it develops, it becomes more and more adept
at creating the program and participating in the program.
Life becomes more and more real.
We perceive it as a less of a temporary hologram
and more like the only reality that exists
and a static one at that.
We come to expectations about the world
and objects within this world,
and these expectations cause the physical reality
to keep validating those expectations to us.
Babies act according to the universal principles that exist.
It is not natural to be out of alignment
and so the natural behavior and perspective of a baby
is in alignment with their soul.
They are self focused
because to continually find alignment with the self
is natural and beneficial
and ensures not only survival,
but also, the ability to thrive.
They only begin abandoning self interest.
when they begin to get enough flak,
such as shaming, from people in their environment,
that they decide that it will cause them less stress
to just go along with the dominant way of being
in their environment.
But, this level of very natural alignment
is what allows their eternal perspective
to flow unrestricted through the physical body.
Which is why staring into the eyes of newborn
is like staring into the eyes of source.
It's also why it is very difficult for those of us who are adults
to stay out of alignment,
to keep reinforcing negative emotional states
when we're in the presence of a baby.
Have a good week.
Subtitles by: Tanya Duarte www.tanyaduarte.com