If you look at the whole picture in a general way, it seems that some of the wheels are turning. If you focus your attention on a specific wheel, you will make that wheel stop while the others continue to rotate..
When you have a problem in one area of your life and you focus all your attention on it, all you get is to paralyze that area of your life.
This illusion is called "The Ebbinghaus Illusion". The orange circle on the right appears larger than the one on the left, yet they are both exactly the same size. This perceptual difference occurs as a consequence of the size of the gray circles that surround the oranges. When the gray circles are large, the orange circle appears smaller and vice versa.
The form of reality that we capture is subordinate to the elements that surround it. A person can feel very intelligent if he is surrounded by mediocre people. That same person can feel mediocre if surrounded by geniuses.
This image is a little harder to see. It appears to represent a continuous spiral. However, they are concentric circles that do not touch. Do the test: follow the line of the spiral with a pencil (without scratching the computer screen) and you will see that you do not advance.
At first glance it may seem that a series of events are related and yet this relationship is the result of chance. We can also think that we know the right way to achieve a certain goal and all we are doing is going around in a circle without moving forward..
If we look at the figure on the left, we have the impression that the black line is the continuation of the blue line. However, if we discover the rectangle that covers them, we verify that it is actually the red line.
You think that you have reached a certain destination as a result of different events. And yet it is other events that have really made you end up where you are. You think that you have gotten a good job luckily, and in reality your intelligence and way of being have had a lot to do with it..
The gray rectangles on the left appear to be a lighter hue than the gray rectangles on the right. Yet they are exactly the same. Something similar to the case of circles of different sizes occurs in this illusion. The intensity of the gray tone of the rectangles is subordinate to the color of the rectangles on both sides. When a gray rectangle has black rectangles on both sides it appears light gray. When a gray rectangle has white rectangles on both sides it appears dark gray.
The same problem can take on different dimensions depending on our state of mind when we think about it. A positive state of mind leads us to reduce the intensity of the problem. On the contrary, a negative state of mind can lead us to accentuate it.
The long black lines are parallel to each other. However, the small diagonal lines make us perceive that this parallelism does not exist.
Any aspect of our lives will suffer small "interferences" that can make us believe that we are failing and losing our balance. A little argument with your partner does not mean that your relationship is a disaster. Failing an exam does not mean you are failing in your career. These interferences can momentarily distort the global image of balance that we have about that aspect of our lives..
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