The world you experience—your personal reality—is shaped by your perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. In many ways, your external world and your internal experience (or what we might call your “field of being”) are deeply interconnected. As Carl Jung once noted, “There’s no difference between you and what you experience,” highlighting how our inner world influences how we interpret and respond to the outer world. When facing challenges, it can be helpful to ask: Are these difficulties rooted in the external, objective world, or do they arise within my internal experience? Reflecting on this distinction can offer valuable insight and support emotional self-awareness and growth. Read on