We're all conditioned by and subject to a host of impressions from our culture, family and society, as well as from the vast tapestry of our personal experience. Such influences inevitably affect the ways we see the world and one another.

Mindfulness practice teaches us to see more clearly the reality of experience. This means becoming cognizant of the various filters that can occlude our perception. These filters are like glasses we don’t realize we're wearing that colour the world and make it seem a certain way. Filters are the implicit bias we develop, and this affects our understanding, perceptions and decisions.