Have you ever wondered what is meant by the statement, "You create your own reality"?
Some people feel
empowered when they hear this statement. Others think it is ridiculous BS.
Those who feel empowered by it sometimes lose their empathy and compassion.
They may go around challenging people: "Why do you think you manifested
this cancer you have?" making people who buy into that idea feel horrible
about themselves.
But there is a sane
middle ground here. Let's take a deeper look:
1.
We live in a world of
activity that is constantly happening both inwardly and outwardly. And all of
that activity is governed by laws of cause and effect that we do NOT create. In
this sense we do not create "our" reality. Stay with me now...
2.
Everything we
experience through our senses -- let's call it perceptual data -- is raw data that
means NOTHING until we assign meaning to it. This might sound weird, but it's
very simple. If perceptual data were capable of embodying and transmitting its
own meaning and value, we would never disagree about anything! We would all
like chocolate cake and broccoli equally (or dislike them equally) because they
would transmit their meaning and value to us directly and irrefutably. Those
foods would be inherently pleasant or unpleasant to everyone, no argument.But
we don't ALL like chocolate cake and broccoli! We see, smell, and taste their
qualities, but we give them our own individual meaning and value. Cake:
"yum!" Broccoli: "yuck!" And based on the meaning and value
we give them, we create our emotional responses and storylines which we then
regard as our "experience of the world." However, what we're really
experiencing is only what we think and feel about the world -- not the world
itself. This is the way that we are constantly creating our
"reality."
What do we do with
this understanding, once we have it?
Understanding these
points, when someone with cancer is heartlessly told they created their own
illness, how can they deal with the challenge of being blamed for their
suffering? They can understand that ALL activity, including the development of
an illness like cancer, arises from causes and conditions that are ruled by the
law of cause and effect.
For example, you
choose to live somewhere that has beautiful weather and great job
opportunities. Unbeknownst to you, maybe that place also has high levels of
ingestible pollutants, causing you to develop cancer or some other illness. You
didn't move there because you wanted to manifest cancer in your body. So you
didn't "create" your cancer.
So the idea of
"creating our reality" is not a justification to blame others, or to
blame ourselves. It is instead an opportunity to have compassion for each other
as we grow in awareness that what we're calling our "life experience"
is NOT a direct contact with a given "outer world." Our experience is
the hodgepodge we experience AFTER the data of the outer world is filtered
through all the beliefs, memories, and habitual thinking patterns of our mind!
Once we recognize that
real challenges are not coming from the world, but from what we make of the
world in our mind, we can begin to appreciate a very important fact: that, if
we want to know what's really going on, we're going to need to look more deeply
and think more deeply about our experience and our emotional states.
Does this mean you're
supposed to be happy all the time?
No. There's no use
pretending that real pain and suffering doesn't occur. It obviously does, and
frequently so. But you might go even further, thinking, "How can I even
consider being joyful in a world like this?" And to that I would say that
Joy is naturally present as part of our humanity -- feeling joy doesn't equate
with a self-involved, uncaring attitude about the world: "I've got mine,
that's all that matters. Look at me, I'm so happy." We all know that's not
joy.
So, you don't have to
pretend you're happy or joyful with your situation or with the terrible things
happening in the world. You don't have to pretend you are happy or joyful with
everything you say or do, either. But you CAN stay "happy" (kind and
encouraging, and be "joyful" (self-loving) to yourself in the midst
of such challenges.
Kindness and
encouragement are flavors of joy. When you are kind and encouraging with
yourself, you can relate to the negativity in the world with mostly Genuine
Humane Feelings of kindness, compassion, empathy and encouragement -- instead
of mostly with confused emotional states of resentment, anxiety, hopelessness,
and despair.
Staying kind and
encouraging with yourself keeps your mind and heart and body in a healthy,
joyful, creative state. When you're in that kind of state, you're able to meet
the challenges in your most resourceful way.
It is a profound,
secret, and priceless jewel to know and maintain an unwavering inner
environment of self kindness and encouragement, regardless of chaotic inner or outer
circumstances. This is true wisdom and strength, and it enables you to
contribute to the world in beneficial ways.
You can do it! Good
luck!
#kindness #mindfulness
"Everything we do
flows from and is colored by our inner state of self-relationship. Be kind to
yourself."
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