Throughout
history we have been continually given the keys to unlock the door to a life of
happiness. Yet, for some unknown reason
we have continually thrown away the keys, and accepted society’s conditioning
that our birth onto this planet was a birth into the school of hard knocks. We are told life was meant to be a struggle,
and there are no free rides. Life was
about conforming. One was required to
get an education, enter into the world of work, pay taxes and have a family. Once you had done your time, society would
reward you with the golden watch of retirement, and off you would go to enjoy
your final years in bliss. The problem is
that by the time the retirement stage arrives, many are faced with another set
of problems, namely faltering health and the anticipated enjoyment becomes a
routine of medical appointments and pills.
Yet, it
doesn’t have to be that way. You do not have to wait until some future moment
in time to be happy. Happiness can begin
right now. All it requires is a shift in
your perception. It is time to take back the keys that can open the door to
your happiness. You have the power to
change your life. You are in control of
your journey, and it is you that creates your own reality.
Oh there is
that little phrase,” You create your own
reality.” Sure you say. If I create
my own reality I wouldn’t have created this. Yet, when things are going well
you have no problem accepting responsibility for what is happening in your life. You get the new job and you say, ‘I did
that’. You get a new partner and you
say, ‘I did that’. You scored well on a
test or win some game and you say, ‘I did that’. However, the moment the proverbial ‘shit hits
the fan’ you look around for someone or something to blame. It’s the downsizing
economy. It’s my boss. It’s my partner, my kids, my genes, my parents, my
teachers, my friends…there is an unending list of other factors. It’s always something or someone out there
that is doing this to me. It is
certainly not my doing. If you accept that there is something outside of
yourself that is creating your reality, then you will always feel that you are
at the mercy of some outside situation or circumstance. You have in essence accepted that you are a
victim of life.
Here is an
exercise for you. Go look in a mirror right now. If you want to change the
image that is staring back you, what do you do?
Do you look at the mirror and say change? Of course not, you change your expression and
the image reflecting back to you changes. It is the same thing with life. You cannot change
the outer reflection of your world until you change or shift your inner
perception.
At this
point you are probably thinking, “Yeah right. What reality are you living
in? We all live on the same planet and
this reality is tangible. We are all
experiencing the same reality.” I hate
to tell you but there is no outside reality; your world is only a reflection of
your inner reality. The physical reality that surrounds you is an illusion but,
and this is important, your experience of it is real. I know you are now thinking, “Here she goes
down the hokey pokey road.” Just give me
a moment and think about this simple example. You have two people walking down
the exact same street at the same time.
One individual sees the world around them as a miserable, fearful and a
wretched place to live. The other sees
the world around them as beautiful and filled with wonderful people. Each of them is living their truth based upon
their perception. Each can find evidence
to validate their truth. It is however
their perceptions of ‘what is’ that is creating their reality. In other words,
reality exists only where the mind creates a focus.
Still don’t
believe me. Here’s a question for you to think about. Why do eyewitnesses to an accident each have
a different version of the events? One
sees the car as red. Another sees it as
magenta and still another sees it as green.
One says the car went through a red light. Another says yellow. Many times they can’t even agree on what the
individual driving the car looked like. He
was tall. He was short…light skinned, dark skinned….in many instances
eyewitnesses never agree on their account of what happened. The reason for this is that we all take in
the information around us differently, and we filter that information according
to our beliefs and perceptions.
So where
are you placing your focus right now? Are
you looking for things to appreciate? Or are you complaining about what’s wrong
in your life? As we go further in this
blog I will show you how you get what you focus upon.
That’s enough
for today.
