In arguing against
law of attraction as a valid principle, one of the most frequently
asked questions is: “If I create my own reality, why
on earth did I create this”? Sometimes it is phrased:
“I can’t possibly be creating my reality because
I never would have chosen this”. Everybody wonders about
this. This article explains how we create.
How we create
We create the reality we experience
by our thoughts and feelings. Our thoughts and feelings create
a tone or a vibration that acts as a magnet which draws to
us more of the experiences or events that will give us more
of the same thoughts and feelings. This has to be brief here
because volumes and volumes have been written on the specifics
of how we do it and how to control it. Our dominant vibration
draws situations of like vibration to us. Most of the time
we are creating from default. We are not consciously aware
of what we are thinking or believing, and we are not making
conscious choices for our preferences.
The nine ways we create unconsciously
are:
1. Habit
Current research in neuro-psychology
says we think 50,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day and over 90
percent of these are the same thoughts we thought yesterday.
They are often the same thoughts our parents had. We seldom
examine or question the random, repeating small voice in our
heads. Often it is saying things like “this is the only
way to do this”, “this is just the way it is”.
Or it is saying things like “this can’t happen
to a person like me”, and “I’m not good
enough, smart enough, lucky enough to do . . .” or “everybody
knows . . .”
2. Ignorance: Not knowing
I had a better choice or even any choice at all
We often don’t realize
we can have a choice about things. Until we start learning
about deliberate creation we often feel like we are victims
of circumstance, of randomness, or of a judgmental and capricious
god. None of this is true. Learning deliberate creation is
empowering. We come to understand, through knowing the physics
of it, that we can influence EVERYTHING in our world. And
yet, we still often think, but I can’t affect my health,
for instance, or but I can’t affect world events. Not
true. We always have choice and we always have free will.
We can affect and influence everything we experience. I don’t
mean we can affect our response to it only after it has appeared
in our lives, but that we can control the balance and frequency
of our experience of joyful and less joyful events in our
lives. Yes, it takes practice and awareness, but it can be
done and it’s not too difficult to do.
3. Expectations of those around
me, media conditioning, group think
How often have you heard thoughts
stated like “if something can go wrong, it will”,
“the change in temperature is causing everybody to catch
a cold”, “because the economy is bad, jobs are
hard to get now” “you’re too old –
nobody your age ever did that”, “your body will
deteriorate as you get older”. A friend of mine who
works in the medical profession said, “all men get prostate
problems as they get older”. I was horrified. I playfully
punched him on the arm and reminded him not to think that
way if he doesn’t want to be one of them. Advertisements,
particularly on TV, and especially those by the pharmaceutical
companies are powerful influencers if we believe them. They
try to make you believe “everybody has . . . “,
or “everybody needs . . “. Magazines, newspapers,
movies and the culture we live in all perpetuate ideas they
take as truth. In reality, truth can be what we define it
to be for each of us.
4. Selective Observing
Observation of a state or
condition brings more of the same. This is what we call a
self-fulfilling prophecy. We use our minds, unconsciously,
to shift through our thousands of interactions to find the
ones that justify our ideas, beliefs, and expectations about
the world. Then we say, “See? I knew it would be this
way!” If we believe all cashiers are rude, for instance,
we won’t notice all the times our experiences are pleasant.
But when we encounter the one who is less than friendly, we
declare it to be the truth about all cashiers. We talk about
how insulted we were, we tell our friends not to shop at that
store and we rehash the event over and over, magnifying our
feelings with each telling. This strengthens the vibration
that all cashiers are rude. The next time you go shopping
you will more likely gravitate past the five cashiers who
are pleasant and friendly to the one who is tired and having
a bad day. Even if she says nothing to you, you will be anticipating
some sort of insult and will probably find it.
5. Beliefs
A belief is a habit of thought.
It is a thought we keep thinking until it becomes a paradigm,
a filter, through which we view and relate to the world. Like
any thought, beliefs that limit us can be changed. The tricky
part is in recognizing our beliefs as thoughts about a thing
and not as the absolute, unchangeable truth about the thing.
A lot of our beliefs are below our level of conscious awareness.
“I can’t do that, I’m not skilled, talented,
rich, lucky enough”. “I have to work hard to make
money.” “Taxes eat up everything.” “Easy
come, easy go.” “No gain without pain.”
“Life is hard”. A friend of mine says she learned
from her parents that, “People like us. . “ usually
finished by, “always have to work hard”, “never
get a break”, “don’t have the means to travel”.
Those of us who think we’re
scientific use statistics to justify or ‘prove’
our beliefs. Yet, there is the quote by Mark Twain, “There
are three kinds of lies: there are lies, damn lies and statistics.”
We know statistics and even scientific experiments usually
show only what we expect to see. In quantum physics this is
called the ‘observer effect’. If we accept our
beliefs without question, we create our reality from them.
When we change the beliefs, we create our reality by choice
and through joy.
(Continued In Law Of Attraction Part 2...)
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