You Create Your Own Reality

People choose the eyes through which they view the world they live in. Meaning they choose their perceptions to create their own reality in this life. Their judgments on what is good or bad or right or wrong. I ask that we all look within and sit with the feelings in our hearts to determine our integrity with the origination of our feelings. These feelings are truly only created by our judgments of the world around us.

A friend brought to my attention this week the tragic shooting of a security guard in a place that was erected as a memorial to the holocaust of WWII. I can’t bear to perceive all the pain that this caused so many people. What I can do is choose the perceptions with which I view the scenario to lessen the pain, or my perceptions of pain. I have only to bear what is in front of me at the moment as every person I encounter in my day has so much to carry and I can only touch each person I encounter. Maybe this note will allow me to touch a greater number, suggesting a different way to possibly perceive a very tragic moment in our world, lessening its blows on the emotions of society.

In my own belief structure at this point I believe that God has a purpose for all things and that not even a blade of grass moves without His/Her knowingness and reason. We know nothing of other’s history and motivations in life and we constantly make judgments of what drives people to do what they do, when we really have no clue of God’s plan. So, we can deliberately choose a perception which creates more unity than separation, choosing the path of less pain. Saying it is our brother that created this act, or even some part of ourselves could have gone crazy with all the exploitations of violence in the world around us to drive us to absolutely insane actions. That person could be our self that has so many imbalances.

Rather than pointing fingers at others we should focus on creating more unity through our perceptions which will decrease the pain within ourselves that some of us feel when observing the world around us. It sometimes takes me weeks to change my perceptions, so there is a decrease in my consciousness of duality between myself and another. Upon achieving this there is less pain in my reality of being.

I’m happy I didn’t choose to play the role of some crazy person, ravaged by anger, due to overwhelming fear and misunderstanding and misplaced judgments of other cultures grouped together taken out on one person in a National Memorial.

How do you choose to view your world?

Do you want to create more pain and separation, or more peace and love?

With either perception, we still must observe the actions of others using our own discretion and looking within our hearts if we choose to be better witnesses of the world around us. Not to go out and preach, but to sit back and observe, taking the thorn from our own eyes, before we pull it out of our brothers. We do not know any part of God’s plan except He wants only good for us.

How do we reach for that “good”?

It is each and every one of our choices on the perceptions we want to hold in our minds to create varying sensations in our hearts which will create our perceptible reality.

Many blessings on your journey.

Dr. Samantha Joseph