Your Thoughts Contribute To Your Circumstances
“Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.”—Eckhart Tolle
Look around you. Are you happy with your current conditions? Are you content with your health, relationships, career, finances, and general purpose in life? I realize these are difficult questions to answer since they require an honest look into ourselves. However, if we don’t take the time to examine what we’re creating, we’re bound to get swept up by our unconscious desires. Our consciousness and level of awareness shape everything in our world. This is empowering for several reasons, the least of which is if we don’t like what shows up, we can change our thoughts to create new circumstances. For example, have you experienced an unexpected situation that pushed you out of your comfort zone, whether it was a sudden relationship breakup or getting looked over for a job promotion?
Whatever the case, you may have felt victimized and believed life conspired against you. Yet, how can life be against us when we embody life itself? Why would life want to hurt us? Is life evil or external to us? Moreover, why would the same intelligence that created us want to inflict pain and suffering on us? These questions help me to understand that life isn’t against us as much as we are against ourselves. Perhaps it is our thoughts that contribute to our circumstances. When unforeseen conditions arise, instead of being frustrated or angry, we ought to be curious about what contributed to them. Where in our past did we allow our present-day circumstances to be as they are? I repeat this Hermetic aphorism often in my articles because it captures the essence of our ability to create our reality: “As within so without.” What we think and feel at the deepest level of our consciousness is bound to show up in our reality, whether we like it or not.
Develop A Better Filter In Which To Perceive Your Reality
“In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
Our consciousness is the home for all our thoughts. It houses everything we ever felt, believed, or experienced about the world. It is the accumulation of our childhood memories, disappointments, and joys. As adults, our experiences are referenced by our consciousness and storehouse of memories imprinted onto the canvas of our mind. Just like a supercomputer, our mind does the same to decide whether our current experience corresponds with what we know to be true. Here, truth refers to experience and not necessarily The Truth. This means you may have had a negative experience in the past, which your consciousness identifies as your truth. If it appears again, your consciousness is familiar with it because it does not have the direct experience of good or bad until your conscious mind adds meaning to it.
Are you comfortable with this idea that life happens at the level of your consciousness? It is essential to understand that our beliefs have the power to shape our reality. What we hold to be true will inevitably reflect in our lives. After all, thoughts become things, and what we think about, we bring about. This is why healing can be a long and exhausting process that may take years if not decades. Healing requires peeling back the layers of conditioning to shift to a higher level of consciousness. We cannot rush the process any more than asking a 10-month-old child to sprint when it is still learning to walk. The child will run at their own pace, and no two children are alike. The same experience exists throughout our consciousness, so we develop an enhanced filter to perceive reality when we are ready. It is why we often look back on the past and wonder why we felt a certain way about an experience, such as the breakup of a relationship. The heartache may have been too much to bear, but our recollection of the experience has faded a decade later. Have you experienced such moments, whether it was related to a relationship, a career, or a different situation?
Albert Einstein once said: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” I value the simplicity and complexity of the quote because consciousness is everything. My level of mind ten years ago is not the same mind writing these words on the screen today. I have learned new things, gained new experiences, and transcended limitations, and so will you. Considering this, I invite you to examine your current reality by undertaking the following exercise. Divide your life into seven headings on top of a page and label them as:
- Life View
- Relationships
- Health & Well-Being
- Finances
- Career
- Attitudes & Beliefs
- Emotions
Under each category, write down what is happening in your experience and score it from 0 to 10. Zero indicates undesirable, and ten indicates highly desirable. The exercise should take only 10 minutes but will give you a portrait of your current level of consciousness. Try the exercise every six months and evaluate where you stand. Have you improved, or is your score still the same? In the long run, if we want to change the future, we should be aware of what is happening beneath the surface of our minds. Unfortunately, our thoughts and beliefs remain invisible until they manifest via our chosen actions and experiences. However, the more attuned you become to your inner dialogue, the greater your power to shape a fulfilling and transformative reality through your awakened consciousness.
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