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What is Knowing?

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The key to knowing is to recognize that for the most part, we know far less than we think.

Knowing how little we know is extremely important.  Why?  Because there will always be something new to learn.  There are new experiences to be had.  New people to be met.

How many languages do you speak?  Do you know how to fence with a sword in each hand?  Can you drive a semi-truck?  Have you traveled to Australia?  There is always something we might know, but by the same token there is likely more that we do not know.

Too many people think they know a lot.  Maybe you do.  But the real importance of knowing is recognizing that no matter how much you know, there is plenty more you do not.

Many people think that the idea behind enlightenment is knowing everything.  But that’s not what it’s about.  No, gaining enlightenment is about becoming one with mind, body and spirit…becoming aware of the now, and losing fear and anxiety.

Every single one of us has various things we know.  Since you are reading this, you know how to read and write.  Likely you know how to speak.  You know what name you call yourself, and in the general sense of placement where you are in the world.

The thing is, for all that we know, there is an equal or greater amount that we don’t.  Trouble is, when people think they are knowing, they sometimes begin to believe that they know better.

Knowledge is power.  But this is a power of abundance, and as such need not be hoarded or jealously guarded and protected.  Knowledge in its vast abundance is meant to be shared.

How do we really know something?

While there is much we do not know, and more to be learned and experienced, most of us do possess things that we know.

However, the things that we really know are much more personal and individual that we tend to realize.  We think we know certain external matters, such as politics, business, economics, religion and so forth.  However, what we truly know are not these great abstracts, but rather our own impressions and perceptions of them.

If you come from a deeply religious family, you probably know the religion you practice.  If you are entrenched in politics, you probably know the party you are affiliated with.  But more specifically, you know your particular version of this, defined by your own impressions of and experiences with it.

What we really know is just a small slice of reality, which we know is much more of an illusion than we probably care to admit.  Nobody is in your head but you, and as such you alone think, feel, and sense the world around you as you do.

What do we each really know?

That’s dependent on a number of factors.  Sure, we think we know ourselves, but how many of us are mostly only scratching the surface of that?  How many of us question our own thoughts, feelings and actions because of a lack of knowing?

But this does not mean we know nothing at all. (“You know nothing, John Snow!”)

We can really know things, and that is surprisingly easy to recognize.  The things we really know are strictly about ourselves, who we are, what we are, and so on.  We find that our mind, body, and spirit are in harmony in that knowledge, and our thoughts, feelings and actions constantly reinforce that knowledge.  That is how we really know something.  But the only real something we can ever truly know is ourselves.

Are we really capable of knowing?

In a broad, general sense, yes.  But in truth, for as much as we know about the people in our lives, the world that we live in, and the Universe in which we exist, we truly know very, very little.

But this is a really good thing.  Why?  Because this means that there is always more for us to learn.  There are new discoveries to be made, experiences to be had, and much more.

Consciousness creates reality.  When we truly learn to know ourselves, the one thing in the entire universe that we are capable of really, genuinely knowing, we can change our lives.  The knowledge of ourselves, how we think, what we feel, and the intent behind our actions, can build our reality.  When we know ourselves, really know ourselves, we gain a wider perspective.

Yes, I know that some might think this is selfish.  That’s untrue, because this is not about denying others for yourself from a place of lack and scarcity.  What this entails is realizing our own abundance, and exploring what we can do with it.  Abundance means there is more than enough for all, and when we see that we are each more than enough, we can more easily and happily share that.  How can so much sharing possibly be selfish?

Many of those in power are so afraid of losing the control they so desperately desire, they will do anything to disempower those around them.  No, boasting about our own greatness to everyone is narcissistic and unhealthy…but being aware of our greatness, and sharing that to help others find the same improves the whole world.

Does learning lead to knowing?

When it comes to ourselves, the only thing we truly can really know, yes.  Our minds, bodies and souls only we each individually can know.  Nobody but you is in your heart, your head or your spirit.  As such, this is the only real knowing we are capable of.

But in recognizing this, we can better see that the things we can learn and know are fleeting and changeable.  Because the world is always changing.  As such, so too is knowing what we know.

Once upon a time, everybody knew the world was flat, and you would fall off at the horizon.  Now everybody knows the earth is round (sorry, Flat Earthers, but it is).  Everybody knew the earth was the center of the galaxy.  Now, we know that at the galaxy’s center is the sun.  Knowing changes.

This is a good thing.  Why?  Because it means that things as we “know” them now, but which we would rather not experience, we can change.  The world as we “know” it can be altered for the better.  How incredible is that?

Do you see how much more knowing we are capable of by knowing ourselves first?

This is the three-hundred fifty-seventh entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way, and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share this.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.

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What if I am Just Not Feeling It?

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I’m doing all that I can, but I am just not feeling it.

For more than four-and-a-half years, I have written about Positivity here, every week, without fail.  Over the past week a number of happenings have left me feeling mostly angry, sad, and not positive.

A madman shot up a synagogue, and the unsympathetic President blamed the victims.  Another madman sent out bombs to prominent opponents of the President, but since they are his opponents, it’s no big deal far as he’s concerned.  There was yet another madman who murdered two people because of the color of their skin.  This level of hate and negativity is really overwhelming.

Find positivity?  I am just not feeling it.

On a more personal front, there are loved ones of friends and family in pain and dying, and I am feeling for all of them.  The anger, sadness, frustration, and helplessness of this is also contributing to how I am not feeling it.

I know that it is impossible to feel positive all the time.  We’re human.  Things will happen that will cause us to wind up not feeling it, and rather than find and hold onto positivity, we are going to be overwhelmed by negativity.

This is not something we can avoid, and as a part of the human condition, it’s not something we can, or frankly should, deny.  It’s going to happen.

What’s important, however, is to acknowledge it, and not let it linger for too long.  Be mad, sad, frustrated, hurt, and so forth.  But don’t actively draw more to you…and don’t berate yourself when you do.

Am I the only one who does that?  When I am not feeling it, and don’t live up to my ideals?  I am guessing no.  But if so…I need to quit that.

It’s ok if I am just not feeling it.

Plain and simple, it’s ok to be feeling this way.  But so long as I recognize it, I can work to release it and move past it.  That is one of the most amazing things about us human beings that there is.  We are totally capable of shifting our feelings.

There is a great deal of complexity associated with our feelings.  Because of this, we are capable of changing our emotional state.  So while it’s completely normal to feel negative emotions, we get to choose for how long we will hold onto them.

So maybe I am not feeling it right now…but that is ok.  I need to accept it, not feel that I am failing because of it.  Take a deep breath, and move past it.

This is me not being defeated by forces I cannot control overpowering those I can.  I can accept it, then move past it.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that it is alright if I am just not feeling it, I can allow for it, and not get annoyed with myself for letting it happen.  When we allow ourselves to experience the negative feelings we will have, we also give ourselves the chance to change them, and from that we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-seventh entry of my Positivity series.  It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone.  Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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What if I Suck at This?

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You have permission to suck.

A lot of people feel that they need to always succeed, always win, always get it right.  However, that is, in truth, impossible.  Things will not work out as planned, outside influences will change how a process works, or some other unexpected thing will interfere.  Hopefully it all goes as you want…but there are times where, no matter what you are doing, it won’t.

Accept it for what it is.  But maybe more importantly than that, allow yourself to suck.

While you have permission to suck, this is not carte blanche for you to do a half-assed job, or to give less than one-hundred percent to consciously create reality, or anything else you are doing.  No, this is permission to accept that on your path, you may not always be awesome.  You will screw up, you may find yourself not fully capable of achieving what you seek to, and you will simply suck sometimes.

What does this mean?  It means that even though you are making the effort, you are allowed to suck.  Nobody but you expects you to be totally perfect.  As such, you are permitted to be imperfect, and even to suck at whatever you may be working on doing.

This is not an easy notion for a lot of us.  We believe that we have to do it well, do it right, and that we can’t suck at it.  Yet no matter what actions we may be taking, there are going to be times that we are imperfect.  We are not going to get it right, and likely someone is going to determine that we suck.

And that is the real crux of this.  Nobody sets out to get it wrong.  More often than not, we really didn’t.

You may be permitted to suck…but really, you don’t

Most of the times that we feel that we suck, it’s not actually about us.  It is really about how we think other people around us are perceiving us.

Sucking is a perceptional thing.  We generally apply it to other people, in response to things they are doing.  Seldom do we apply it to ourselves, save in self-deprecation, whether serious or humorous.  And to be blunt, we shouldn’t.

Unless you are intentionally doing something half-assed, without energy, or poorly, you do not suck.  You may not get it right in the eyes of other people…but you cannot change that, either.  You have ZERO control over how other people perceive you.

We human beings have a REALLY hard time wrapping our minds around this notion.  We believe that the impression we make on other people is important, and as such tend to strive for approval.  Nobody wants to be disliked, thought of badly, or otherwise dismissed.

Yet in reality, what matters most is how we treat ourselves.  Along that line, how we think of ourselves matters a great deal.

This is not selfish.  Yes, it may feel selfish, in especial if you believe that you need to give of yourself all that you have, and more, to be the best person that you can be.  But if you believe that you suck, and that you are worthless and a failure, where are you actually giving from?  Do you have enough to truly share, or are you sacrificing to be so giving?

Sacrifice is not noble.  Nor is it a reflection of whether you are a good and deserving person or not.  No, sacrifice is a message of lack, and tells the Universe that since you believe there is not enough, you can do without.

That is unnecessary.

Permit yourself to suck…because you don’t

We are going to mess up.  We are going to make mistakes.  Each and every one of us is going to screw things up, and someone is going to judge that, as such, we suck.  That’s ok…because nobody is perfect.  If you have done your best, and put in all the effort that you can, you are permitted to suck.

But what is more important to recognize is that you don’t.

I know that you expect a lot from yourself.  You believe that if you don’t represent as you should, you are not worthy.  It is important that you should know that you are amazing, and that you are worthy and deserving of all accolades, accomplishments, and successes you earn along the way.  You don’t suck.

Nobody is perfect.  That’s a general aspect of the human condition for us all.  We are perfectly imperfect in our own ways.  But unless we don’t truly make an effort, go in half-assed or half-heartedly, or actively seek to do a bad job, we are worthy and deserving.

There are people outside of us who will disagree.  In their estimation we are not worthy, or deserving.  That’s their opinion…and in truth, it doesn’t matter.  You cannot please everyone, so why bother?  Are you doing your best?  Giving your best efforts?  Putting in work and energy and heart and soul?

Are you being true to you?  Because that is what matters most.

Consciousness creates reality.  Our thoughts, empowered by our feelings, motivating our intentional actions, build astonishing things.  We deserve them all.

Yes, you have permission to suck.  Because the truth of the matter is, you really don’t.  You are a deserving, worthwhile person…and I believe in you.

Believe in yourself.

Can you see that while you have permission to suck, you don’t?

This is the three-hundred fifty-sixth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way, and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share this.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.

After more than 6 years of Pathwalking, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

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Can Creativity Improve the World?

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Creativity is an amazing power we each possess.

Our unique ability to make our world; to build; invent; evolve; to start from a raw idea and conjure an amazing construct is incredible.  While we have observed other creatures on this world capable of building and using tools, none has shown the skills and creativity we have to imagine and create wonders.

We take so many aspects of our world for granted.  From the smallest things like running water and electricity for our homes, to the supermarkets where we can buy food from around the world.  Beyond that, we have instant worldwide communications, and the cloud and its seemingly endless amount of data storage; all of these things were our creation.

No matter how difficult things may seem, no matter how rough and unbelievable stories we read are, our creativity is endless.  And that is something to feel positive about.  We have the ability to make this world better.

Creativity can be expressed in any number of ways.  We can design and build things on any level, whether microscopic or gargantuan.  The possibilities of the human mind to create are only limited by our imaginations.  I know a lot of what is going on these days makes that seem impossible, but it is still true, and that is hugely positive.

Our ability to create increases our options.  Life is not just about either/or.  There is almost never only one way to deal with a given situation.  There is nearly always another option, another choice, some other possibility.  We do not live in a world of black and white and extremes, we live in a world bound pretty much only by what we can imagine, and from there what we create.

Creativity frequently changes the world

Look at what we have created over the centuries.  From the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Gutenberg Printing Press to the steam engine to the airplane to rockets to microcomputers, we have used our creativity to build a world for ourselves that is incomparable.  We have evolved our means artificially with fantastic inventions, all brought forth by creative minds.

We were once hunter/gathers, traveling to different places during different seasons both to track game and to avoid weather extremes.  Now we are resident in climates that are nearly inhospitable for months at a time.  This is all due to our extraordinary creativity.

No matter how small you are feeling, no matter how bad a day you might be having, think about all the possibility of the world around you.  Whether matters change and improve in an hour, a day, a week, or a month, we have the ability to use our creativity to make our world a better place.  We have creativity to allow us to better our lives.  We are capable of creating virtually anything for ourselves.

Don’t lose hope.  Consciousness creates reality.  We can create a better world.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that you have the creative spark within you to imagine, discover and build a better life for yourself, you can lift your spirits.  When use our creativity to build better things, and work from a place of positivity, we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-sixth entry of my Positivity series.  It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone.  Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

After more than 6 years of weekly blogging, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

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Five Steps to Change our Emotions

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Each of us has the ability to change our emotions.

Yes, I know that this seems like a lie, but that doesn’t make it any less true.  We are each able to control how we are feeling.  You and I have the ability to change our emotions.

It’s important that we recognize several facts about how emotions work, and how we are able to make changes to them.

First – yes, things will happen outside of ourselves that will impact how we feel.  Someone cuts you off on the road, a news article infuriates you, someone you love passes away, you get dumped, and so-on and so-forth.  Any one of these things will cause you to feel a certain emotion.  There will be a visceral reaction, and you’ll find you experience a specific feeling.

Second – yes, this feels like we cannot control the emotion.  I know how this feels.  Something happens, and you start feeling how you feel.  You made me sad and that made me angry and I feel hopeless are all reactions to stimuli, and totally valid emotions to have after something has happened.

Third – yes, this feels like you cannot control it…except that you CAN.  You and I each get a choice in these matters.  Sure, outside stimuli made us feel a certain way.  BUT, once it has happened, how long we allow the feeling to linger is entirely our choice.  We decide how long to allow this feeling to hang on.

Please note – I am in no way invalidating anyone’s feelings.  If you grieve the loss of a loved one, I’m not saying you should “get over it” or such.  However, I am pointing out that you can still choose how you are feeling…and more importantly, actions you may be taking because of those feelings.

How can we change our emotions?

Consciousness creates reality.  In order to do this, we need to begin with thought, empower it with feeling, and then take an intentional action to make it so.

When we are feeling a way we would rather not be feeling, there are five specific steps, actions we can take, to change our emotions.  This is not in any way guaranteed, but any creation being made manifest requires action.

The five steps to change our emotions are:

Ask : How am I feeling? Don’t just think this, ASK it.  Get clear on the specific emotion(s) you are experiencing at this moment.  You’d be surprised how often we neglect this.
Ask : How do I desire to feel? How do you want to feel?  I know that if I am feeling negative, I would prefer to feel positive.
Quiet the mind – We need to reflect on what has brought us to this state, what made us feel what we are feeling, in order to adjust it. This could take just a moment’s pause, or may require a lengthier meditation.
Release – Rather than hold onto the emotion you do not desire, you have to take an action to release it. Wave it goodbye, thank it for protecting you, visualize it sinking into the ground or flying away.  Whatever you do, there needs to be some sort of mental or physical act.
Take action – You choose the emotion you would prefer to feel, and take some sort of action to replace what you don’t desire. That action could be a brisk walk, a brief cry, a primal scream, singing a song, finding something that makes you laugh, etc.  Action is absolutely necessary to drive any change.  Action is a fundamental building bock of conscious reality creation.

Why should we change our emotions?

It is true that in order to know the good, we have to know the bad.  To recognize positive emotions, we need to know negative emotions.  This is a universal truth.  But when it comes to negativity, allowing it to linger tends to draw more negatives to us.

Like attracts like.  This is what the Law of Attraction tells us.  When we focus on something, we tend to draw more to us.  Ergo, if you are feeling bad, the longer you hold onto it, the more bad feeling you will draw to yourself.

More importantly, do you enjoy feeling bad?  Does anyone?  We live in a complicated, fear-based society frequently focused on lack and scarcity.  Negative feelings disempower us.  They lower our vibrational frequencies, and open us up to finding more things to feel down about.

On the other side of the same coin, positive feelings empower us.  The raise our vibrational frequencies, and open us up to finding more things to feel up about.

It’s important to recognize that things are going to happen both in and out of our control which will evoke emotions.  We are feeling creatures, this is a part of our nature.  Yet we have a choice to decide which of our emotions linger, how they might affect us, and what they cause us to gain or lose.

We can change our emotions.  These five steps are tools we have in order to take actions that will shift our thoughts and feelings.  When we act, especially with intention, we consciously create change.

I am not denying that this can be difficult.  It’s not easy to control emotions.  Feelings are intense and powerful.  But we can choose to shift our frequency, and improve the reality each of us calls our own.

Do you see how we can all change our emotions to empower ourselves?

This is the three-hundred fifty-fifth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life to consciously create reality.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way, and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share this.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.

After more than 6 years of Pathwalking, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my blog.  Fill in the info and click the submit button below and receive your free eBook.  Thank you!

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How Do Want and Desire Differ?

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There is a surprisingly substantial difference between want and desire.

Want is based in lack.  One of its definitions, from dictionary.com is to be without, or deficient in.  Want comes from a place of lack and scarcity.  It is a statement that implies that there is not enough, that you have gone without because that which you want there is not enough of.

Further, that implies that if you get what you want, it will not be enough.  You will still be wanting, because of the lack and insufficiency.

Desire is based in prosperity.  One of its definitions, from dictionary.com, is to express a wish to obtain; ask for; request.  Desire comes from a place of abundance.  It is a statement that implies that there is more than enough, that you can have that which you desire because there is more than enough.

Further, that implies that if you get what you desire, it will make you feel good.  You will feel satisfied, because of the abundance and sufficiency.

Want and desire, as such, differ on a fundamental level.  While want is negative, desire is positive.  Want comes from lack, desire comes from abundance.  The feeling want evokes is one of longing, and a sense of deficit.   The feeling desire evokes is one of satisfaction, and a sense of prosperity.

Words matter.  It is imperative to choose wisely, because when what you say or think is negative, it tends to draw negativity to you.  Conversely, when what you say or think is positive, it tends to draw positivity to you.  I think we can all agree the world could use a lot more positivity nowadays.

Want and desire are the same, but different

When we recognize the difference between want and desire, we can see where our mindset tends to be.  Knowing our minds can help us to be better in touch with our emotions.  Thought, feelings and actions are the tools by which consciousness creates reality.  If we are not conscious of the reality we create, we still create reality through our subconscious.

Hence why it is so important to choose not just the words we say, but the words we hold in our thoughts.  When we are thinking about something we are wanting, it is a statement of negativity.  On the other hand, when we are thinking about something we are desiring, it is a statement of positivity.  How we think can be as important as what we think.

It is difficult to guard our every thought.  We have so many things dividing our attention, it’s no wonder we frequently feel overwhelmed.  And just to add insult to injury, our society is one that is fear-based, and frequently bursting at the seams with negativity.

You can’t change society.  More specifically, you cannot change the big picture without changing the smaller pictures.  That means that you and I need to change our approaches to the world.  When we recognize the difference between want and desire, lack and abundance, fear and courageousness, we can decide to choose for the better, and work with more positivity.

The language we use, whether in thought or speech, impacts what we create in this world.  Why not choose stronger, positive words to build a stronger, positive world?

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that the difference between want and desire is working from lack versus working from abundance, we can choose the better word to create better things.  When we create better things, and work from a place of positivity, we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-fifth entry of my Positivity series.  It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone.  Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

After more than 6 years of weekly blogging, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my blog.  Fill in the info and click the submit button below and receive a free eBook.

Thank you!

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Consciousness Creates Reality, for Real?

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Consciousness creates reality because all of our perceptions of reality are unique.

Whether you buy into this notion or not, that doesn’t make it any less true.  Yes, I recognize that this may come across as hooky-spooky craziness, but let me present you a different perspective.

Do you like our present reality?  I know that it’s entirely possible that you do, and if that is so, rock on!  But if you are dissatisfied with the reality you live in, you have three choices.

Just accept it, get on a tube and float down the river with the current.
Give in, let yourself sink into the river and wait to be drowned.
Do what you can to change it, and go for a swim in the river, with or against the current.

Some argue that this is just fate.  Consciousness creates reality is a bullshit concept, life is what it is and you cannot change that.  Others will argue that reality creates consciousness, so just go with it and accept that happiness and being content with life are fleeting.  I argue that consciousness creates reality, we have a choice, and we can do things to change reality to our liking.

It is important to accept a couple truths here.  First, everybody’s perception of reality is different.  If this were not the case, we would not disagree so vehemently about the things that we do.  Equality of gender, sex, race, religion and such would be a non-issue if we all perceived reality the same.  We would all find the same sights, sounds, tastes, smells and sensations to be similiar if our perception were the same.

Second, reality is colored by experience.  The things we have seen, done, and otherwise experienced in this life will change our individual view of reality.

Why Consciousness Creates Reality

Why does consciousness create reality?  Because, in the simple abstract derived from the two truths above, our perception and experience is going to make our reality real for us.

What is consciousness?  It is your awareness, your senses, your thoughts and feelings.  Consciousness is perception, recognition, knowledge.  This is arguably what makes each of us who we are.

What is reality?  Without getting into a philosophical debate on the subject, this is a thing that is real.  When it comes to reality this is the tangibles such as people and things we encounter.  It also covers the intangible, like oxygen, subatomic particles and the like.  Reality is existence, substance, actuality.  This is the world we live in, but which is entirely outside of ourselves.

What does it mean to create?  This is building, constructing, making a thing become real.  Whether it is a mathematical theory or a car, we are creators.  Creation is conceiving, designing, inventing, producing.  This is the process we use to build things that are both material and immaterial for ourselves on many different levels.

This means that perception and experience designs and produces existence, that which is real.  This is how we get mankind onto the moon; communicate across the globe instantly; have these amazing devices that connect us; and we have the ability to learn, to grow, and to build new and better as time goes on.

This is why consciousness creates reality.  Because each and every one of us is endowed with the empowerment to forge the world we desire for ourselves.  We are only powerless when we allow ourselves to be disempowered.

Further, I don’t know about you, but I prefer to see a world where this is plausible, rather than a world where we are merely victims of circumstance.

How Consciousness Creates Reality

How does consciousness create reality?  Because our awareness, our understanding and perception gives birth to substance.  Whether it is something observable or something imperceptible, we can build it.  Every single one of us is so empowered.

World leaders, whether political, spiritual, educational, business, or what-have-you, have tended to jealously guard this knowledge.   Why?  Historically, this is because they fear that rather than the Universe being abundant, there is lack, scarcity, and insufficiency.  A pie with limited slices, so why share?  Further, they fear that the power they have would evaporate if we were empowered.

There have been leaders that shared empowerment, rather than feared it.  They knew that empowering the people could create more than not doing so.

So how does this work?  It starts very small.  Individually, in our own perception of reality, we can choose to shape our reality.  Rather than standing against and reacting to things we do not desire, we need to act consciously for that which we do desire.  Instead of getting bogged down in the negative, we need to seek out the positive.

We cannot change the reality of the world at large if we do not begin by changing our own personal reality.  To do so, we need to be aware of what we are thinking, how we are feeling, and actions we are taking from there.  In this way, we can impact the reality we live in, and take actions to build it better.

You and I cannot change how others do things, and whether they see their reality as positive or negative.  However, we can change ourselves, and our own approach to life, the universe and everything.  When we make such choices, we empower ourselves to consciously create a desirable and better reality.

Can you see how consciousness creates reality, and what you are capable of doing with that knowledge?

This is the three-hundred fifty-fourth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way, and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share.

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How Do We Not Lose Hope?

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Don’t lose hope.  I know that the world looks bleak right now, but we can still change it.

Yes, there is some pretty awful stuff happening in the world around us.  Terrible people are doing terrible things; threatening to take away rights; disempowering and disenfranchising all for their own interests; shredding the very fabric of our society.  It feels terrible, it is scary and unpleasant and infuriating, and holding onto hope is pretty damned challenging.

The lunatics in “power” want you to lose hope.  If they can take away your hope, they believe that they will gain more control.  They know that hope drives the opposition, so if they can remove it, they believe that they can gain greater control.

This is why they utilize fear, and sell lack and scarcity, because courage, love, and abundance are all drivers of hope.  Hope is positivity, because it is an expressing of a belief that we can have better than we have now.

We are worthy and deserving of a world where rape culture is a thing of the past.  You are worthy and deserving of a world where skin color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, or what-have-you are all treated equally.

We can still build this world…if we don’t lose hope.

Hope, thoughts, feelings and actions

If we allow our thoughts to fall to hopelessness, and to then make us feel bad about the world as it is right now, then we will most likely continue to live in this world.  Consciousness creates reality.  Thought leads to feeling.  If you think we are all totally screwed and that the world is doomed, is it any surprise we feel hopeless?  Is it any wonder that we feel like we have no control?

What do you think those in power want?  Control.  When they make us feel as if they have taken that away, they think they gain it.  This is why they desire for us to lose hope.  Control.

There are elections coming up.  We can take positive actions to support the opponents of these terrible people, and take away their power.  There are protests, boycotts, rallies, and other ways to build up hope and create change to gain back our power.

The thing to keep in mind is that the only real power is our own empowerment.  Everything else is artifice, created by outside forces in some form or other.  Take a Congressman out of office and he ceases to have power beyond his or her own.

What we think about and then feel into we tend to manifest.  In particular, because we then take actions that will help that along.  When we allow ourselves to lose hope, we give away our ability to create a better world.  We need to keep that in mind as we read the news and various other media.

Hope is a complicated feeling

I know this is really rough right now.  A lot of people have been shown that our so-called leadership cares for nobody and nothing but their own rather selfish interests.  It is easy to lose hope, and believe that the world we live in is heading straight to hell in a handbasket.

Choose hope.  Decide to work on your own empowerment, and fight back.  We will not go quietly and just let them erode our rights for their own privilege.  Take a stand, get everyone you know who is angry to get out there and VOTE.  Don’t like the options?  Volunteer, do whatever you can…hell, run for office.  Be empowered, and let’s show them their power is truly an illusion, and what hope can do.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that they want us to lose hope so that they can disempower us, we can use hope to effect change in the world.  When we have hope, we have the ability to create new and better things, and thus we empower ourselves.  When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings.  We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings.  When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for.  Gratitude leads to happiness.  Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-fourth entry of my Positivity series.  It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone.  Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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Awareness for Everyone

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It is with great pleasure that I announce the first episode of my podcast – Awareness for Everyone – is LIVE.

I am super-excited to be starting this new path, and this new project.  Please check out my podcast, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Thank you for your continued support!

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Can Distractions be Both Good and Bad?

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Distractions can be pretty unavoidable.  They can also be both detrimental and helpful.  Recognizing the good distractions from the bad is important.

I often joke that I suffer ADOS – Attention Deficit Ooooooooooooo, Shiny Disorder.  This is borne of my attention being drawn away from one focus to another, sometimes really easily.

Distractions come in many forms.  Some are, without a doubt, good.  But more often than not, I find them to be bad.

Bad distractions, for me at any rate, come in two different forms.  These include inattention in the now, and self-sabotage.

Inattention in the now distractions

These distractions happen because I am letting my mind wander. Rather than be in the here-and-now, the mind wanders to the past or the future.

It is far too easy to think about past actions, good and bad, rather than to be in the now.  Recalling actions that we may or may not have taken can really pull us away.

It is important to note that I am in no way advocating for forgetting the past.  Quite the opposite, we need to learn from our past, if we desire to grow as individuals.  Denying the past or pretending it didn’t happen is not an option, despite current events.

Because we strive to make change and reach goals, it is equally easy to get lost in future thoughts.  For example, I am going to desire to replace my car.  So long as I am looking ahead at this possibility, it’s going to remain ahead.  In especial if I am awaiting certain external factors over which I have no control.

Both of these distractions cause my mind to wander from being here and now.  As Einstein pointed out, time is an illusion.  As such, the only time that is real is this moment, right here, right now.  Thus, it is in this moment we need to be focused to accomplish growth.

Consciousness creates reality.  To truly utilize this, and align my thoughts, feelings and intentional actions, I need to be working in the now. The past cannot be changed, and as Yoda said, “Always in motion is the future.”  While what we do can have an impact on the future, we can accomplish far more by keeping our attention in the now.

A wandering mind easily loses focus.

Self-sabotage distractions

I have a particular talent for sabotaging myself.  I have written about this many times in the past, but it is rooted in some old, deep fears.  The fear is primal: the fear of abandonment.  Succeed, fail, do amazing or screw-up royally, I will be abandoned.  The fear that nobody will be there for me, nobody will care is powerful, painful, and scary.

This is a completely irrational fear.  Despite that knowledge, I still find this hard to shake.  As such, because I am afraid, I will find distractions to avoid getting where I desire to go in this life.

When I should be writing or editing, whether it’s my blog or fiction, I let the internet distract me.  Facebook, Google Plus, e mail and other online distractions draw me away from doing work, and instead I goof off.

Then, when I realize that I have done this, I get annoyed with myself.  This leads to feeling bad…and consciousness creates reality, so it draws me away from manifesting what I have sought to do.

Rather than experience the unfamiliar, potentially awesome or awful, I sabotage myself, stay in the place where I have comfort, but desire for greater.  This comfort zone is familiar, sure…but it is not where I wish to remain.

This is an ongoing struggle for me.  I greatly desire to make changes in my life. There is more that I am capable of accomplishing in this life, and I desire to make it happen.  So, I need to work on being more present here-and-now, and not letting myself sabotage myself with distractions.

There are good distractions

Sometimes we need good distractions.  When we are under a tremendous amount of stress, or suffering from anxiety or depression, we can make use of distractions to shake up our moods.

It’s easy to identify good distractions from bad.  Bad distractions pull us out of the here-and-now, by either drawing us to the past, the future, or creating an environment for the mind to wander without focus.  Good distractions, however, bring us into the now.  They get us out of the negative and create positivity, so that we can be centered and balanced.

Because it is impossible not to have bad days, and to experience negativity, all we can do is work to overcome the bad.  It will happen, it is unavoidable – but you and I can choose how long we will hold onto it, and let it effect our lives.

Recognizing bad distractions from good can help us be focused more in the now.  When we live in the now, we are more capable of manifesting the lives we want.  Yes, it is seldom easy…but I know I prefer a life that I have created from my own desires over just accepting mediocrity.

What distractions do you experience?

This is the three-hundred fifty-third entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life.  I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way, and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me.  Feel free to re-blog and share.

The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.

After more than 6 years of Pathwalking, I have launched a Patreon to garner support for these works, and more.

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