What is “reality”?

Is reality:

• What you see with your eyes?
• What you hear with your ears?
• What you smell with your nose?
• What you feel with your touch?
• What you taste with your mouth?

If so, then how can everybody’s “reality” be different?

Growing up, we learn – from pretty much everywhere – that:

• “reality is objective”
• “time is linear”

I have come to learn both of those things are FALSE, and have replaced them with the following beliefs:

• reality is SUBJECTIVE
• time is SIMULTANEOUS

If you disagree, then consider my question above…

How can anyone’s “reality” be different? How can two people be in the same room, watching and listening to the same thing, and come away with completely different understandings of what happened, and both swearing THEIR version of reality is the “correct” one?

What does time have to do with it?

Time, like one’s reality is misunderstood.

We are taught time is in a line, and the past cannot be changed, the future cannot be seen, and all that we have is the present moment.

And yet, you are likely spending all your life doing one of the following:

• clinging
• craving
• aversion

Clinging: when you cling to something that “once was”

Craving: when you crave something you want “to be”

Aversion: when you move away from something you want to be “different”

If you are a human being, chances are you do one of the 3 above things.

And when you are doing one of those things, you are trying to live in the past, or trying to live in the future.

When you try to live anywhere but the present, you miss out on your life.

Because the REALITY is that the version of TIME you have been taught, is a LIE.

The REALITY is that you can CHOOSE what you want to experience, all by being in the PRESENT moment.

You are doing this already.

Unconsciously.

The REALITY you experience, is simply a REFLECTION of what your DOMINANT THOUGHTS are.

What do I mean by dominant thoughts?

I mean:

The things you think most strongly are true and think most often about an idea, is what will be reflected to you in your world.

Oftentimes, you may think the ideas you hold most near & dear to your heart, and deep in your mind, are YOURS.

You don’t like to think you hold ideas, some of the most IMPORTANT and CRITICAL ideas, are ones that were planted into your mind – Inception style – however, that IS the case.

You know how they say, you are the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with?

There is some truth to it, however, ask yourself what you do far more often than spend time with the 5 people you spend the most time with?

• listen to music
• watch tv
• watch movies
• scroll on social media

THOSE types of activities are REALLY what you are the sum of.

Hours and hours per day mindlessly being programmed by the message other creators choose to plant in your minds.

Artists, producers, content creators, writers, etc.

When you wake up in the morning, turn on your phone, and scroll…

When you go to bed at night binge watching that new show/movie…

When you hastily wish away your day by using music as an aid to mindlessly get you through boring tasks…

You are outsourcing the creator role in your life to other creators.

You are letting OTHER PEOPLE choose YOUR reality.

Why would you do that?

Do you actually LIKE your reality?

If you’re like most people, you strongly DISLIKE your reality and may even have a host of issues that relate to:

• your mental health
• money
• relationships

And yet, you keep consuming content that shapes your REALITY in a negative way.

Remember what I said before?

“The REALITY you experience, is simply a REFLECTION of what your DOMINANT THOUGHTS are”.

And the hours and hours and hours of repetitively and mindlessly consuming this content, is what is shaping your reality.

It’s what’s contributing to you thinking you have so many problems.

It’s what’s giving you the roadblocks and barriers you experience.

These are mental limitations that were installed in your mind because you’ve left it open to being programmed by other creators.

Because you FORGOT that YOU are God of your reality and that you can apply the EXACT SAME PRINCIPLES that have convinced you your reality is so negative and difficult, and allow you to REPLACE IT with a NEW REALITY.

A reality where your life is:

• easy
• fun
• effortless
• lucky
• in flow

Don’t believe me?

Start MINDFULLY consuming what you already do.

Take mental notes of what words you hear in the songs you listen to, and repeat back to yourself by reading lyrics and singing the words out loud.

Take mental notes of what you see, read, hear on the tv shows and movies you watch.

Do the same for the reels and videos you see on tiktok & instagram.

Then take note of how these things make you FEEL and the THOUGHTS you are experiencing while consuming these things.

Take an honest inventory of these things.

And I can GUARANTEE you – you will soon learn where your REALITY came from.

You will soon learn where your LIMITING BELIEFS came from.

You will soon learn where your IDEA OF WHAT “NOBLE” IS came from.

You will soon learn where your idea of what EVIL is came from.

And then you will realize EXACTLY why your REALITY is the way it is.

You will realize that your REALITY was installed in your mind, like tiktok was installed on your phone from the App Store.

This is GOOD.

AWARENESS is good.

After you REALIZE these things, you will be able to CHANGE your REALITY.

Notice something there?

Look at these two words:

REALIZE

REALITY

They have the same latin root: rēs.

This root means to “understand the idea of things that exist and understand them as such”.

In older times, the word “reality” meant “to make real” or to “bring into existence”, and it has later morphed into meaning to “understanding something as true”.

There’s a lot to break down there:

Realize & Reality sharing the same latin root is telling. Is it a coincidence? Zero chance. Remember: the root means to “understand the idea of things that exist”. REALIZE your REALITY.

AKA: Have awareness of the things that exist. You can start by doing the activity I shared above, taking inventory of the things you regularly consume.

I’ve talked a lot about how REALITY is what you choose it to be – the programs you install / allow to be installed in your mind. And how it is SUBJECTIVE rather than OBJECTIVE.

Notice how that is true and can be seen even in the simple definition of what the word REALITY even means, and how it used to mean one thing, and now it means another thing.

The simple act of changing the definition of a word should PROVE to you reality is SUBJECTIVE, because, if it were objective, how could the definition of a word change?

Wouldn’t it be the same over time, no matter what? And they just changed it for what reason? Perhaps to keep you UNAWARE of your true POWER – that your REALITY is in YOUR hands – and it’s VERY different than they tell you it is on tv, in movies, in music, and on tiktok/instagram.

How will you change YOUR reality? Do you have the courage to take responsibility of YOUR reality and make it what you want, and install the programs YOU want so that YOU can experience it each day of your life?

The choice is yours…