Thoughts Create Reality

School holidays are about to start in the UK and are entering their final week in South Africa, so for many of you, there will be a little more time to think of something other than work and the daily routine!

This week’s article, Thoughts create reality, is inspired by a recent newspaper article in which the journalist interviewed Dr John Demartini.

Demartini is one of many leaders in the field of human motivation and empowerment that played an inspiring role in the creation of the New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme.

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Thoughts create reality

A wonderful role model

Demartini is a wonderful role model for those who face difficulty and challenge in their lives. As a young teenager he was told that his life would never amount to very much and that a learning disability would put proper reading and writing skills beyond him.

At the age of seventeen he had a near death experience. Shortly after that he was to meet a wise old sage of 93. These events were to change his life, for the better, forever.

Today Demartini travels the globe as a teacher and philosopher, spreading his vast knowledge and human insights with love.

Demartini claims that one of his greatest leadership learnings is:

“Remembering that the world around me reflects the world inside me.”

Profound and powerful

This resonates with me as being a most profound and powerful realisation that I wanted to pick up on.

Life sucks!

Most people in the world see themselves as entirely separate from what goes on around them. When times get tough it becomes natural to blame other people or the environment.

To such people the world can often seem like a difficult if not a downright hostile place. Sometimes it can feel like the odds are stacked against them living a fulfilling and joyful life.

Life sucks, it would seem!

But is it that simple?

However, the truth, as I have written many times before, is not that simple. Rather than being imposed upon us, our own realities are created by us through the way in which we think about and respond to the inevitable challenges that we face throughout life.

Challenges are nothing more, nothing less, than opportunities, albeit sometimes in heavy disguise. They represent invitations to change, to grow and to develop as people. After all, what can the purpose of life be if it is not to grow and develop?

Another of my favourite authors, Dr Wayne Dyer, said:

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.”

This is simply another powerful way of espousing Demartini’s point that the world around reflects the world within.

Reality stems from our thoughts

Scientific evidence is mounting to support what spiritually advanced beings have been telling us all along: that our thoughts create our reality – and not the other way around.

What we perceive as matter is, if you analyse it at the submolecular level, 99.99% ‘empty space’. But, of course, empty space is not ‘nothing’. It is simply energy. What turns it into that which we perceive as matter is the ability of our senses interpret it through sight, smell, hearing and touch.

In other words matter is energy that vibrates at frequencies that are low enough for us to pick up with our senses. Once the vibration gets too fast (e.g radio waves) we can no longer recognise that energy as matter. But that does not mean it does not exist!

Here’s the crux of where I am going with this …

Creation … consciously or not

Our thoughts are simply transmissions of energy or energy pulses vibrating at very high frequencies. We have the creative ability to turn these thoughts into matter or ‘reality’ that we can perceive with our senses.

Most of us are still unable to do this consciously, in a controlled fashion. But that doesn’t mean to say we are not doing it!

Because we live in a world where we are programmed to think negatively, most of us experience this creative manifestation as a negative thing. For example, thinking “I’m always short of money” results in, guess what, always being short of money!

Attributing circumstances we don’t like to our own thought processes is hard to accept so we revert to blaming the outside world and justifying our plight.

Is thinking differently the solution?

Can we really change our lives profoundly simply by thinking differently?

Yes, but years of programmed thinking and instilled beliefs cannot simply be switched off in an instant. It takes desire, training, practice and genuine effort.

Think of the last time you put training, practice and real effort into achieving something you desired … Did it pay off?

Of course, now get to it! 🙂

 

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