You Create Your Own Reality

Dear Mikey & Vanessa,

You create your own reality. Each of us does. Ofcourse, we co-create each community we become a part of (i.e. family, friendship, church groups, clubs, etc.) but at bottom, we experience all of that from our unique perspective...a particular consciousness. That experience is deeply shaped by our geography, ancestry, culture, wealth, family, upbringing, and all of the other layers of identities that we overlay over ourselves along the way. All of those inform how our brains process the light information that comes into our eyeballs and turns it into a story. A reality. A personality.

I think the analogy of a computer is helpful here. 

Think of your body as hardware. You can tinker with parts, but generally, you are stuck with the outer form. You have to take care of the hard drive because if it crashes, you can’t enjoy any fancy games or access anything because there is no power. 

Think of your mind as software. You can download new software that improves or radically transforms the way you experience the hardware. That is learning. 

Now, think of yourself as a programmer. You can intentionally choose what programs your consciousness chooses to run each day. Are you running programming that tells you to be afraid to die, to fail, to go beyond your comfort zone? 

Know that you can change your reality at any time. That applies internally and externally. Imagine your body, your mind, as a little meadow where only you control the seeds that take root, what the soil will be, and what the atmosphere/climate it. Will you tend your garden or will you let anyone scatter whatever seeds they want into your mind/heart.

All my love,

Titilayo