On Saturday evening, I was invited to a mysterious event by a dear friend and client. I felt a couple momentary pokes of insecurity leading up to the event, and I loved them! These pokes were echoes of so many previous experiences of insecurity as my primary experience.
Going into the event, I grounded myself in one of my self-creation statements: the person I am with is beautiful, valuable, and important, and worthy of my respect, compassion, and understanding.
The whole event occurred to me from within that world I created. Each person I met was so wonderful, so creative, so kind, so beautiful, so lovely, and so worthy of my love and respect. Such a gift to be with each of them.
The experience would NOT have gone that way if I let insecure, judgmental, or fearful thinking obscure the experience. In other words, if I had allowed my unconscious creation to determine my experience.
“What you perceive is communicated always. You do it with the clothes you place upon the body. You do it with your gestures and the sound of your voice… You are constantly and only creating forms through which you communicate.”
Everything about our lives is an expression of our perceptions of how we see ourselves, others, and the world.
The world comes in through our senses, but we mostly don’t perceive the world as it is. Instead, we mostly perceive the labels, judgments, opinions, and concepts that we layer on top of what our senses bring in.
Even our inner world is mostly filtered through our thinking. Fear, anxiety, excitement, love...rarely do we allow ourselves to experience these emotions as they are. Instead, we resist, react, or indulge in merely the idea of them.
This mechanism is so subtle!
We don’t perceive our lives as they are - we perceive our lives as we've labeled it, judged it, and believed it to be.
We are constantly creating on top of the information that comes in through our senses. We can’t help it! We are meaning-making machines, we are creatures who love categorizing, defining, and labeling.
And we do it ALL the time.
We are constantly creating with our minds. It’s a subtle layer of thought of which we’re mostly blind and ignorant. In other words, we’re constantly unconsciously creating with our minds.
We don’t even know we’re doing it most of the time!
The Buddha taught this 2500 years ago:
“Experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, and produced by mind.”
Our thinking gives us the world we think we witness, the people we’re with, and the person we are. And then we show up in our lives consistent with the world we've created.
“For as he thinks in is heart, so is he.”
- Proverbs 23:7
Yes, we are constantly creating, and meditation is one of those tools that helps us see how we’ve painted reality with our own fears, our own judgments, our own insecurities, and our own desires.
We and our lives are the result of our seeing.
So what now?
First, practice seeing how you've unconsciously painted your life to be what it is in all areas. (This isn’t usually easy, especially on our own!)
Second, own it. (Yes, this takes guts.) New possibilities open when we see this and then take responsibility for the way we’ve painted the area.
Third, consciously create.
How we see ourselves, how we see others, and how we see the world gives us who we are.
Want new results in life? Change the way you see.
No, this isn’t an education we receive in school (yet). Though it is a capacity within each of us that can be developed and mastered.
It takes practice to develop this powerful capacity to alter how the world occurs to us in a way that gives us freedom, love, peace of mind, self-expression, and empowerment.
The practice of Constant Conscious Creation.
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
- Romans 12:2
When you're ready to master the art of Constant Conscious Creation in your own life, reach out and let's work together one-on-one, in your relationship, or with your team/group/school.
Much Love. ❤️
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