6 truths you need to know to manipulate your reality
Post-it note drawing by Dezzy Jones
1. There are levels to the game.
Awareness of this infinite realm lives on an infinite spectrum. The people on this planet walk around with varying levels of consciousness. You know when you meet a group of people and someone makes a comment that they feel like “you’re on the same wavelength?” Sometimes this feeling we get with people is sourced from a greater awareness of where this person lies on the spectrum on consciousness. We tend to attract and be attracted to those who are on a similar level as us. We feel like we understand those people better. They’re less confusing. They put you at ease.
Different levels of access to resources result in varying levels of consciousness. Think of it similarly to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, but there’s no tip to the pyramid. There’s are infinite layers you can continue unlocking. The individuals who have trillions of dollars — those who essentially own and rule the world — have a completely different conscious experience than the supermarket manager who makes $39,000 per year.
2. Your perception of reality is real.
This sentence may look like it makes no sense at first glance. However, it’s the most concise way I could think of to communicate the following idea: Whatever you believe to be true, is true.
We’ve been given the blessing and the curse of experiencing human life subjectively. We are the Gods of our lives, because we can choose to believe whatever we wish to believe. And if we believe it, in our subjective experience, it is true. If we believe that God is real, God exists. If we believe that evil is real, evil exists. If we believe that we’re on the path to greatness, we’re on the path to greatness. Keep this point in mind throughout the duration of our time together.
3. You can actually change.
You are not required to be the same person tomorrow that you are today. You technically have the option to wake up in the morning, decide to do everything differently, and live life with a different personality. But it’s also technically possible for a chimpanzee to paint the Mona Lisa. Bad example. Basically, possible doesn’t necessarily mean likely. You are not tied to your past (except through your thought patterns and emotional addictions). This means that your future can look astronomically different than how it looks right now.
It is entirely possible that the future-you is living in a reality that would be unrecognizable to you now.
4. The game wants you to play it.
If you choose to engage with the laws of the universe, she accepts you as a player of the game. She will respond to you, ask you things, prompt new ideas, and provide you with foreign insights that seem to come from nowhere. If you consciously choose to play the game, your tools will find you, because the universe wants you to play it.
5. How you do one thing is how you do everything.
This is a powerful law of the universe that not enough people take advantage of. You are able to affect big things by manipulating small things. With the power of human intention, you are actually able to bend your reality by letting a small action represent something bigger in the world. For example, lots of people like to visualize things while working out in the gym. If there’s a big presentation, project, or obstacle that you’re facing, you may decide to exercise to blow off steam. Part of what’s happening (and why it feels so good to exercise the stress away) is because you are letting your ambition and robust movements at the gym permeate through you, and represent who you are in those moments. You tend to work out harder during these workouts, and in doing so you’re characterizing yourself as ambitious, energized, strong and capable.
Similar to the concept of a Voodoo Doll. Where a model of a person is linked to a real person. The same way someone can prick a doll and it affects their neighbor, you can sweep your floor with a broom and let it wash away your stresses. You can put a puzzle together while thinking about a relationship you want to put back together. Simply form an association between one thing and another with intention and openness, and you’ll literally be changing the world around you.
6. God doesn’t care about what you think God cares about.
Imagine that you’ve been playing a game by a specific set of rules your whole life. Everyone around you seems to be playing the same game, touting the same rules and philosophies that you’ve grown to embody. The idea of what the focus should be is mirrored in our schools, social groups, and work environments. You’ve been so focused on being a good person, staying in line, serving society through work, and abiding by the law. All good things. However, it’s just the tip of the iceberg of what life could be. Unfortunately, most of us go from the cradle to the grave, only circling around the tip of this iceberg. It never occurs to us to face what’s deeper.
The feelings that you suppress out of fear of disrupting your perception of yourself — what if you looked closer at them and investigated their origins?
That idea you have but you won’t move forward with because you aren’t sure if it will bare fruit — what if you ignored potential outcomes, and instead entertained the idea just. for the sake of the journey?
Perhaps you aren’t simply being graded on taking morally correct actions. Perhaps you’re also being graded on your ability to unravel yourself, cut through the noise and distraction of day-to-day life, and get to the bottom of what your purpose is.
– Dezzy
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