Pathwalking 204
Consider reality.
What we call reality is not the same for everyone. We might believe that it is, but in truth it’s really not. My reality is nothing like yours, or his, or hers, or anyone else’s, really.
Even those we are closest to do not share our reality. Oh unquestionably they intersect, but that doesn’t make them the same.
Let’s take Thanksgiving for example. For some this is a day where family comes together and eats much tasty food. For some this is the remembrance of a time when the native peoples were taken advantage of and subsequently driven from their homes and otherwise mistreated. For some this is a day where you make lots and lots of money because consumerism drives you. For some, it’s a day just like any other day.
There is no right or wrong in this, because we are all in different realities.
Because no two realities are alike, this is why we can manifest virtually anything. We can create the world we want to live in, because what we are actually building is our own personal reality.
Let’s look at other examples. For some people reality is a man and a woman have a relationship, and marry and produce kids. For some people reality is a man and a woman have multiple relationships. For some people a man and a man have a relationship, or multiple relationships, or…the possibilities here are endless.
The point of this is that reality is different for each of us. What we believe and how we view the world is going to create, build, and even destroy our reality.
Pathwalking is the act of consciously creating reality. I frequently use the phrase consciousness creates reality. Well, this is why reality can be changed.
If that’s the case, how come people are poor, how come we have war? The scientific/metaphysical explanation is that is everything is at its base core energy. All energy vibrates and vibrates at a frequency. So even if there are an infinite number of frequencies, we might still be vibrating at similar ones.
We spend more time unaware of our surroundings than we do aware. I mean true awareness, asking ourselves questions and considering our actions, our thoughts and our feelings. Because of this, we often get caught up in group reality. Even though my reality is different from yours, we may still have common elements dictated by outside forces.
Where we live, what religions or philosophies we subscribe to, what gender we identify as, what gender we are attracted to places us in group realities. Society loves to box people. Look at the American political parties. While they are largely the same, one leans left of center the other right of center. However, the parties are a blanket under which all platforms must lie, which is why little to no individuality amongst politicians stands out from the blanket of their party lines.
Reality can be changed. But those big, overarching group realities cannot be changed unless the individuals that fall within them change. If I identify myself a certain way, that creates my reality. When I identify with those groups, I have made that part of the reality I experience.
These are the importance of I am statements. I am white. I am male. I am straight. I am short. Right there I have put myself into four group identities – skin color, gender, sexual orientation, height. Many of the aspects of my reality will be colored by these ways in which I identify myself, and thus create my reality.
Do these need to exist? Yes, because we all have separate identities. Society both encourages and discourages that, however. It is that particular schizophrenia that makes life often far more complicated and difficult than it actually needs to be. The difference lies in self-identity versus group identity.
If I accept someone else’s label of my reality, then it becomes mine. I believe that a lot of times we don’t realize that we take that level of ownership into our hearts and minds, and as such build these realities that, frankly, we really don’t want.
How do I create a reality I desire? I have been working on this for some time now, and learn new ideas constantly. This concept, that reality is only what I make of it, gives me new tools to consider when it comes to creating, finding, and walking the Path of my choosing.
Consider reality. What ways do I identify my world on my own, and what ways do I climb beneath the blanket of the groupthink? This is important, because I believe that if more of us consider our own personal realities, and take more actions, give more thoughts and consider more feelings in that regard we can effect and even change group reality.
It has happened before. The identity of one blanket group reality has shifted and changed, and they can and likely will change again. Accepting our own control of reality empowers us to choose for ourselves, and this will build better things. When individuals are more empowered, they in turn help to empower groups they are a part of.
Before you make your reality based on group reality, consider if it’s what you want, and how you wish to be identified. We have more power and more capability to make our own realities than we realize. Before we attack those groups for change, let’s start with ourselves and our personal realities.
How do you think of your own reality?
This is the two-hundred fourth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas and my personal experiences in walking along the path of life. I share this journey as part of my personal desire to make a difference in this world along the way.
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