Creating Your Reality Exercise

The concept of ‘creating your own reality’ can be hard to grasp. It APPEARS like external circumstances control our environment. The way our brains work makes it look like this but in fact every thing we experience is a function of our past experiences and current expectations.

Try this to see how straight away!

Close your eyes wherever you are sitting and think of the color brown. Then open your eyes and look for BROWN things in your immediate environment.

Close your eyes again and think of all the brown things you saw. Now list any red things you saw in the space (probably not many, if any).

Now, close your eyes and think of red. Open your eyes and look for things in the place that you’re in that are RED.

I bet you can list a lot more red things you saw when you close your eyes now?

Because you were thinking about red and looking for red things your brain retains the information it was looking for.

Now for the interesting part. If you couldn’t find any brown items, I bet you started seeking them out where they may not have been so you could succeed at the task. Labelling something beige as brown or squinting your eyes to make it look more brown.

Same with the red right? If there was nothing red in your immediate environment perhaps you started seeking further afield or labelling burgundy items as red?

This goes to show that not only does your brain hyper-focus on what you’re thinking about, even if that thing doesn’t exist, your brain will seek to prove you right and fit the external environment to match your internal thoughts.

So, next time you’re giving yourself a hard time over something, remember that whatever you say, your brain will seek to prove you right and look for evidence in your environment.