http://www.emotional-times.com/2007/08/the-secret-distraction-to-reality-creation.html Articles and information on emotions and emotional healing. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:42:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.emotional-times.com/2007/08/the-secret-distraction-to-reality-creation.html/comment-page-1#comment-72 RaaN Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:16:00 +0000 http://www.emotional-times.com/?p=49#comment-72 The best argument against the idea that your create your own reality is the vast number of people literally starving to death in squalor and disease. Do these people not think about food or shelter or wellbeing? The implication of the idea of creating your own reality is that these people deserve what they get. Worse yet it means rich people deserve what they get. Beyond this argument is the fact of other people. If I create my reality then I create other people too since they are part of my reality. So now it gets worse. That means I am responsible for all those people starving to death. And yet the harsh truth is I don't have that kind of power and neither does anyone else. If it seems that a person can create their own reality it is as you say not a one answer is right answer. Certainly there is much that can be done to change the way things are. The only key is to first of all know what you want your reality to be like. Then action toward it and recognition of opportunities to attain it is heightened. It may be that thinking you create your reality tends to help one focus on one's desires and goals but what is the need of such a magical and irrational belief? No pseudoscience is going to validate it and the bare facts of life, namely death contradict it. So yes decide what your goals are as if you have the power to wish them into reality and then focus on them and look for opportunities and take action. Chances are you will achieve a good number of your goals depending what they are. There are some very good books on goal setting that are just as effective if not more so than any kind of quasi-mystical sugarcoated method. (Just as a final note, the truth about the mystical nature of reality is that there is no self at all let alone a self that creates it's own reality but naturally that wouldn't sound as good on Oprah nor sell as many books though would it?) The best argument against the idea that your create your own reality is the vast number of people literally starving to death in squalor and disease. Do these people not think about food or shelter or wellbeing? The implication of the idea of creating your own reality is that these people deserve what they get. Worse yet it means rich people deserve what they get. Beyond this argument is the fact of other people. If I create my reality then I create other people too since they are part of my reality. So now it gets worse. That means I am responsible for all those people starving to death. And yet the harsh truth is I don't have that kind of power and neither does anyone else. If it seems that a person can create their own reality it is as you say not a one answer is right answer. Certainly there is much that can be done to change the way things are. The only key is to first of all know what you want your reality to be like. Then action toward it and recognition of opportunities to attain it is heightened. It may be that thinking you create your reality tends to help one focus on one's desires and goals but what is the need of such a magical and irrational belief? No pseudoscience is going to validate it and the bare facts of life, namely death contradict it. So yes decide what your goals are as if you have the power to wish them into reality and then focus on them and look for opportunities and take action. Chances are you will achieve a good number of your goals depending what they are. There are some very good books on goal setting that are just as effective if not more so than any kind of quasi-mystical sugarcoated method. (Just as a final note, the truth about the mystical nature of reality is that there is no self at all let alone a self that creates it's own reality but naturally that wouldn't sound as good on Oprah nor sell as many books though would it?)

]]>