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Creating Our Own WorldHow to Do It
"Get real" is an expression that we hear quite frequently. What thatexpression means is, get a reality check and to stop behaving asthough you're living in a fantasy world. That's quite funny becausewe all live in a fantasy world that we created in our own mind andmistakenly believe is real.Each and every one of us gets to decide what things and eventsmean for us. We decide what's good, what's bad, what relevant andwhat is not. We decide what we like and what we don't like. Inother words, we take what we see and hear and create our own personal world out of that.It is a well known fact that when ten person are asked to describean incident that they all witnessed together, each will come up witha different version of what has just happened.This phenomenon is due to a mechanism in our brain thatdetermines how we interpret reality. When a stimulus (a sight,sound or message) reaches the brain it is immediately sent to our  bank of references, where all previous experiences are stored, andan association is made between the present and past experiencesand, out of that association, a decision is made as to what this newstimulus means for us.A common experience would illustrate the way that thismechanism works. Let us take the example of someone who comesin the vicinity of a dog. The previous experience with dogs willdetermine the reaction felt.
 
If the person has had pleasant experiences with dogs, the reactionwill be pleasant. On the other hand, if the person had been once bitten by a dog, the reaction will bring a sentiment of fear. Sameexperience, different conclusion. Same world, different reality. Thesame dog, at the same instant will mean joy for one person and fear for another.The world that we experience is one of our own fabrications. The process is automatic and beyond the level of our awareness but it isreal just the same. We determine and create the world that we livein by taking the outside influences and coloring it with our pastexperiences. The outside influences are merely the pawns that wewill use to create our reality.There is a profound lesson to be learned out of that. If we get tocreate our reality we can also influence the outcome of thatcreation. That can be done by deciding what we will focus on andconsciously deciding what the focus of that attention means for us.Ten soldiers will go to war, be surrounded by the same elementsand live a completely different experience. Where one soldier will be on the field of honor and seeking glory, another one will feelthat he has been unjustly sent to a needless and almost certaindeath. Same situation but an entirely different world.We get to choose; we get to decide what type of world that we livein. Why not make it a great one?Dr. Raymond Comeau aka Shamou is the Author of ShamouBlog and Owner Administrator of Personal Development for PersonalSuccessForums. A free discussion vBulletin powered board.
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