Seeing reality for what it is!

It’s been a few weeks since I sat down to write. Though it’s only been a couple of weeks, it feels like I’m in a different space altogether. I feel free, happy, and light. I’m not bombarded with thoughts as much and I’m not living in my mind trying to control any aspect of life. I feel at peace as I’m open to life, letting life happen as it would and welcoming it.

The realisation that our outer reality is created by our inner reality and not the other way around like we’ve been taught throughout our lives, and seeing reality for what it is, is actually quite simple. It may be a bit harder to grasp sometimes only because we’ve been taught and conditioned for so long to live in our minds. We are taught to always live in fear, planning for a future that may or may not happen or to carry around a story we’ve created for ourselves, which deems what is possible and not possible, and what we are capable or not capable of, relating to the narrative we’ve created for ourselves. But we all as humans innately know how to be aware and to be present.

When we are in our minds we can easily miss the present moment while we worry about an imagined future and trying to take measures to try steer it in a certain way that we think would be ideal. Once we are open to letting life happen to us and are able to live moment to moment, breath to breath, we are living in the present moment and actually are able to enjoy and live life as it happens. You can be fully here right now with everything you do. The time you spend talking to someone, if you’re listening while thinking how to respond, though you are there physically, your mind is in the future. You might be able to recall this conversation later in the way you remember but you’ve missed it as it happened in real time.

This applies to everything in our lives, may it be driving, spending time with loved ones, eating, running, we’ve learnt to do most of the these things unconsciously/ on auto pilot. We do them through our muscle memory. We are run by subconscious programs that we don’t even know we’ve created. Though we are trying so hard to control and plan our lives we aren’t aware that we are living in a sleep state as long as we are run by these programs in our subconscious mind. When things happen, we react out of habit, when we feel certain emotions, we get carried away with the emotions may it be pleasant or unpleasant but we don’t always know what inflicted that emotion in us and why. We just react out of habit.

If anything external can make us feel a certain way, it can only do so because of the conditioning we already have within us relating to it. This is why it’s not everything you see is able to get a reaction out of you, only some. We don’t all react the same way or find something offensive the same way, it is a matter of our individual conditioning. When we are able to realise that we actually have no control over our lives and stop resisting what comes, we become free. The more we are present, living right here, right now, the more you are letting go of these subconscious patterns. When you are living each moment consciously, there is no room for these subconscious programs to take over and for us to react out of habit.

The by products of living this way, consciously, is, since you are no longer worried about your past or your future, you are merely happy. Having no worries simply means there’s no stress. No stress means you are not deteriorating your gut everyday so you’ll actually allow the body to carry out its functions smoothly, which makes you healthy. Feeling free, light, happy and grateful means you’re also in a higher vibration/energy which means you’re attracting to your life more of that same energy. So don’t be surprised if your daily life becomes something completely unpredictable but in the most pleasant way ranging from events to people, to everything else in your life which might be giving you more reasons to be thankful.

Maybe take a few minutes each day to be present, start with merely 3 to 5minutes of focusing on your breath soon as you wake up or before you go to sleep. Let yourself come to the present moment. Make it a daily practice and trust me if you actually do this for a few days fully focusing on the moment, you'd yourself intuitively know what to do! 😊