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Perhaps the first step to better my world is for me to believe in my own ability to improve my lot.
What better way to build my self-esteem than to know that I am, like every other person in the world, a divine self.
These macrofacts below will help me to boost my belief in my own abilities.
What are ‘Macrofacts’?
‘Macrofacts’ is a new recently coined word to describe facts that permeate every moment of our lives, yet are not immediately obvious to us.
‘The earth spins merrily along on its axis like a giant top” is a macrofact. The corollary to that, the sun does not go around the earth, is also a macrofact. We see the sun arising in the East go overhead and set in the west.
We accept these macrofacts, not because we personally have a proof for that, but because we accept the science that has proved it to be so.
Regrettably, science has not yet proved many other facets of our lives, but not having proved them to be true, does not obliterate their existence.
The following are such macrofacts:
1. We make the world we see around us, the world we live in.
We have an inherent ability to create our own experiences through the power of our beliefs, thoughts and feelings.
2. We have a free will.
We can choose our beliefs, and our thoughts, and thus change our reality.
In effect, we can create whatever we desire.
3. We limit our desires by our perceptions of what is possible to achieve.
Discussion
The idea that a person makes the world he experiences is very difficult for us to accept.
All our upbringing and our daily experiences show that the world we see and experience is something that happens to us, is external to us, and we have to cope with the situations that we are faced with.
However, Louis Hay, in her book, "You Can Heal Yourself" goes so far as to say that we decide before birth, where and under what circumstances we want to be born in.
In spite of an aversion to accepting these ideas it may be worth our while to consider the possibility that we do have a say, rather, a complete say, in what we see and experience what is external to us.
If we accept these macrofacts, we can use them to guide our daily activities to improve our lot.
Let us examine these macrofacts:
1. WE MAKE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
The ancient Veda scriptures of India, the origins of which has been lost to antiquity, says, "All phenomena are projections and expressions of the mind."
A Buddhist saying is, “Mind and appearances exist like fire and heat.”
Christ says,"Ask and you shall be given. Knock and the door will open." There are no conditions attached to what you ask for.
An Indian sage of modern times, Shri Raman Maharshi, died 1949, who had for himself seen and experienced the nature of our world, declared repeatedly that the person who sees and the objects he sees are one and the same.
Scientists and Mathematicians with their quantum mechanics studies are saying the same thing. A quark’s location is only determined when a consciousness looks for the position of the quark.
Sir Fred Hoyle has written a book called "The Intelligent Universe".
Modern self development gurus, Napoleon Hill, Anthony Robbins, Pamala Oslie, Gill Edwards, Louise Hay, to name just a few, all say the same unbelievable story.
2. WE HAVE A FREE WILL.
It is our choice what we want in our life.
We have the freedom to desire what we want.
No fate, or destiny, or conventions of society need determine your choices.
Your only obligation in deciding what gives you pleasure is, since you are connected to all others, that your desires should not impinge on the happiness of others.
Your desire should not cause pain or suffering to any other life.
3. WE LIMIT OUR DESIRES BY WHAT WE THINK IS POSSIBLE.
Our desires, and our attempts to fulfill our desires, are only limited by our belief on what we can do.
If you think you can, you can.
If you think you cannot, you cannot.
As simple as that.
Common sense dictates the way you look at what can be done by you.
You will not say, “I want to jump down Cliffs of Dover, and then swim in the English Channel.”
You will say, instead, “I will paraglide down the Cliffs of Dover, and then swim in the English Channel.”
When you come to apply these ideas to fulfill your desires, it will be important to choose goals that are within what you think is possible for you.
Otherwise your doubts on your ability to reach to your goals will dilute the chances of your reaching those goals.
After your first goal within the boundaries of what you feel you can achieve has been obtained, you may extend your goals to further fields.
4. OUR LIFE IS MEANT TO BE ENJOYED TO THE FULL.
Life is meant to be full of love, joy, success and abundance.
We are not born with a karmic debt that has to be endured.
Such ideas have been propounded as a balm for the oppressed, and to justify social inequality in a society.
Being meek and accepting suffering is not a virtue that will give us the kingdom of heaven.
5. THE WORLD IS AN IDEA OF A THE UNIVERSAL MIND.
All matter we see, our bodies, our earth and the unimaginably vast array of stars and galaxies are built up of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.
At the very root of these subatomic particles is a vortex of potential energy which turns into subatomic particles only when a consciousness becomes aware of that vortex of energy.
That much is pure science, quantum physics, and not the ramblings of a mystic.
A consciousness is a property of a mind.
It follows, therefore, that at its most fundamental level, all matter exists because of a consciousness.
This is the same consciousness we ourselves have!
Consciousness is a sense of awareness, a thought of being aware, the pure thought itself.
In other words, at its very root, all matter is composed of something that has the same nature and quality as the nature and quality of the thoughts of our own minds!
No wonder we can influence our world with our thoughts!
The whole world, really, is an idea, a thought, of a Universal Mind.
6. WE ARE A PART OF THE UNIVERSAL MIND.
That is obvious. We exist in this universe, and all universe is a Universal Mind. So we are a part of the same Universal Mind.
It is us like being a drop of an ocean wave that is breaking up into surf at the crest of the wave.
The drop is separated from the ocean, but it, the water of the drop, is the same as that of the ocean.
The drop is the ocean, only a miniscule proportion of it.
As a part of the Universal Mind we are also connected to all other things in the Universe. By way of that connection, we have access to all the powers of the Universal Mind. Vow!!
With that power behind us, we can create what ever we desire!
The author Denise Linn, says of her near death experience, “I floated out of my body and entered into a realm of golden radiant light. I was surrounded by a loving force that appeared to be infusing the entire universe with vitality and energy. I remembered knowing that I was connected to all people and all life, animate and inanimate.”
7. OUR THOUGHTS, DESIRES, AND BELIEFS CREATE WHAT WE EXPERIENCE.
This is a very difficult concept to accept and to prove.
A simple attempt to understand the concept is provided by the example of us being frightened to death by the appearance of a snake as we walk along a path in the failing light of dusk, and the snake turns up to be no more than a carelessly abandoned piece of rope.
Our thoughts and beliefs, though unfounded, caused our experience of fright.
The thirst parched travellerf in the desert sees a green oasis of water ahead.
More reflection can provide many examples in our own life which can show that our thoughts create our experiences.
We can fortunately find, for our own very self, the ultimate proof that we make the world we see and experience.
We can know for sure, in our own minds, that the world we see is our own creation, as is the dream in our sleep, by a process of asking ourselves repeatedly “Who is the ME wanting this proof?”
You then quietly await for an answer, watching your own thoughts arise in your mind.
You will then be able to discern a tiny amount of time gap between the arising of each individual thoughts.
Dwell in that gap, and you will experience the proof you want.
Regrettably that insight needs intense powers of pointed concentration, which can be developed only with great practice.
Doing so, however, will give you the ultimate proof that you are the creator of your world.
8. THERE IS ENOUGH STUFF IN THE UNIVERSE.
There is enough abundance for everybody.
There is no need for us to rob and deprive others as we accumulate what we desire.
The Universe is unimaginably vast.
The Hubble Telescope revealed by a Deep Field View, when the Telescope was left pointing for a long time, to an area of the sky where no galaxies were known to exist. As light from far, far away reached the telescope, it revealed endless galaxies, each a collection of innumerable stars, even in that empty area.
9. BY CHANGING OUR THOUGHTS WE CHANGE OUR WORLD.
This is a corollary of the Macrofacts Nos. 1 and 7, and easy to understand.
CRITICISMS EXPLAINED
We still need to overcome our resistance to the belief that our thoughts can become things by considering some criticisms leveled against such apparently wishy-washy thinking.
So here is an attempt to answer some of the criticisms leveled against the idea that our thoughts can create our wants.
Wishing & Hoping Does Not Move Mountains.
One ridicule made of "Create your world with your thoughts" idea is that bread served at the table will not get into one's mouth except by you guiding it into the mouth.
No amount of wishing and hoping will get the bread to mysteriously pop into your open mouth.
There is a tragic fallacy in this ridicule of the real nature of our world.
The fallacy is of the type that one thinks that water and ice are essentially one and the same, and so one can sail a ship through an iceberg across the path as readily as one can sail through water.
Water has condensed into a different form, the ice, and thus has different physical properties to water when a liquid.
Similarly whilst "all world is a thought" theory says that all that exists is a thought, in bread at your table the thought "bread" has condensed into the form of bread that obeys the Newtonian laws of physics, just as your "body thought" condensed into your body has to obey the same Newtonian laws.
In your mind you can easily have a thought of bread and eat it.
In that case an idea of bread is being enacted upon by another idea, that of bread entering the mouth.
An idea versus an idea, is interactive.
An idea versus an idea that has solidified into an object is not interactive.
The bread, and the thought of a bread are both essentially the same thing, but in different forms.
Diamond and coal are the same carbon atoms, but in different forms.
What the "all world is an idea" theory says is that all matter, including our bodies, is at its very fundamental level, composed of a stuff that has the qualities of a thought in our mind.
It is like science saying that all mountains, lakes, trees and life are composed of molecules, atoms and electrons, which all have qualities that we associate with electrical charges.
You can generate an idea, a thought, which then can mysteriously, by a process not yet understood (sunlight turned into grass by processes named, but not understood) condenses into a physical thing you can touch and feel.
A lace of entangled factors decide how long it takes to solidify a thought into a reality we see.
As you accept these ideas, beyond an intellectual understanding of them, you will be able to influence this time factor to your advantage.
Signs of such thoughts turning into things are all around us.
Microsoft was a thought of forming a software company in the mind of young Bill Gates.
The train engine was an idea in the mind of Stephen Watts.
The skyscraper, the motorway, parking meters, and a billion other things you see all around you began as thoughts in someone's mind.
This reasoning should clear up the obstacle to accepting the "things are thoughts" theory.
Wishing and Hoping Does Not Create Gold.
There is another criticism thrown against the same idea.
The criticism is that according to the “thoughts are things” theory, one can, say, wish for a new Rolls Royce car, and then sit passively around, and some one will put the Roll Royce on one’s driveway.
The theory says “WE make the world around us.”
It does not say that we wish for something, and some one else does the work for us.
So fortunately this criticism does not apply to our theory at all.
Even so, because at the basis of our theory is the suggestion that one’s thoughts and beliefs create one’s world, it is easy to get confused that by merely thinking of a thing, some one else will give us the object of our thinking.
Should one continue with that confusion, one would miss out of a valuable tool to mould one’s life to one’s own liking.
Therefore it is best to come to grips with this criticism.
According to the theory, your thoughts turn into things after undergoing a mysterious, admittedly, not yet understood process.
You have to be the person initiating that process.
That process may include you working towards making the thought into a thing.
The work, though, will be inspired work, as if guided by a force towards making the thought into a thing. Circumstances may develop that take you easily towards your goals.
The fact remains that it is YOU who will make your experiences with your thoughts, beliefs and feelings.
GOD REMAINS ON OUR SIDE.
The magic behind "you create your world" theory is that you are not at the mercy of some one else, a God, for example, to bestow you pleasure and pain.
You decide the life you want.
God is not out of this equation. He remains very much a part of it - after all, He is the Universal Mind, or if you wish, your own very YOU.
He will remain with you, helping you get your wishes fulfilled.
These are the Macrofacts of life.
Wishing you joy and abundance, Shree-1
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