The phrase ‘you create your own reality’ is something that many in the so called “New Age” fraternity seem to express these days.  What does it mean?  And surely it doesn’t apply to unpleasant stuff like ill-health?

I first came across the expression when reading the metaphysical works known as ‘The Seth Material’ ~ currently housed in the Manuscripts and Archives at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.  This body of information, dictated by a personality intelligence ‘outside’ of this physical dimension we call reality, essentially reminds us of the actual nature and construct of what we regard as ‘real’. There are over 30 volumes either published or in publication relating to this material authored by Jane Roberts and Robert Butts.  It is a body of work that is slowly being recognised as an essential precursor to understanding not only the nature of one’s Self, but also the change in structure currently being experienced by Humankind’s collective consciousness.  Heavy, heady stuff indeed!  However, there is much in the Material to be enjoyed even by the diehard sceptic, and vast amounts of information regarding the physical creation of illness and dis-ease from a non-physical point of view.

My study of the Seth Material over the past 25 years led me to investigate many learned works from numerous philosophical, religious and scientific disciplines.  My formal academic studies in psychology were instigated by my fascination of the explanations of ‘mind’ explored in the Seth Material.  Ironically, the discipline of Psychology does not presently seem to be too concerned with studying the mind.  And its leading premise is that the mind, and consciousness, are but epiphenomena of brain functions.  That is, an interesting by-product of a bio-mechanistic process. Psychology, alas for the main part, maintains the classical scientific contention, that the physical Universe, that which we perceive through our five senses, is the only reality worthy of study.  Anything outside of these parameters cannot be regarded as ‘real’. The mind and the phenomenon of consciousness, because they are beyond our physical and even technologically enhanced senses, cannot as yet be real - and are thus unworthy of investigation.

This intuitively sad state of affairs returned me to study other ‘alternative’ sources of information on the nature of personal reality.  Sources such as the Elias Transcripts, the Abraham-Hicks archives, Omni through John L Payne, Bashar through Darryl Anka and several other channelled transcripts have confirmed and expanded upon the already comprehensive guide to our personal cosmologies offered by the Seth Material.  In fairness to the scientific fraternity, particularly those exploring Quantum Physics, Cellular Biology and Energy Psychology, there appears to be a convergence appearing among findings in these fields of research and the revelations disclosed in the ‘alternative’ literatures.

I now know intuitively and intellectually what the statement ‘you create your own reality’ means. And I hold it to be a Truth ~ a primary facet of knowledge quintessential to understanding the state of our being and for full expression of our selves in this physical dimension.

How do we create our own reality?  

Essentially, the manifestation of the physical is brought about through the manipulation of energy within the patterning elements of your beliefs, emotions and “orientation”.  These elements form your perception.

“Your perception is how you view yourself, how you view your world, how you interact with your world, how you interact with yourself, with each other, and HOW YOU CREATE YOUR REALITY.  You create your reality through your perception.  Perception is not visual seeing. Perception is not limited to your thought process.  It is not limited to emotion.  It is all-encompassing, and that element of yourself that you do not identify as a thing, for it is not your body and it is not your brain.  It is that element of yourself that creates your reality, that places you in the awareness of reality within this physical dimension.”

(Elias session 381, April 09, 1999 ~ go to www.eliasforum.org)

There is a myriad of probable realities available to you in each nanosecond.  Your individual perception attracts to you the reality that conforms to its own particular frequency.  The primary modulators of this frequency are the beliefs you hold (produced by the thoughts you habitually think and the energy you accrue to them) and the energy that is generated by emotion that is following your pattern of thoughts.

“The energy you give off based on your beliefs – your emotions, your behaviour – the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of reality experience you have.  Because physical reality doesn’t exist except as a reflection of what you most strongly believe is true for you.  That is all physical reality is – it is literally like a mirror.”

(Bashar)

“You have to remember that creation is not about you going out and getting something because everything's about (the) Law of Attraction.  Creation is about me creating within me the vibrational environment that will allow what I want to flow to me.  Creation is about moulding energy.

Creation is about bringing the vibration of my belief into (alignment with) the vibration of my desire, but it does not mean that I have to take every belief that I've ever believed and bring (them) into vibrational harmony with every desire that I've ever desired.  It means the desire that I hold right now (that I wish to manifest) must not be contradicted by some belief.”  

(Abraham-Hicks, Sacramento, CA, May 13th 2000)

Your highly personalised perceptional state, or vibrational frequency, embodies a sense of expectation:

“Again, expectations are not only vital in the formation of physical constructions, but they also determine what inner data of all available, will be received by the individual; and then the individual interprets the data in terms of the same expectations.

The core of individuality, then, is the individual's expectations, for he will truly get what he wants, individually and collectively.

If a man wants to change his fate, desire is not enough, but expectation is.  Desire may grow into expectation, but alone it is not enough.  Expectation is actually the main trigger that switches inner data into the realm of physical construction.  Without it, no physical construction results.

This is extremely valuable information, particularly concerning the part played by expectation in the sifting of available data.  Expectations is somewhat influenced also by past existences, and yet not enough to be binding upon the present personality.

An expectation of danger will indeed create danger.  An expectation of success will create success.  This is put very simply and yet there is nothing, in practical terms, more valid, since expectation has behind it the motivating force of the personality, and utilizes on a subconscious level strong abilities and comprehensions.

Expectation is the force, then, that triggers psychic realities into physical constructions.”

(Seth, the Early Sessions, Book 2, Session 76, p.276)

So, this is how you create your own reality; and yes, this includes the unpleasant reality of unhealthiness. Whether your unhealthiness is of a psychological, emotional, or physical reality, it exists first within your psyche, within your collection of beliefs.  Changing your beliefs, those that give rise to the unpleasant reality, by dissipating the energy you apportion to them, is a prerequisite of reclaiming your natural state of well-being.

Counselling for your Self is an approach to healing that complements the conventional Western medical model that attempts to re-establish health by balancing the chemistry of the body through drugs.  This physical aspect to the Self certainly requires being brought into balance when one is creating ill-health.  However, there are other less ‘physical’ and non-physical aspects to the Self that also require balancing.  Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine procedures used in Counselling for your Self attempt to bring balance to the bio-electromagnetic energy fields (referred to as Qi by Eastern medicinal models) and the psychological patterning (the thoughts, beliefs and expectations) contained within the whole Self.

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Ultimately, if you so desire, the Counselling for your Self approach can be utilised to not only clear a troublesome condition of ill-health, but also to assist you in becoming a fully conscious creator of your own reality.

Click HERE to go to an essay that illustrates the convergence between the metaphysical literature on health and Energy Psychology. methodology.

~  You Create Your Own Reality