This sounds like an odd thing to say and might even seem counterintuitive when you first look at the title of this blog article. But, ultimately it is the truth.
Maybe a good way to start is to say also, "You generate your health ongoing by what you choose to eat!" Almost anyone knowledgeable or a dietitian or health person or professional would agree with this last statement.
So, when I say, "You generate your own reality by what you choose to think about!" shouldn't be so surprising in the end. Because this statement is also true.
Another one, "You generate your own reality by where you go and who you choose to associate with." This might surprise people too but also it is true.
Now, this is a whole lot of responsibility for everyone isn't it? However, this is what life actually is all about if you want to stay alive and be successful enough to survive your life and to have your family and friends survive too.
I can go back and one by one name you people who died too young that I knew and they were breaking one or more rules of these above statements. And I can also name all the people I know over 40 or 50 years of age who learned enough of these rules to survive their lives and are still there for their relatives and families as a support person in their lives.
Taking responsibility for what you think, where you go, who you associate with, and what you do during your lives decides when and where you are going to meet your maker. Some people think it is all fate. However, just like in the movie, "There is no fate but what we make!"
So, taking responsibility for our lives creates whatever future we live. And also, not taking responsibility might take us places we really don't want to be and then we won't be in a human body on earth anymore!
So, by consciously generating the reality you want to live in is a start. However, on a certain level it is very mechanistic in that just like in a car if you have a flat tire and don't believe you have a flat tire, you still have a flat tire until you get a spare tire on a wheel and change the flat tire for the good one. Life is like this too. Life usually is very practical and mechanistic in some ways too. So, learning how life actually works in your body and mind as well as where you live by learning weather (if you want to go outside), by learning what you are allergic to(so you can survive eating all sorts of things), and making a study of foods that don't make you crazy or violent might be useful too.
In 1980 I found a Buddhist statement that likely is the key to the peace I live with every day now. Here it is:
"May All beings attain Bliss and the Cause of Bliss
May all beings be free from suffering and the Cause of Suffering
May all Beings never be without the Supreme Bliss
That is Free of all near and Far all Grasping and Aversion"
Sometimes I will wake up with these statements going on in my head to the point where I can experience this for all beings in the universe now a lot of the time.
So, maybe it also could be said that once we learn how to generate our own reality we can also start to help other people generate a reality that they can stand to live in with peace and prosperity and food and shelter and people who love them. Maybe if enough of us take responsibility we can create every nation and area of earth literally a heaven on Earth one day.
If we all generate a compassionate reality for ourselves and others a heaven will exist everywhere we are.
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