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The notion that we create our reality usually starts out as a cute idea you read in a manifestation book. It’s fun and exciting until you start to have uncomfortable thoughts and then see them show up in the world around you.
In the beginning these are easy to brush off.
But as you deepen your consciousness journey, the coherence between your inner world and outer world becomes obvious. You realize you are, and always have been, creating your experience on a much deeper level than just the actions you take each day.
Recognizing the power of your consciousness and its reflective nature is simultaneously thrilling and scary as shit.
The thrilling part is what this means for your growth and agency. Using consciousness to take more authorship of your experience is much more exciting than when reality was perceived as a soup of randomness you had to wade through.
The scary parts are the level of personal power this insinuates and how our minds can interpret the mirror.
If your consciousness is creating your experience, what happens if you have a bunch of scary thoughts? Will you manifest them?
When you start to see things related to your fears in the outside world, does this mean you’re on the path to creating them and that they will happen?
There have been many times when this idea scared the crap out of me.
Let me give you an example.
I once had a fear that something really crippling was going to happen to me. This thought came out of nowhere and my mind latched on to it. It started cycling no matter how I tried to relate to it. Then I started to encounter things in the real world related to this fear everywhere. I went from never noticing this condition, to seeing it constantly.
Was this a sign?
Was I on the path to manifesting this fate and life was now reflecting it back to me? This scared the crap out of me and put me at war with my thoughts. I tried to heal whatever this was quickly, before something irreversible happened!