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When you realize that you never saw your beliefs in the world, that you only saw events that had no inherent meaning, it becomes clear that you create your beliefs—and, ultimately, reality as you experience it. Thus, everything we say is “out there”—other than what we sense (in other words, what we touch, see, hear, smell, or taste)—is a distinction we create that exists only in our mind.
Creation is the act of making distinctions
For example, you walk down the street and think you actually see “men” and “women,” when you actually only perceive what we have defined as individual human beings. You describe these human beings as “men” or “women,” but you have never actually seen “men” or “women”; they are only abstractions you have distinguished and imposed on reality. If you were to arbitrarily distinguish people into those taller and those shorter than six feet, you would eventually walk down the street and think you are seeing “shorties” and “tallies” as clearly as you now see men and women.
In Alternate Realities, Lawrence LeShan gives a simple example:
Consider how we make classes of things. “Surely,” we say, “we do not create classes. We take them as we find them ‘out there,’ male and female, animal, vegetable, and mineral. . . . We are not creating anything. We are observing things and learning their relationships.” Why then, asked one philosopher, has no one made a class of red, juicy, edible things and included meat and cherries in it? Or a class of tall, dark-haired men and women with no earlobes?
It becomes clear, as we look at LeShan’s example, that we help create and maintain the reality we perceive and react to. So nothing is until you make it so. But once you do, it must be. You can no longer not see men and women. (I once had the following printed on a t-shirt: “It isn’t until it is, and then it must be.” Can you imagine me trying to explain what I meant by that phrase to everyone who read it and asked me?)
Here is a vivid example. In The Experts Speak by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, hundreds of experts are cited who were limited in their ability to see anything outside their existing beliefs. The following is just one of the beliefs that was generally accepted as “the truth” and that determined the believer’s behavior at the time.
Cerf and Navasky tell of how
in the 1850s, a Hungarian doctor and professor of obstetrics, Ignaz Semmelweis, ordered his interns at the Viennese Lying-In Hospital to wash their hands after performing autopsies and before examining new mothers. The death rate plummeted from 22 out of 200 to two out of 200, prompting the following reaction from one of Europe’s most respected medical practitioners:
It may be that it
Semmeiweis’ superiors shared Dubois’ opinion; when the Hungarian physician insisted on defending his theories, they forced him to resign his post on the faculty.
Today this example seems ridiculous. Doesn’t everyone know that proper hygiene is a lifesaving factor in hospitals? We tend to view this as an objective reality—as a fact. But Dubois and his colleagues were operating out of a different worldview, from a different set of beliefs. Semmelweis’s theory did not fit with their beliefs about hospital care, and therefore it was not and could not be the truth for them.
The only thing that is “true” is that which you make true by definition. You create reality (truth) by making arbitrary distinctions out of nothing. Whatever you distinguish becomes real (true) by the very fact of your having made the distinction. The distinction brings something into existence. It also serves as the definition of what has been brought into existence. Our world is—but only because we said so. We are, by our very nature, conscious beings who distinguish, which means beings who create our perception of “reality.”
I want to emphasize that I am not saying we create our physical reality. Maybe we do and maybe we don’t; I’m not sure. I am saying we create our perception of physical reality, and most people don’t ever make that distinction. Getting fired or having a spouse leave us are facts in reality; the events actually do exist. That they are a disaster or an opportunity for something better is a function of our beliefs and our occurrings. So when I say we create our reality, I am saying we create our experience of reality and we can change it.
Once you have created a belief, you have created a reality (for you) in which your belief is “the truth.” (I am…. People are…. Life is….) And your life becomes consistent with that belief. You have constant evidence that the belief is true. You have a hard time even imagining possible behavior that is not consistent with your belief. It is difficult to eliminate or change the belief because you feel that you actually perceived it existing in the world. So your behavior continues to be consistent with your belief, even if it is dysfunctional and you try to change it.
When You Eliminate a Belief You Change Your Reality and Create New Possibilities
Because “things” only exist as a result of distinctions you make, when you dissolve or eliminate the distinction, that reality disappears. The following exercise demonstrates my point.
Let’s distinguish a two-dimensional figure with three straight sides from every other possible figure and call it a triangle. (A definition is nothing more than how you describe a specific distinction. It’s the “nature” of the distinction.) Now let’s change the figure by adding one more side and making it a four-sided figure with equal angles. Notice you no longer have a triangle. You now have a figure we have defined as a rectangle. The new figure no longer fits the definition of a triangle. You might say that the triangle has disappeared. It doesn’t exist.
From this illustration we learn that when the unique attributes of a “thing” are changed—when the distinction that makes it unique from other “things” is changed—that specific “thing” disappears.
This principle explains what makes a belief disappear during the Lefkoe Belief Process (LBP). In the LBP you identify a specific belief, which is a conviction you have that your way of viewing the world is “the truth,” as distinguished from all other views, which are not “the truth”—they’re false. You then transform a statement that you consider to be “the truth” into a statement that you consider to be “a truth?’ Once you do that, the statement is no longer a belief. It has become merely one possible interpretation—one of many possible ways of defining reality. Thus, the belief no longer exists. It has disappeared! And when the belief is gone, your reality has changed. New possibilities appear that weren’t there before.
Conventional Psychotherapy
Most therapies assume that there is an objective world “out there” that the client is having trouble dealing with. Therefore, the conventional role of therapy is to help people cope better with that objective world. The LBP, on the other hand, assumes that there is no “reality” (for you) independent from your beliefs. Thus, altering your beliefs not only changes your behavior, your feelings, and how you perceive the world, it literally changes the world in which you function.
Because we create the world as we experience it, we can change it at will.
Do you have any suggestions or comments on these thoughts on how your beliefs create your experience of reality?
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“we do create our experience of such events” –
So the 9-month-old baby just “created her experience” of being raped? What experience would you have wished her to create instead — and how?
When a client of yours writes you a check that bounces, will changing your beliefs un-bounce the check? Do you ask your client to make up the missing funds — or do you just change your belief to a belief that the bounced check didn’t happen?
Re:
” Semmelweis’s theory did not fit with their beliefs about hospital care, and therefore it was not and could not be the truth for them.”
If it “was not and could not be the truth for them,” does that mean that their ignoring Semmelweis’ discovery “was not and could not be” truth about how their patients got infected?
Re:
“The only thing that is ‘true’ is that which you make true by definition” —
Do you regard that statement of yours as “true” or not? (If you regard it as ‘true,’ do you think that you made it true by definition?)
Hi Kate,
Thanks for pointing out my error about the derivation of the word “language.” I got that from another source and never checked it out myself, which was a mistake.
You also ask: So the 9-month-old baby just “created her experience” of being raped? What experience would you have wished her to create instead — and how?
I wouldn’t want her to create any experience. But she could hold it that she is bad, she is dirty, men can’t be trusted, life is dangerous, etc. — or she could learn to hold it that one person did something he shouldn’t have done to her and it means nothing about her, all men, and life. The first set of beliefs will make her miserable for the rest of her life. The latter will free her from a horrible childhood experience.
I think you are misunderstanding the point I was making in these various posts. Events have no inherent meaning, although they do have a consequence. So the consequence of an event can be damaging, but it has no meaning beyond that event. When we make up a meaning for an event: I am …, people are …, life is …, we are allowing that event to affect us way past the consequences of the event.
We have worked with rape victims who get rid of beliefs like the ones I just named above and who say they are free from the event for the first time since it happened. It is horrible that it happened, but what continues to affect the victim years later is not the event, but the meaning given the event.
I’m not sure what I said that got you so upset, but whatever it was I’m sorry. I write from my experience with literally thousands of clients who find our work valuable. If I said something that was upsetting to you, I apologize.
Regards, Morty
You are learning to play with creative energy, period. And, you are free to experiment in any way you wish. That is thy purpose, each of you. Your physical system is meant to give you a more *immediate source of feedback, because this is what you have chosen.
You are taught then, from stimuli, including your fellows – to think aright, you begin to see clearly. The feedback system allows trial and error, you see. I tell you guilt is artificial, but you will feel this way until you dont want to*
You will not *resist*, you will choose – you will learn very directly now, to allow what seems to happen to you as your creation, for I tell you strongly, that you have given much thought to an event before it materialized.
Now, for our good friends Kate and Morty, you ask why the child asked to be raped, or the infant that dies at birth?
What you are thinking today, will be your future, period. There is no other rule. You do not realize however, that you dwell on the negative, with intent to resist, or push away what you dont want. You are fearful, and you believe by pushing away you get the opposite, when all you are doing is drawing that to you. Your intellect, dealing directly with physical life, and without the benefit of that small voice within that you *discount* – is fearful of tomorrows, because it cannot see what will happen next. Do you understand? The intellect needs balance, and that can only come from within.
The infant that is stillborn, the child raped, these individuals have given much thought to these actions, and in the case of the infant, in a so called, and in your terms ONLY, pre birth, or a previous life. For I tell you what you think about today will manifest, and your lives are one long current – and when you lose your body this sojourn, your thoughts carry forward, period.
There are also grand social implications far beyond your current sight to these events, where not only the individual learns, in what you would call sacrificing the self, for the benefit of the whole. No one dies or is involved in such occurrences that has not decided to do so, and with much thought. As I have told you in my post above, thoughts are electromagnetic, but this you dismiss, you believe your sight, over your faith **
There is value in every meaning, for you have made it so, You are not meant to tell yourself to change the meaning to what you would call a beneficial one, for if you understand my writing here, there is fulfillment in all thought – only in your limited awareness do you call thought ‘destructive’ for you cannot destroy anything.
Morty, my good friend, I am teaching you here, for there is nothing new under the sun. Do not fear if you dont understand now, you will take these kernels with you, and when the time comes, they will blossom within, revealing to you in a new way, what you knew all along.
SO i believe b4 it is real. or after it,s real???? interesting!!!
Opinions and beliefs, are often, if not always, just from our perspective and they can always be askew. Your approach and method is very powerful in allowing to correct our skewed perspectives. They really do help us to “recreate” our mental and emotional conditions and well being. You methods do “work”, and bring about healing and the ability to perceive and proceed with more compassion and understanding, and I thank you as I have personally benefited from applying your methods. However there are truths that are truths whether we believe them or not. As you used the medical illustration regarding the washing of hands, the fact is the germs, etc, were there whether we believed that fact or not. Sometimes we just don’t know the truth yet, or simply don’t want to acknowledge that a truth is the truth. Truth is truth no matter where you find it. Having the integrity and honesty to deal with it is another matter.
Hi Dennis,
I agree that there are “truths,” but they are what we made true by definition.
And the washing hands example, that is still only one interpretation. We may discover in the future that we can “make ourselves better” with our thinking, despite germs. Germs cause illness is not “the truth.”
Exposed to the same germs, some people get sick and some don’t. Some people’s immune system is stronger than others.
And a lot of things have seemed absolutely true in one culture that were not seen as true in another, and true at one time in history and not in another.
So even when everyone we know agrees with something we have to be careful about calling it “the truth.”
Regards, Morty
Languages differs as the needs of people also differ. Language create reality that are present in the speech community concerned. That means if the people of a certain speech community don’t have needs of a certain object language also will lack such a word for that object.
Hi Simon,
I think it works both ways. If a society has no need for a certain abstraction, it won’t exist in the language.
And if the language has no word for something, that something can’t exist for the people using that language.
Thanks for commenting.
Regards, Morty
Morty,
Thanks so much for your article. You are so right about how our perception of events and things around us shapes our reality. I think about the flooding of my childhood home when I was about 3 years old. I remember waking up one morning and my parents were packing up our belongings because the Missouri River had overflowed its banks and my parents only lived a few miles from the river. At the time I thought it was exciting because we would get to stay with grand-parents. Later ( I don’t know if it was days or weeks later) before we were able to return to our home, I remember riding in the family car with my father. He parked the vehicle on high ground in the driveway and told me to stay in the car. As I gazed out a window, I watched my father wade across what had been our front lawn but looked now like a lake. It seemed as if the water was at least waist high or more on my father and he was not a short man. I was in awe but of course had no sense of loss or damage caused by the flood. For me, at the age of 3, it was an adventure. However as an adult, I realize that if the same or similar event were to happen to me, I would more than likely see it as a devastating event because I would be thinking about damage and loss of property as well as well as messy and back-breaking clean-up. Whose perception of this flood was “reality”? For adults who saw loss of home and property, this was a natural disaster but for a three year old child, it was a grand adventure.
Hi Cathy,
What an incredible example of how the same events can be viewed in two totally different ways. I will use this story at some point. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Regards, Morty
I’m ipmersesd by your writing. Are you a professional or just very knowledgeable?
Thanks for a great article Morty, I always read you and learn something new!
I am now ina phase, where all these things come to me, very often they are just a confirmation of something that has been inside of me all the time, but Im still struggling … sometimes is seems to me like there is me, my inner world in which I understand everything, and then
I hit the reality … and it is sometimes painful. But I keep standing up and keep trying to go on. Its not that I have doubts, its more about the old programming that makes me create the reality I dont like.
Hi Viv,
I’m glad you like my weekly posts.
You say your old programming is still getting in the way. Why don’t you get it out of the way? You can eliminate the old beliefs so easily and quickly. There is no need to keep creating a reality you don’t like.
Regards, Morty
To me TLM felt like an energy release, sort of a brain cleanse, similar in some ways to EFT. It seemed to drain out the negative emotions associated with the bad memories that I wrote down, and hence removed some of the stuck thoughts and feelings that were caused by those events and memories.
Hi “me”
I think there are similarities between the TLM and many different modalities, and it is still unique to the best of my knowledge.
Regards, Morty
Morty,
Just wanted to say that I used therapy when I went through crisis periods and it did help. Eliminating the basic beliefs through validating the original perception eliminates the the dichotomy of “right” or “wrong” which can make you feel “stupid”(another belief). That is what makes LBF different and unique. Since I’ve completed the Nat. Conf. program, each interaction I have with people feels natural. I’m also more open to introducing myself to people and am re-discovering my passion for writing poetry. Each day I feel as if I’m growing more and more into it. To anyone who has not done it, do the free belief elimination. It will open a door into yourself you didn’t realize was closed. Love and Light
PS Looking forward to the Occurring Course!
Hi Lauren,
I am so happy you have gotten so much value from our work. And I look forward to spending 10 weeks with you during our new occurring course.
Regards, Morty
I have been fortunate to work through some of my limiting beliefs with Shelly Lefkoe and I am very grateful for the results. The Lefkoe Method is amazingly simple but effective. The principle of your world being created through your perception is absolutely true and you can see the difference in people who believe the universe is hostile versus those who believe the universe is friendly. Our perceptions are also relative and everyone’s perception of abundance, success and prosperity is different because it is based on their current beliefs and perceptions.
A fascinating perspective and a very empowering one.
Hi Janet,
Thanks for taking the time to join the conversation and leave a comment.
Glad to hear you got such value from your one-to-one sessions with Shelly.
Regards, Morty
I have heard therapists say that the goal of therapy is to change the voices in your head. That is the same idea as the Lefkoe Method. CBT looks at things the same way–it’s your perception of events that matters. Psychotherapy’s goal is to get beyond what appears to be and get to the underlying issues. To me the reason it doesn’t work that well is that it’s unstructured and doesn’t get to the unconscious mind. But it does help in fixing your day to day life.
Hi me,
Thanks for joining the conversation. As I replied to Jason, there are a lot of different forms of psychotherapy, but most of them assume an objective reality we are not coping with very well. And the goal is to help us cope better.
CBT posits that we have chosen poor or wrong interpretations of reality and helps us choose correct interpretations. I contend the the interpretations we formed as children were not “wrong.” They are valid given the thinking ability of young children. Moreover, there is no “the truth.”
And I do not question that conventional therapy can be useful. It certainly was to me.
Regards, Morty
I like the article Morty. Really powerful. However, being a Psychology student, it bothers me how you have simplified Psychotherapy into one ‘objective reality’ where any belief is validated is if it is the truth. I feel like you have totally over-simplified conventional psychotherapy without knowing much about it and how enormous and variable the field is. I feel like below the psychotherapy vs. the Lefkoe method comparison part of the article, you are trying to criticize it in order to show how the Lefkoe method is the only one that works.
My point is that you do not need to reduce or even criticize convention psychotherapy, even implicitly, to validate your method. Your method is successful, innovative and life-altering without having to reduce psychotherapy as a less-than counterpart. In doing so, I feel as though you may make yourself vulnerable to offending psychotherapists unintentionally or unnecessarily. Possibly you may also, unconsciously be revealing an insecurity of your own by making this comparison: that why would any choose the Lefkoe method when there are so many trained, psychologists with doctorates. Nonetheless, I love your work. I’ll never miss a blog.
Love
Jason Linder
Hi Jason,
I agree that I lumped a lot of very different schools of therapy into one generalization. And what I said is true of most of them, even if there are some exceptions.
I didn’t say this to make The Lefkoe Method better or to make psychotherapy wrong, only to distinguish between the focus of the two.
I was in therapy for many years before I created TLM and found it very useful. I learned how to cope better with reality. But the problems disappeared totally after getting rid of the beliefs that caused the problems.
I don’t have any insecurity about our work. If anything I can’t figure out why people would choose most conventional therapies when TLM produces better results in less time … in most cases. Obviously most people don’t yet know about TLM, many are skeptical, etc.
How is life in Costa Rica? I’ll bet you are looking forward to spending time with your family real soon.
Love, Morty
Marty,
Powerful blog post and so true. We are our belief systems; however, few realize that we can control our beliefs . We have to watch out for those old self fulfilling beliefs. So many times our belief systems stand infront of our progress, and who do we have to blame ? no one but ourselves.
Thanks Marty Great post,
Victoria
Hi Victoria,
The only suggestion I would make is to eliminate the word “blame.” Most people form the only beliefs possible to a young child given their experience and don’t know that there is a way to eliminate those beliefs.
Regards, Morty
By the way, it’s Morty and not Marty.
In the simplest of terms, no other thought process is necessary, for your readers edification – to live is not a monumental task, therefor, the process of creation explained : (for those with ears to hear let them listen) :
“Your thoughts have an electromagnetic reality. Now you must realize that this is true or the rest of what I am saying will indeed sound like Pollyanna nonsense.
When you think in terms, for example, of abundance and plenty, then those thoughts draw to you abundance and plenty as a magnet does.
There will be a while, while you are changing your beliefs – for example, you will find yourself in a period where you feel quite self deceptive and you are saying ‘I am surrounded by wealth and abundance’, and you still look around you and you are poor. And you think, ‘This is a lot of bull!’
But it took you some time to build up your beliefs to the point of your present experience, and, so, in your terms, there may be some lag before your new beliefs draw to you abundance. But, your physical experience follows your thought. And you cannot change the experience without first changing your thought. Now it does no good to believe two things at the same time.
So, what you do is this — you say, ‘I will play around with this idea. I will admit that it might be possible that my own thoughts about money are causing my lack of it. And so, for the hell of it, I will, several times a day, pretend that I am surrounded by abundance, and in my mind I will imagine the things that I want. If it does not work, I have not lost a thing, but if it works, I have gained a lot.’
So, you try it for several weeks, and each time that you do, the idea becomes a little bit more possible, a little bit more real. And, in the meantime, these thoughts are changing the beliefs that you have had.
They are at least balancing them. And they begin to draw to you abundance. There is no other way to change your physical reality, but by changing your thoughts.”
Hi Soul,
Thanks for joining the conversation.
Regards, Morty
I agree with the idea that we determine what a situation means in our lives but how can you say the reality of a hurricane is not really a hurricane. No matter what it is, it is tearing down your house with or without you in it. If you determined that the reality of the hurricane coming was not your reality and stayed then you died. If you determined it was real, then you left and lived. Reality is, things happen that you cannot control but you can control how you react to that happening and how you interpret that event.
Hi Jan,
Somehow my message wasn’t clear. I was trying to say essentially what you said at the end of your post: things happen that you cannot control but you can control how you react to that happening and how you interpret that event.
I did say that I’m still not sure if we have any control over the actual events. I’ve seen evidence both ways and I haven’t made up my mind yet.’
Regards, Morty
Brilliant article and so well explained in a way easily understood. Thanks.
Hi Veronica,
Thanks for the compliment and for taking the time to write.
Regards, Morty
Question…I watched a documentary last night on a priest that molested boys and girls for many decades. I am simply trying to make a connection as to why someone would attract an event of this nature at such a young age and with no comprehension of what is molestation.
Why would a little girl 5 years of age attract a person like that?
Even more disturbing a 9 month old was also molested?
Thank you for your insightful writting
A child did not attract the molester. Good grief. You don’t need to believe that.
Hi Roger,
One answer that people who believe totally int he Law of Attraction have given is that the “soul” decided before birth to have such things happen in this lifetime to be able to experience them and overcome them.
As I emphasized in my post, I’m not sure if we create specific events in our lives like that. But we certainly do create our experience of such events. By changing the meaning we gave such events when we get older, we can totally shift the impact of such events on our life.
Regards, Morty
Re “we do create our experience of such events” —
So the 9-month-old baby just “created her experience” of being raped? What experience would you have wished her to create instead — and how?
Re:
” Semmelweis’s theory did not fit with their beliefs about hospital care, and therefore it was not and could not be the truth for them.”
If it “was not and could not be the truth for them,” does that mean that their ignoring Semmelweis’ discovery “was not and could not be” truth about how their patients got infected?
The only thing that is “true” is that which you make true by definition.
We always think that opportunities that our beliefs show us are not the real ones. Sometimes they seem unreal for our great gathered values. It’s so good to reavaliate this erroneous view of beliefs reality, to make life better and full of hapiness. Thanks Morty for being a part of our new reconstructed reality. Marcia
Hi Marcia,
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Regards, Morty
i had readings done in 96-98 & they just roll on past like a movie many things told me thought oh thats already happened then birthdates & signs air fire water earth etcs keeps rolling on so please explain that…???
told would just have to sit through them & some you will hear about & cant do a damn thing about…!!!
she was so accurate its still spinning me out..!!
wish had not lost the tape & pages wrote from tape…!!
Could it be that you’ve allowed you’re own beliefs and perceptions to align so well with the reality that the psychic foretold that you’re now creating that reality?
There was a study done some time ago in America where they found that an unusually high amount of people were crashing into a pole along a stretch of high way. There was a good distance in between each pole yet people were crashing into the poles themselves a lot of the time, scientists wondered what the hell was going on… it turns out that when people would lose control of their cars the first thing they would look at is the pole, and they would think, oh crap “pole”… and ultimately since they inadvertently had focused on the pole a large amount of them would end up crashing into it.
The same principle applies to life, perhaps you find yourself inadvertently or on purpose creating the very circumstances the psychic spoke of.
I suspect, as do many others that our beliefs and our expectations about future reality have a much more profound effect on the world around us then we could ever imagine.
Remember, separation is a myth created by our minds, we are consciousness and everything in the known universe including us is energy which we are a part of – there is no separateness – this isn’t whoo whoo spirituality I’m talking about, Einstein himself said this. So given that we are actually in a very REAL way interconnected with everything, don’t be surprised if you’re beliefs and expectations are having an impact on the things and people around you as well!
Hi Dima,
Thanks for taking the time to comment on another post. With such comments we can make a difference in the lives of others.
Regards, Morty
Hi Magdolna,
My experience is that you can make radical changes in your life when you eliminate a bunch of limiting beliefs. Your chart may describe predispositions, but not how your life MUST turn out. You can determine that with your beliefs.
Regards, Morty
This reminds me of the first few lessons in the course in miracles that says we only see the past and things only have the meaning we give them. Your examples above help explain those statements well.
Thanks for your detailed explanation.
Hi Val,
I’m glad this post helped you better understand some of the Course in Miracles material.
Thanks for the comment.
Regards, Morty
I just realized just how much impact beliefs have on our lives, this is amazing. Thanks for this post and keep up the good work Morty.
Hi Alex,
Getting how powerful beliefs are is the first step. The second, and more important step, is eliminating the limiting beliefs so as to free yourself from them.
Regards, Morty
Morty, great article. I write about this sort of thing all the time on my blog and its very powerful. Once metaphor I like is that beliefs are like bullies, they seem really powerful until you challenge them (poke them in the gut) then they fall down like a deck of cards. Or reform into something better. Simple principles, not so simple for most people to put into practice. Even King Solomon recognised that “every man is right in his own eyes” and that our brains are self-organising and self-reinforcing when it comes to perceptions. Thanks for a clear statement on the matter.
Hi Doug,
Glad you found this post useful. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Regards, Morty
Since doing your course, phone sessions, and daily meditation, i still observe the same things happening in reality, people over reacting to things, people having “bad” reactions to what i say or do out in the world. But the calmness i now often react to their reactions with, does, in a way, effect the phisical world that i sense, as this calmness compleatly changes how they act, regardless of the meaning i place on that, I see a change in their facial expressions and bodylanguage, just a thought!
Hi Ian,
I’m thrilled that you are creating your own experience of life, regardless of the circumstances. And that changing your experience seems to change others also.
Regards, Morty