How we "create our experience"
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 5:45 pm
Hi... maybe this is silly, but I worked on this puzzle for 57 years (this lifetime) and feel I have it solved (at least for myself).
Here goes -
Everything really seems to depend on one's attitude and one's attitude is a choice.
So I will attempt (for the first time) to complete the circle -
We wake up in the morning... open our eyes and we realize once more... "Ahhh this world again," and "Ahhh through these eyes again which is a part of this body." Maybe we do not consciously think this but most of us experience this awareness (once again).
And so then we (through the primary lens of a body/mind) experience this world (again).
These experiences shape our world view.
Based on our world view, we form (with full, 100% responsibility) out attitudes.
Our attitudes then generate our intentions.
Our intentions are foundational to everything we -
a. ) think (I have one caveat here to be explained at the end*),
b.) speak/write (our words) and...
c.) ... do.
And all these things we think, speak/write and do impact the shaping of our world...
... the very world we experience each day anew when we wake up in the morning.
*We are aware thoughts can be implanted... thus I use the following process -
I have a thought though I know not from where it comes. But I am now "me" examining this thought. Is this thought a thought I wish to own? If I say, "Yes," then I am now 100% responsible for this thought.
And regardless of whether I use the above process, if I allow a thought to progress into words (written or spoken) and/or actions, then regarding these words and/or actions, I am always 100% responsible.
The above is a formula of how I see life works... and I conclude (as stated above) that my attitude is a choice.
I cannot know if any of what I wrote above may be true for any other.
But I make odds high that it is true for many of us.
Here goes -
Everything really seems to depend on one's attitude and one's attitude is a choice.
So I will attempt (for the first time) to complete the circle -
We wake up in the morning... open our eyes and we realize once more... "Ahhh this world again," and "Ahhh through these eyes again which is a part of this body." Maybe we do not consciously think this but most of us experience this awareness (once again).
And so then we (through the primary lens of a body/mind) experience this world (again).
These experiences shape our world view.
Based on our world view, we form (with full, 100% responsibility) out attitudes.
Our attitudes then generate our intentions.
Our intentions are foundational to everything we -
a. ) think (I have one caveat here to be explained at the end*),
b.) speak/write (our words) and...
c.) ... do.
And all these things we think, speak/write and do impact the shaping of our world...
... the very world we experience each day anew when we wake up in the morning.
*We are aware thoughts can be implanted... thus I use the following process -
I have a thought though I know not from where it comes. But I am now "me" examining this thought. Is this thought a thought I wish to own? If I say, "Yes," then I am now 100% responsible for this thought.
And regardless of whether I use the above process, if I allow a thought to progress into words (written or spoken) and/or actions, then regarding these words and/or actions, I am always 100% responsible.
The above is a formula of how I see life works... and I conclude (as stated above) that my attitude is a choice.
I cannot know if any of what I wrote above may be true for any other.
But I make odds high that it is true for many of us.