Reeeeally??

Is it a sunrise or a sunset?

Many humans will fight to the death for their beliefs. Friendships are lost and families divided when realities collide. Looking around you, it is obvious people believe things are absolute truth based on the “facts” of their programming. What programming? Culture, religion, family, education, and political systems. Some conditioning may have begun well intentioned enough but, regardless, it is still programming. People will report what they observe and what the “news” tells them is true and call that “Reality.” Yes, it is a reality – in fact their reality in that moment. It is just not absolute reality. 

Some cultures were programmed to believe being photographed would steal their soul away. If someone took their picture, they acted as if one took their soul. Others believed a certain act of a chief, or displeasing a deity, would result in losing their life. That conviction was so intense they had a heart attack, or such, and “spontaneously” died. That was their reality. Certain individuals can predict the future, can see things others do not, can communicate with spirits, can see happenings in parts of the world they are not. Once upon a time, these people were put in mental institutions or burned at the stake for being in league with the devil. In this perceived “now” of your time, these people are often revered and sometimes paid megabucks for their abilities. One reality was “then”. It is a different reality in your “now”. Some people in the “now” have war as their daily reality. Yet, in this same “now”, others live peaceful lives far from the awareness of anything else. Both “realities” are equally valid – equally real for those experiencing such. 

Women in different parts of the world even live through menopause differently. Indigenous cultures that weren’t “aware” of what others experienced didn’t go through menopause – at least not in the manner much of the “developed” world did/does. Yes, they experienced a cessation of their menses but didn’t have hot flashes or other hormonal changes they didn’t know they were “supposed” to suffer in that process. It was an exalted time honoring women’s transition to a status of higher wisdom. 

Then there is, what is now known as, the Mandela Effect. Whole groups of people absolutely remember things a certain way. But current history shows those clear group memories entirely differently. For more about that, there is plenty (currently) on the internet for your exploration. Many that believe one way will adamantly say the others are obviously “wrong” or have a “false” memory. Yet it’s just another example that one person’s reality isn’t necessarily the same as another’s. 

Fascinating how many people continue living realities they don’t prefer. They cling to the “facts” of what they see around them to define their reality. They act as if they have no power about what happens around or to them – living in more victim mode than they care to admit to others or even themselves. I remember when that kind of situation was my reality - when I thought this is just the way life is. That’s just what happened to me. And so believing – so it was.

You have no power over me...

Thankfully, I have claimed the power I forgot I had all along. Sure, I still have many areas of my reality I am playing with shifting. At the
same time, I celebrate the huge ways I have shifted and lived in an entirely different reality than others – in some cases, a massively different reality than the majority of the population of the planet as you know it. While I still have a long way to go…. Wait, that’s just a belief! I can change my perception in a day if I can just wrap my mind around it. Witness the games we play!

Then again, that’s just my reality! I share these musings as an invitation to you. Look around your life, your world. How can you reduce the things you imagine as distasteful and increase that which you desire? Since much has been programmed into you as reality for a long time, sometimes lifetimes, there may be many layers of belief which need to be shifted to allow for a more preferable reality. What beliefs keep you stuck feeling or experiencing things the way you do now? What would you need to believe to allow for the experiences you desire? 

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When I travel from one place to another, I really

feel like I am in another reality. Although there are still a few constants, there is an energetic shift to my core that feels like I am in a different world or an alternate life. My present reality still has me on a quest to find the Paradise of My Dreams. Recently, I thought perhaps it was time to let go of that pursuit. I’d seemingly been searching for so long with no apparent results. Within an hour of that serious consideration, the cup holder on my decadent hot chocolate told me something else. So, for now, I listen to my hot chocolate 😊 Maybe more on that next month. 

For “now”, I wish for you, in your today, an exciting adventure of your pleasing – unless, of course, that in not in alignment with your desire. Either way, I honor your experience. 

Until next time ~ Much Love and Appreciation ~ Michelle

Sunrise or Sunset?

Afterthought:

Since first hearing Grand Illusion by Styx, I so resonated with it. If you haven't heard it, or it's been a while, I invite you to listen to it again. I prefer the previous version but here it is with lyrics for those who prefer....