CREATING YOUR REALITY

If you are like me, this is the time of year that you do a review of the previous year and think about what you accomplished. You also start to set goals for yourself for the new year. I don’t personally make new year’s resolutions as such, but I do get out my paper and pen and set out some new goals for myself. It’s always a fun process – really thinking about what I want next in my life, and validating that I did indeed reach some goals that I had made for myself at the beginning of the previous year. This process, deciding what I want and then seeing it manifested, helps me validate the fact that we do indeed create our own reality.

The fact that we create our own reality is sometimes a hard thing to hear – that we have created the messes we may find ourselves in, or that we have created an illness, for example. When we are feeling stuck, the last thing we want is a friend telling us that we did this to ourselves. The good news is though – if you created the blocks in your life, you can also create change and healing.

I heard Dolly Parton interviewed once and she said that as a young girl she “expected” to be a star when she grew up. I loved that, because it is true that we create our reality through our beliefs and our expectations.

Do you know someone who always seems to be “lucky” in life, where things just seem to fall into their laps with no effort at all? And do you know someone who is always struggling with life, where life always seems to be dealing them an unfair hand? Why is that? It’s not that the lucky one was born more “blessed” than the other one. But there probably is a big difference in how they view life…how they believe life should treat them. The so-called lucky one believes that life is full of opportunity, ready for the taking. And the other one believes that if something is going to go wrong, it will - with them!

What are your beliefs? If there are things you are wanting to create in your life, but you just don’t seem to be doing it, you may want to examine your belief systems. Some of those beliefs may have been with you for a long time. There may be a part of you that doesn’t think you deserve it, or are not worthy of it, or that you are not capable enough to create it. You can change that.

We all have the ability to alter our inner belief systems – to start to create change in our lives. It sometimes takes an act of faith and courage to really look at our own blocks and believe that we can let them go – but believe it, you can!

Ó 2005 Jill Miller