We Create Our Own Realities - Life Hacks #1 - A Very Personal Story

I have seen and felt how we can affect the universe around us.

Further, I've tested it and reproduced the results.

This isn't a guide to becoming rich or famous, but instead what I'm doing is giving you a peek into how you can mold the universe around yourself.

Lately, I've been quite inspired by Jeff Berwick's talks about reality - about waking up and seeing through the matrix. I'm sure a lot of people in the Steemit community are familiar with him. He talks about anarchy, sure, but lately, if you follow him, he's talking more and more about creating your own reality. And like him, we came to these ideas in a similar time in our lives... only he is probably further into that journey than I am.

However, like Jeff Berwick, I too have seen first hand how we create our reality.

So let's start.

I think there are two key ingredients that help us recognize and shape our realities. The first being emotion. I'll explain why this is, but first, a little backstory...

I have been diagnosed as having "major depression" and "generalized and social anxiety". Anyone who has struggled with anxiety and depression knows the weight of the emotions it makes you feel.

Around 2 years ago, at the height of a wave of depression and anxiety, worsened by a situation at work, I was laying in bed in the morning, dreading having to get up, feeling a tremendous negative energy around myself. I mean REALLY negative energy. I ended up calling in sick that day, so it was a particularly bad spell. That morning, a few kids started playing outside my window in the driveway. I lived in an apartment at the time and my bedroom window was directly on a driveway where my car was. I was getting so angry at them for keeping me up, meanwhile hating my life and filling the room with bad energy as I continued to do nothing but fill the room with bad energy for a couple of hours. I finally got up, and when I went outside, the side of my car closest to the fence was scratched on every panel in circular swirls by a rock that the kids were also using to draw pictures on the concrete.

It's every panel and too deep to fix without spending more than what the car was worth, so I live with it. To be honest, I also keep it there as a reminder, but I digress.

Here's the thing - I completely believe that I attracted that and made it happen. I attracted a bad thing to happen to me simply through the feelings and thoughts I was having that day, and here's why I believe that:

I took a few weeks of annual leave from work to try to get my head back in order. I spent literally days doing nothing, laying there feeling terrible and negative in a freezing cold apartment with one single bad electric heater. My anxiety was so bad that I'd not eat for an entire day, and hardly move from an awkward sitting position on the couch, causing my back to ache because I couldn't figure out what I should get up and do. I was stuck in a loop of anxiety - I need to eat, but I need to go to the bathroom, but I should shower first, but I'm hungry, but I'm wasting the day so I should go out for a walk, but I need to go to the bathroom, repeat, repeat, repeat.

The more I did nothing, the more nothing happened. This is key. As I did NOTHING, nothing else happened. I'd get no text messages, no emails, nothing would happen. I'd go most of the day without eating too. I was in such a bad place.

And this is where the second ingredient to creating your reality comes in: creating ripples, or in other words, action and reaction.

For hours, even days, I'd do nothing. During this time, my emotions were high, but my actions were non-existent. I created misfortune through my negativity which manifested itself as damage to property (the kids and the car) but now nothing was happening. Literally nothing. No phone calls, texts, emails, tags on Facebook. It's like I didn't exist.

And here's where the second ingredient, the ripple comes in...

The second that I forced myself to get up and go for a walk... before I had even finished putting on my shoes and picking up my keys, my phone would receive a text message, or somebody would call, or there would be a knock on the door.

This went on for weeks. For days I would do nothing, and in return, nothing would happen, all the while I was in a terrible mental and unhappy state. The second that I pulled myself out of it and managed to do something, the phone would ring, I'd get an email, someone would knock on the door.

If it weren't for this being so visible at the time that I actually tested it for the duration of my leave, I wouldn't believe it, but now I'm convinced of it.

At the happiest times of my life when I was physically doing a lot, good things happened. If things started to get into a rut, I'd change something big in my life - where I lived, or where I worked - those things creating big ripples that worked their way outwards and changed something that would improve my life.

But, back to my personal experiment and experience in that apartment at the height of my anxiety and depression - I'm not sure if it was the more positive energy or the fact that I did something to cause a ripple in my universe and make other things happen, but that's what I found happened, not just that day, but many days afterward. It was always the same thing. The less I felt or did, the less anything happened around me. As soon as I moved and made a wave, then things started happening in the world around me again.

Isn't that weird.

I now think we're so tightly wrapped in the universe around us that all we have to do is move and it stretches and moves in response, while our emotions, positive or negative, change the picture from something good to something bad.

I've had many experiences since, and I can look back on a thousand times that life-changing things, both negative and positive, happened both as a result of emotion and ripples.

So next time you have a similar experience... there's very little activity in your life, your emotions are high, and nothing is happening, watch closely to what happens as you continue to do nothing, and then as you do something.

I guess the lesson here is to try to do something... physically do something.... and to try to turn those emotions into something more positive. I can't say that I've figured that part out yet. Not in a way I can control.

Maybe you'll get something out of this. If so, or if you have your own story to share, please tell me all about it in the comments below.

Part #2 is coming soon...