Name: If We Create Our Own Reality, How Do You Explain Suffering? - Teal Swan
Uploaded: 2014-06-16T18:00:51.000Z
Duration: 23 min 25 s
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Spiritual teachers teach a wide variety of things, but every spiritual teacher has a forte.

Shadow work is work that involves bringing awareness to the deeper, more painful aspects of our psyches, things that are buried in the shadows of our unconscious mind.

The reason this is my forte is because I lived a life of unimaginable suffering.

I was in hell for many, many years, and the only way out of that hell was through it.

Because of it, I became an expert in human suffering.

And so today, I'm going to talk to you about a subject that I consider myself an expert in: suffering.

Suffering is perhaps the biggest issue when it comes to us trying to understand the universal truth of "you create your own reality" and "the purpose of your life is joy".

And who would blame us? How can we say that we create our own reality or that the purpose of our life is joy when we are watching people get killed by serial killers?

How does the child who gets chopped up into little bits create their own reality at the age of five?

How can it be that the purpose of your life is joy when we are losing loved ones to cancer, when we are in the middle of war?

It's very understandable that we have these kinds of opinions.

This is why it's so important that I'm the one talking about this subject.

Because, I am the child that opted into an experience of the most extreme forms of physical, mental, and sexual abuse that a person can experience and still remain alive after the fact.

So, it means more when I am the one that is telling you that you create your own reality, than when somebody else who lived a life of relative ease says the exact same thing.

It's difficult to listen to channels who aren't physically manifested, who have not lived lives of torture down here on planet Earth, tell you that you create your own reality and tell you that the purpose for your life is joy.

It's a lot easier to take when it's coming from the mouth of somebody who manifested those very things in their own life as a child.

And I can tell you myself, even though I was going through it, it wasn't obvious that I was creating my own reality. If it had been, I would have changed it. It is obvious in retrospect.

Our entire reality is being arranged around us like a 360-degree mirror reflection of our thoughts. Our senses perceive this reflection and translate it into a physical experience for us.

And so you can think of it like a learning hologram. When we are born we know we create our own reality by virtue of what we are paying attention to.

This is why it is so easy for babies to ignore you.

But pretty soon we get more flack by the people around us for ignoring the things we don't want to pay attention to, than we do for paying attention to them.

And so, we pay attention to them. But the minute we pay attention to them we begin to manifest those things in our reality and we begin to feel like victims.

Eventually we forget that we create our own reality. Sometimes this happens before we are even born.

We are influenced by the thoughts of those who are in our environment, especially our mother, even when we are in the utero.

So we may adopt these vibrations before we were even born.

That means many of us are creating our own realities before were even born. That's why we even line up with the birth that we do.

But once we have forgotten that we create our own reality, we fail to recognize the precursor for experiencing things in our reality.

We lose our awareness of what we are thinking in order to make ourself a match to what we experience and so we become victims to a world that we think exists separate from us,

We forget that this reflection environment is as non-biased as your bedroom mirror is.

It has no judgment about whether what you were thinking is good or bad for you, or whether it is right or wrong for you to think, or whether it should or shouldn't reflect it back to you.

It simply becomes the exact reflection of your thoughts.

Then later on, we trip across this truth or this idea. Itʼs a philosophy at first that we create our own reality, and we immediately go to a space of self blame about it.

Because we go to a space of self blame we feel defensive.

We are really angry about the fact, as if the original event is not painful enough, that now I have to add on top of it that I did it to ourselves?!

I'm the one that created my son dying? I'm the one that created my divorce?

I'm the one that lined up with a dad who raped me every night?

But this is not the truth of it. It is not anyone's fault.

Because, if we knew that we were creating our own reality in the midst of it, we would stop doing it.

You can't blame yourself for something you didn't even know that you were doing.

Like I said, this mirror hologram is non-biased.

It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong for you to think these things.

It literally is: "I think a thought...it's reflected."

No judgment about this type of reflection.

No judgment about whether the reflection is right or wrong.

No judgment about whether it should or should not be there. It simply becomes the reflection.

The universe is not going to save you from your own mind because it is not ignorant to the truth of who you are.

It sees you as what you are which is an extension of itself, an extension of this universe, and so you are no more or no less a God than it is.

And if it recognizes the God aspect of you, why would it intervene?

It sees every being in existence as God manifested, and so why would it intervene at all?

It would not intervene even in the experience of a tiny infant.

Perhaps to understand this, it would help if I use my own story as an example in terms of how I created my reality.

I did not intentionally create a reality in which I belong to a psychopath and was tortured, like I was as a child. This happened by default.

I was around my motherʼs fear which she adopted from her father and he adopted for his father before him....etc...etc....

Because our thought patterns work like genetics, they are passed from one generation to the next until we realize we can deactivate them.

I adopted my mother's fear; I began to think maybe if she is so big and powerful compared to me, after all she can reach the top shelf in the kitchen and drive a car, then maybe she is right about the world, maybe it is a scary place to be.

That one thought which I thought, set in motion an entire cascade of events that resulted in me losing my childhood. I began to attract scarier and scarier things.

I begin to feel like a victim, and the more I felt and thought like a victim, the stronger that vibration became until eventually the reflection of the depths of my own thoughts of victimhood took the shape of a psychopath.

In order to get away from the hell I had created for myself, all I did was reverse this process.

I began to focus on things that made me feel free and empowered, which led me to thinking thoughts that made me feel free and empowered,

until the reflection of the heights of my own thoughts of freedom and happiness took the shape of an opportunity to run away.

I could not have gotten away, if it were not for swallowing the pill that I am in fact in charge of my reality, that I had unintentionally created the very torture I was living in.

It was a hard pill to swallow. I went to a place of self-blame at first, until I realized that no one was to blame.

I was just living the unbiased reflection of my thoughts and beliefs, which whether or not they were or weren't true, were the ones I continued to give energy to.

An argument comes up over and over again by those who don't believe they create their own realities and it goes like this:

Those of you who believe that you create your own reality, believe in that belief the same way that some people believe in the false sense of God.

It's because even though it's an erroneous belief, we don't create our realities,

it makes you feel good, kind of like a pacifier or a pollyanna way of thinking about the universe, so that you feel like you are more in control than you really are.

So this belief, by skeptics, is seen as us sucking on a binky, so that we can cope with the lives that we are living.

I'm the first to tell you, that if you don't actually try to see whether this might be true for you, then you are never going to be able to prove to yourself that it is true or that it isn't.

But I can tell you personally, that it is exactly how I got myself out of my childhood situation when I was a child.

I am living proof that we create our own reality, which is why it's so important for me to be standing in front of you talking about that today.

But, I do have a question for those of you that believe you don't create your own realities.

Let's put the truth of it aside. Let's pretend it doesn't matter whether it's true or untrue that we create our own realities.

Do you really feel better living in reality where your belief is that people can be victims.

Do you feel better when you think that it's possible that just by happenstance and a turn of bad luck that a child can be born to parents that kill them?

And if not, why are you making that choice?

Why is truth, what you are convinced truth is, so important to you that you would keep it, even though it continues to cause you pain, even though it continues to make you feel like a victim, even though it hurts you every single day?

If it feels better to you, to think that you don't create your own reality, that no one does, why does it feel better to you?

Universally, you see our negative thoughts as an invitation for negative things to happen to us.

Our fearful thoughts are an invitation for things that scare us to happen to us.

And so often we see victims as the underdogs.

When we fail to realize that victims,  I can talk about myself in this scenario, we are the ones that are thinking thoughts which reflect in the mirror hologram as a tack.

No being that is imbued with consciousness, whether that be a human or an animal or plant, is exempt from this law that you create your own reality.

You are creating your own reality whether you like it or not or whether you know it or not.

A bit like you don't need to know about the law of gravity to be held to the surface of the earth.

It's happening. You're doing it. And the more aware we can be of this process, the more that we can take responsibility for lives and create the kind of lives we want to be living.

And let me tell you, from Sourceʼs perspective, there is no way that we would choose to opt into a life that is purely sunshine, gum drops and roses.

Why? Because there's no forward movement and no expansion for that kind of experience.

If you came down and everything that you were living was in a state of perfection, there would be nowhere else to go.

Your desires propel you forward, and the necessary conditions for you to give rise to your desires is to experience unwanted things.

So why might an entity, a soul as you call it, choose to come in to experience the life of a fetus who is to be aborted?

We could call that existence a life of suffering.