How We Create Our Reality
It’s not pseudo-science: you’re already doing it.
“Change your thinking, change your life…
Whatever you can dream, you can achieve.”
We find echoes of this idea bouncing around multi-level marketing rallies, to Tony Robbins, to New Thought churches, to t-shirts at Target.
The Secret, which has sold millions of copies, claims to teach you how to unlock the hidden potential of the universe to bring all that you desire into reality. Miracle Morning touts affirmations as an important part of your morning routine. And athletes tell how important visualization is to their sport.
Regardless of the modality, the simple explanation is this: focus on the desired outcome in your mind and it will happen. This isn’t a new idea — not by a long shot. Back in the 1800s, Emerson said “Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.”
I create reality by taking an idea in my mind and bringing it into existence.
Going back hundreds of years, people have held the belief that the human mind is capable of changing reality. In some ways, it’s obvious that we create our…
