#2, Choose Your Delusion, 40 Days of Self Appreciation

in #life7 years ago


Choose your delusion. All beliefs are fallible. Morality is subjective. There is no right or wrong. A belief is an idea you cling to with conviction. Beliefs exist within a paradigm of more general beliefs. If we know that beliefs are delusional, then why have them? We need them as motivation, the drive to forge on. Therefore, we choose which beliefs to entertain out of the sea of competing memes that is the culture. Choose wisely.

Every moment not spent enjoying the present is instead spent in delusional fantasy. The mind has an amazing way of projecting several possible futures ahead of the self, creating contingencies and worst case scenarios. This is, of course, a survival tactic. Our gift of foresight is what allows us to plan ahead, and our desires grow out of this sea of imaginings seemingly pulling us toward our goals. There’s a type of feedback that occurs wherein the material circumstances we encounter seem to reflect those things we have already imagined, whether desirable or not, consciously or unconsciously. After all, how can you be in the position to receive something if you were never expecting it in the first place? This is the heart of the law of attraction. In fact, everything else simply goes unnoticed, filtered out by the mind as noise. This means in order to receive what you want, you must not only decide in advance what is valuable to you but then proceed to create the conditions internally for those circumstances to find you. Then, when opportunity comes all you have to do is say yes. How can I say that indulging the imagination is time spent in a fantasy world? Because thats what the imagination is by definition. We have chronic anxiety toward the future when we should have faith in the present. By faith I mean quite simply this:

I know that no matter the outcomes in the future near or far, when I arrive there I’ll be content in the present knowing that things happen for a reason and I have the power to choose my response.

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I do agree. Not every moment has a good and bad thing. Its depend on us. How far you can keep learn.