Repetition = Reality

If you take a stick and light the end of it on fire, and then whip it around really quickly, it creates the illusion of a solid circle of light.

But we both could agree that that ‘circle’ isn’t actually a circle, but is rather the appearance of one being caused by the fast, repetitive motion of that single flaming point.

Aka: rapid repetition creates the illusion of solidity.

This is how a majority of us create our realities, albeit good or bad.

What if your ‘problems’ aren’t actually problems, but are rather a rapid succession of negative thinking and feeling that you’ve become habituated to every single day?

And so—going along the lines of the flaming stick analogy—you’ve created the illusion of a solid, free-standing problem in your life.

Even though that problem is just the recitation of negative thinking…

This really is how it works.

What you think consistently and persistently becomes your dominant reality. A reality of which you cannot unsee.

But it isn’t an objective reality. It’s relative.

It’s only real in relation to you whipping that flaming stick of your mind around in circles so fast.

Once you stop whipping the stick—aka, once you stop constantly thinking negatively—almost like a magic trick, the ‘problem’ disappears.

It’s because it was being maintained by your incessant thinking of it. The reciting of it that starts in the morning and goes on till you fall asleep.

Your thinking is like the legs under the table, and the table is the problem itself.

Cut out the thinking, and the problem can’t support itself.

Your ‘problems’ require your psychological participation in order to withhold themselves.

There’s a quote: Change your mind, change your life.

And that’s basically what I’m saying.

When you change your mind, and you change the contents of that mind, you change your entire reality.