by Kristin Madden
How many times have you looked at your life, or some situation, and asked yourself “Why me?” “Who created this?” or “Where did this come from?” It often appears that things just happen. But do they?
The answer may depend on what you believe.
I have several friends who believe a personified deity determines life occurrences and will reward or punish them according to their actions. This is what they experience. They can point to many specific instances as evidence of the validity of this belief. And this is real for them, but it may not be real for someone who believes in a different deity or no deity at all.
I know individuals who believe that life is hard, and it always is for them. As an objective viewer looking in, it sometimes seems to me to be harder than it needs to be. They tend to focus on the “glass half-empty” rather than appreciate the wonderful blessings of their lives.
Quantum mechanics theorists propose a participatory universe hypothesis, which states that the very act of observation influences the outcome of quantum mechanical experiments. The act of observation is said to give reality to a quantum particle; until observed it exists as possibility.
Although detractors may argue that quantum physics relates only to the physical sciences, it may just be that we, as observers and participants in our experience of reality, affect the outcome of events by our mere presence. Our beliefs and expectations give structure to the possible.
I sometimes hear people say that what they are experiencing must be someone else’s creation, because it is not what they expected or wanted to happen. While it is certainly true that the creations of others can affect us, our experience of these effects is our own creation. Just as it is possible for people to co-create wonderful shared experiences of growth and joy, we can also create some magnificent experiences of shared stress and suffering. Sometimes these creations are valuable for our continued development, but when we are unable to change our experience or even understand where it all came from, it ceases to be of personal value.
Why does this always happen to me? Who is responsible for this mess? Well, you may be, or more specifically, your accumulated lost beliefs may be. Harry Palmer describes this experience in Living Deliberately. “Lost beliefs form an invisible blueprint for feelings and actions, and without understanding why, we create or attract the circumstances that will fulfill them.” It appears to us that someone or something else is in control of our lives. We try and try to make a new start. We switch relationships, jobs, and religions. We move to another state or an exotic country. The same old stuff follows us everywhere.
Beliefs that may have once served a valuable purpose in our lives can persist long after they are needed by getting lost in our consciousness. They become so much a part of ourselves they no longer appear to be beliefs. They seem to be an integral part of who we are. “I’ve always been that way. It’s just who I am.” As we grow and change, so do our goals and view-points. When this change occurs, these beliefs get lost. We forget they were ever there, even though they continue to affect our experience.
These lost beliefs are outdated software. They were useful at one time but have since become obsolete as the hardware (us) has changed. Now, in order to install the new state-of-the-art programs, we need to delete the old stuff. The old stuff is not bad, nor are we to be judged for hanging onto it. It just is. If we really want to move forward and program an updated, preferred reality, it’s time to clear the hard drive.
Avatar is not only an excellent tool for clearing outdated mental software, but it guides us in remembering that we are creators of our reality. The tools equip us to choose our new software and to alter or eliminate it at will.
We are empowered beings, deliberately creating rather than merely observing the effects of our beliefs in our lives. With Avatar, we move beyond mental constructs to what distinguished physicist John A. Wheeler refers to as “the life-giving factor” that lies at the center of the whole machinery and design of the world. We recognize ourselves as Source. From that state, we create what we choose.Kristin Madden, New Mexico
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