What Is Your Reality?

How many times have you heard that Reality Is Perception? Have you ever considered that perceptions are created by emotional reactions to events and information? And your responses are creating your internal environment or reality?

Would you be surprised to discover that your soul growth lives in the environment within you? And that we each have the power to alter that environment?

This episode explores how we allow the outside world to dictate what's going on within us. How we can remedy that, and what changes follow when we do. 

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Original Music by Will Taylor & Strings Attached
In tribute to Guitarist David Glaser
Song: Gone for Now
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Transcript

Reality Begins In Us

Hello, I’m your host, Riverann. And this is Heart Sense. A podcast for aligning, strengthening, and opening our hearts, to a frequency of love that heals ourselves and our planet. Thank you for being here!

Have you ever felt you had no control over a reality that influences your thoughts and emotions? Would you be surprised to discover that your soul’s growth lives in an environment that exists only within you? And that our reality begins within us? With the limitations we accept or the strength we decide to embrace?

In todays episode we discover how we allow the outside world to dictate what’s going on within us. How we can remedy that, and what changes follow when we do. This subject keeps coming up in different forms, so I’m tackling it from every vantage point. Because it’s something I feel many of us are struggling with at this time. Please let me know if these episodes are helpful.

You know, Peace is more than freedom from disturbance. It’s defined as a stress-free state of security and calmness where things coexist in perfect harmony. We might all be tempted to say that given this definition, we’ve never really experienced peace. Because we have never seen a world where everyone is coexisting in perfect harmony. That requires a state of respect and equality. Where power, control and monetary wealth are not the objectives.

But you may have experienced at least one moment in you life when you felt peace. Perhaps it was in the womb, or when you were placed in your mother’s arms for the first time. Or when your father made sure you had what you needed.

The security of knowing we are loved and protected, brings gifts we sometimes forget to acknowledge. They serve to ground our spirits. If we are taught to go within ourselves and find our comfort zone there. We eventually learn that we are powerful enough to change what’s affecting us from the outside world. 

In this inner sanctuary of the heart, love births everything we will ever need to survive. But is everyone aware of this power within them? I think not or the world would be a different place. 

This sanctuary of freedom to feel and birth a new reality, opens us to personal transformation.  When we awaken to the knowledge that we are responsible for our state of being. We are no longer bound to compliance with negative influences. Instead we are called to remember there is no greater transfer of power, than the one we give ourselves to change our reality.

As a teenager I was tormented for being sensitive by peers I thought were friends. My compassion for others was viewed as a weakness. And we all know how bad behavior in adolescence thrives on the weakness of others. I didn’t know how to deal with ridicule. So I often caved in to insults targeted to diminish my character.

One day I’d had enough!  I decided to take charge of my emotions by praising my heart. I told myself that these girls were cruel and unworthy of my friendship, and had no idea who I was. That one day, they would really see me, and apologize for how they had treated me.

Like any child, rejecting even an unhealthy relationship made me feel extremely alone. However, those thoughts became my armor and strength. I affirmed this reality within my heart with a knowingness that assisted me in eventually disengaging with them. But I preserved my integrity and self image.

Seven years later I ran into one of those girls - now a young woman, in a class together at the university I was attending. Without my invitation, she came up to me and apologized for her hurtful behavior that had made me a target for their entertainment. How often have you ever seen that happen? But it did!

The inner reality I’d created by not abandoning my heart, has been a guide on my life’s journey ever since. I discovered how important it is to validate oneself instead of waiting for acknowledgment from the outside world.  My compassion became an identifying reality that connected me with my individuality and my life purpose. 

They say, reality is perception. How we see things either enables us to be powerful leaders and change agents, or jellyfish in an ocean. And jellyfish, basically act as predators controlling the population of smaller organisms. Until they become a food source for a larger fish.

Sounds a bit like some of the competing egos seeking ultimate power in the world, doesn’t it? I choose to know my reality from the inside out. Not the outside in.

However, I occasionally have to put on my boots, and strengthen my heart when the external world encroaches on my peace. It always requires I return to the reality within to guide my thoughts & actions. 

To my thinking, this is where the strength for leadership originates. We may be inspired by others. But we discover who we are by cultivating a garden within to feed our spirits. 

For me, it means I have to feel my presence as larger than life and absent of fear based realities. Unafraid of being stung by a predator only aware of itself. Unafraid that anything but my own fear can take me down. Can you envision a reality within your heart that protects you from succumbing to a fear based environment?

I have found that the small divine voice within acknowledges my differences with applause. There’s a secret to connect with it. You have to first recognize your individual gifts. And train yourself to affirm the positive attributes of your character or personality. 

Don’t allow anyone displaying an absence of moral values or integrity dismiss your heart’s authority. Refuse to be influenced by opinions, misinformation, and rhetoric that challenges your inner guidance. We all possess a stream consciousness that determines how awake or asleep we are. When you defer to your inner guidance, the truth embraces your heart in a language you’ll understand.

This frequency of energy lifts and aligns us with a light of illuminating truth. Not a fabrication or distortion that serves only those with an agenda. Agendas will appear in any person or cause that seeks to convince us of something — positive or negative. It’s anything other than the guidance of your own spirit. 

So let’s not be fooled by what’s happening on the internet. Where you can find information to validate any belief. Or put our faith in leaders who attempt to influence with power over other people. Because You have the power! It doesn’t live outside of us. And we are the true ambassadors of change. The reality of living in the outside world is a  is chaos in a turbulent climate that limits our potential and destroys our peace. 

It’s so apparent that we’re at a crossroads, in the middle of great transformation on this planet. And our perceptions or realities will determine how we get through the changes affecting us. 

There are opportunities being presented for massive growth. If we choose to allow love’s intervention. It’s a personal choice everyone has to make. With lots of responsibility and commitment to create the reality we desire in consciousness that affects everything in our personal world.

Notice those who simply want to complain and blame. Do you see them engaging with their hearts in viable solutions that help us coexist in harmony? Are they placing themselves and their human demagogues above everything else? Do they participate in anything but negative conversation; or insert their rights to entitlement above all else?

Let’s not judge them, but simply witness our differences. Knowing that depending on a person’s lot in life and their consciousness, that everyone is doing their best. Our paths are different and yesterday you may have been on the same course. Our job to love beyond limits! To hold and envision the light that illuminates truth.

I confess that rarely is anything I talk about, something I’m not also working on. My connection to each of you and every life form on the planet, is a constantly evolving process that I dive into everyday. I share this information because I feel the frequencies challenging our all our life experiences.

Lately I’ve found myself with a spiritual machete working my way through the jungle of chaos, uncertainty, and fear. Moving into the light inside always easy. However it holds our hearts together. 

I keep receiving the message “Pay no attention to the human assessment.” Stop questioning. There’s a bigger plan unfolding we need to trust! Its why we agreed to be here at this time. Everything else is just a distraction to dilute our strength and confidence, in our abilities to uplift ourselves and the planet.

There is no going back. That’s a fearful agenda held by those who aren’t ready to move forward. Going back to old ways is a distraction, an illusion to limit our freedom to rise. When we are divided over perceived realities; we become afraid of one another and stop listening. This creates a reality of fear instead of comfort and hope for a better tomorrow and a joyful existence.

We have been gifted with the ability to discern options and create opportunities. Yet many allow themselves to be manipulated by an external reality that defines them. 

What do animals do when they’re fearful? They run, hide, gather in a circle to protect their young, or they engaging in conflict only to survive a threat? We refer to these reactions in people as fight or flight. 

However, the human race looks for conflict when dissatisfied. Creating wars to destroy and alienate us from the commonalities of our species as they blow up the planet nurtures us. 

Animals don’t destroy their habitats. Their presence helps our earth stay in balance.  It’s human that perceptions foster an alarming reality often associated with conquest instead of connection. These distorted views of reality that have penetrated our sense of self through religion, politics, and diversity that should have made us stronger. But they represent an old paradigm no longer useful for our human evolution. So pay attention to what you allow into your sacred heart space.

Will we continue on this path? I’m of the opinion that many of us are here to assist with breaking that mold, for a New Earth. At least that’s why I’m here; and what my guidance has shown me. 

If we can create an internal reality that pairs with our dreams. We can nurture and activate an inner strength for peaceful coexistence in alignment with the greater good for all. I personally will never resonate with a reality based in dark prophecies that disengage us with our human potential and rob us of peace. 

The choice is clear to me. We have two paths… a perpetual downward spiral of insanity that will consume the soul’s journey home. Or the power to free ourselves and birth a New Earth, by seeding our hearts and our reality with hope, peace and possibility. 

Creating strength truly begins with our inner reality. 

OUTRO

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Thanks to Will Taylor for providing his original music for this episode from his CD, “Gone for Now”. It’s a beautiful tribute to his connection with one of his fellow musicians he created fabulous music with. You can find a link to Will’s music in the show notes and online by going to: stringsattached.bandcamp.com

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