Our reality contains good and evil of every description.
We get to choose which parts of our reality we choose to focus on.
Whether it’s the fear-based doom and gloom version, or whether it is beauty, truth, happiness–we have the final say.
Our brains register the information we feed them. And then they learn to look for more of the same.
The part of our brain called the Reticular Activating System (RAS) filters the millions of incoming pieces of information and only brings what it considers the ‘most important’ into our conscious awareness.
The things we habitually focus are among those the RAS considers important and will alert us to.
But looking at this from a spiritual and metaphysical perspective highlights the importance of focussing on the good, because these belief systems teach that we get more of what we focus on, and that what we give our attention to is what we invite into our experience.
(Given all of this, it makes it rather silly of me to have written and shared my last post. What can I say? Errare humanum est!)
Getting back to the subject at hand, this is why spiritual teacher Abraham invites us to become ‘Selective sifters of reality.’ They urge us to look for the good, and for what is pleasing, while ignoring the other stuff.
Seems dumb and childish, yes.
But it will save your butt all the same, because if you do not give your attention to the unwanted, then you will not invite it (or at leas invite more of it) into your experience.
So you can make a decision now to filter reality: to keep looking for the good, and to keep inviting more and more of this into your life.