Creating Realities

Understanding the working mechanism of our brain is equivalent to understanding how to create a life based on our own choices. Of course a strong faith in one’s creator or one’s talents, depending upon one’s religious beliefs, must be present, which, once again, is linked to the working of the brain. It is that miraculous gift of God (or any Supreme Being that one believes in) which is tremendously ignored in our day to day life whereas, unforeseen factors are held responsible for failure or success. By turning the pages of history, we learn that the pivotal difference between successful and unsuccessful people is the brain. Both, successful or unsuccessful people had 24 hours a day, almost the same human strengths and weaknesses, same body parts, same brains but different ways of using their brains that made them either successful or unsuccessful. Any person, even with average intelligence, is bound to know that successful and unsuccessful people use their brains differently, but how and why? That is the six million dollar question.

The biological complexity of the brain is as fathomless as an ocean and as limitless as the universe. However, the topic of this research focuses on the language of the brain i.e. pictures or images. It is this language that stands out as being of crucial difference between successful and unsuccessful people in any walk of life, regardless of whether they are involved in religion, science, technology, medicine, social welfare, warfare, leadership, finance, business, education or sports. This single most factor i.e. the brain pictures can make a ‘heaven of hell’ and a ‘hell of heaven’. History provides us with ample proofs of how common men and women achieved unbelievable successes and how successful people were reduced to nothing based on the way of their thinking in the form of pictures.

The brain thinks in pictures and when these pictures are embossed in our subconscious whether by continuous exposure to a particular set of pictures, by intentional practice or by the force of powerful feelings like those of love, gratitude and revenge, the brain creates them. Yes, creates the reality. The brain does not know good or bad; it only creates what it is fed. This might be shocking for some of us for how can mere seemingly fragile ideas create definite realities—realities that often are unbelievable. Thomas Edison first thought, then invented and all of his inventions were created only after he had seen their pictures in his brain. Masterpieces in literature like War and Peace, Gone With the Wind, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Dickens’s novels and last but not least, Shakespeare’s marvellous works were first created in the form of brain pictures and ideas then translated into physical reality. The creators of these sublime classics believed in the beauty of their ideas, pictures and dreams and they saw the reality in their own lives. Such examples as these are not only found in history but also in our own lives. The problem is that we, unaware of the powers and working patterns of our brains, take our successes or failures to be the outcome of luck, chance and circumstances, favourable or unfavourable. We forget that we are the creators of our realities because our realities, whether we like them or not, are the offspring of our thoughts and thoughts are always in the form of pictures. This proves that thoughts are not useless intangibles but they have more power than the brain itself where they are born. If there are no thoughts, then there are no realities and hence no good or bad outcomes. This leads us to impress on the importance of our thought processes. We have to change the brain pictures i.e. our thoughts according to our desires if we wanted to translate them into realities that are according to our appetites. Metaphorically, an idea in picture-form is the soul and a reality is the transformation of that soul into a physical body.

Generally speaking, people are either success conscious or failure conscious and they become either successful or unsuccessful, respectively in their lives. Before understanding the truth of this statement, let us talk about another miraculous quality of the brain—its magnetism. This means attracting realities on the principle of the Law of Attraction—a scientific truth based on which the whole universe in working. In order for the brain to attract realities from the universe, it must have pictures clear enough and embossed in its subconscious. So, the language of the brain and its magnetism are just two different sides of a coin. Here is an example to illustrate this point. They say love and fragrance cannot be hidden but very few take into account the powerful brain activity operating in the background. When a boy falls in love with a girl (love is a very strong emotion through which the brain releases very powerful frequencies) he creates pictures of his beloved in his mind and these pictures are extremely clear, sharp-edged, and vivid enough that he can even feel them because he does this visualization exercise with full concentration day in, day out. He imagines the beauty of his beloved and keeps giving his brain suggestions to convince it that she is the most beautiful person on earth. Such suggestions as these, almost every day over a long period, do the magic: they chisel the pictures extremely vividly and make them real-life-like in his brain. His brain at this point, is profoundly concentrated (i.e. in meditation state) and vibrates at a very low but powerful frequency level. These talents of the brain are the sole requirements to attract reality. The girl’s brain receives the signals and she gets a feeling that the boy is in love and things move on as they wanted them in most cases. A highly concentrated brain with extremely vivid pictures is the backbone of metaphysical disciplines like hypnosis, telepathy, mesmerism and nobody dares to deny miracles these disciplines can perform.

In the light of the above discussion, when a success conscious person pursues any target in the form of clear-cut brain images, he sees himself as a successful person before he actually becomes successful. Along with this, his strong faith, the only antidote for failure, in his success adds to the pace with which he moves towards his goal.  Similarly, a failure conscious person fails because his brain is occupied with negative forces and energies of fear, worries, doubts and these are also powerful feelings like those of gratitude and love. If a person is worried about not performing well in exams, at his job, or losing money, a game of sport or is worried about going in debt, he will definitely face that feared of factor (e.g. if he is worried that he will not perform well in his exams, he will certainly not) because his mind emits negative energies and frequencies just to attract the same from the universe on the basis of the Law of Attraction. As discussed earlier on, the brain does not know the good or bad aspect of any picture or idea; therefore, it attracts or creates whatever it continuously sees. That is the reason most people who are having bad incidents happening in their lives remain in the same situation because they keep thinking about negative pictures and keep emitting and attracting negative energies. This is how they keep attracting more misfortune in their lives. Then quotations like: ‘misfortune comes on horseback and goes on foot’ seem to them very sweet and justifiable. The message in the above quotation is absolutely true but the fault does not lie anywhere else or outside; the fault lies within their brains or thought processes. They must understand that the misfortune coming on horseback is none other than the train of their own negative thoughts. They should focus on: ‘not failure but the fear of failure is the actual crime.’ Only God (or the Almighty Power one believes in) does not make mistakes; therefore He does not fail at all. All humans, are bound to fail somewhere in some of their enterprises but ‘successful failures’ are those whose brains do not dwell on negative pictures even after they experience setbacks; but rather block out negativity and are persistently focusing on positive pictures in the face of adversities because they know that the only way to change the course of events is to change their thoughts from negative to positive.

Another important point to note is that the brain attracts negativity easier than positivity. This argument looks very strange and apparently implies that the brain has this built in fault to attract negativity. This can lead the weaker ones to straightaway blame the brain for bringing bad luck into their lives. But this is not true. That the brain is neutral and powerful is an established fact. It only works on the input it receives. In our societies, as everyone witnesses, there are more negative people than positive ones for the reason that there are gossips about misfortunes haunting the world and hunting for its victims. These negative forces work in the form of print, electronic and social media with their all-time-presence in our lives; and the worst part of it is that they are with us in the form of mobile phones, tablets and iPads, even when we are in our worship places, where we seek peace and protection from all evils i.e. negativity.  Tabloids and newspapers with sensational stories lead in showering us with negativity. Similarly there are tabloid TV shows which keep on repeating negativity around the clock by forecasting crises after crises e.g. financial crises, wars, killings, droughts, earthquakes, heavenly objects racing towards our earth, joblessness and other depressing news. In addition to this, people’s opinions mostly concentrate on negative issues and they are so virulent in their nature that they affect almost all. Although advancement in technology has made our lives easy and fast, it has snatched our positivity considerably by stuffing our brains with negativity. That is why there are more people suffering from depression, tension and anxiety in these present times. All these negative forces are the cheapest commodities that we are picking, knowingly or unknowingly, from the stock market of the world. Therefore, the brain has not much work to do to create negative pictures as these pictures are always with us, inside and outside our houses. Everyone can imagine this massive influx of technology and its all encompassing impact in this gadget-rich world.

It would not be wrong to say that such factors as mentioned above, which represent negativity, are like weeds in a garden, growing on their own. We do not have to plough and sow them. Whereas, we have to really work hard to grow crops, fruit bearing trees and plants of our choice and these plants have to be protected against the onslaught of weeds. This is an understandable analogy where self-growing weeds are like negativity and other plants and trees are like positivity. We have to grow positivity in our brains intentionally through practice and toil, whereas, negativity, like weeds, grow easily, especially where the environment is perfect for it as it is in today’s world.

Our ancestors, however, were not that unlucky when they lived in a pure world in the absence of the influx of technology and corporate culture. Their brains were not under the spell of all these negative images that have become our luck. Today we have successful individuals, rather very successful in some cases, but we rarely see greatness which could be inspiring to our youth. We still teach our children the ancient figures (e.g. renowned religious leaders, scientists, astronomers, philosophers etc.) from which to draw inspiration and awe thus proving that today our brains are more exposed to negativity than positivity.

Let us now see how the brain can be utilized so we get the best out of it. Physically our brain is divided into the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. The heart, which is pumping life into all the organs of our bodies, beats; whereas, the brain vibrates at certain frequency levels known as Brain Wave Frequency (BWF) depending upon its levels of relaxation. Virtually, the brain can be divided into four different levels based on BWF i.e. Delta, Theta, Alpha and Beta levels and the brain vibrates at 0-4 BWF/second, 4-7 BWF/second, 7-14 and higher BWF/second, and 14-21 and higher BWF/second, respectively. Alpha level is the one which is associated with light sleep, meditation, intuition, no time-and-space limitations and it is this very level that is closely linked to the whole discussion above. Delta level is reached when humans are in deep sleep and unconscious. The brain is quite at rest at Delta. At Alpha level, the brain is in between sleep and fully awakened state. This state comes in when one is meditating or completely relaxed—a great blessing in itself. The Alpha state is where the brain is at its best and fully ready to create and attract. If the brain images, ideas and pictures are vivid and concentrated, the creation process is on and the brain emits patterns exactly like the radio or mobile frequencies to attract and create the desired. This means that in Alpha state our dreams and targets are getting closer to us every single second of the time but for this there are four paramount ingredients:

a)    The brain must be at its Alpha level or simply speaking it must be completely relaxed (a study suggests that speaking to one’s mother reduces one’s stress to an unbelievable level whether speaking live or speaking over the phone. So everyone can spot his or her relaxing technique)

b)    The brain picture (for example if one wants to pass an exam with a certain mark, or have a particular brand of car) must be as vivid as possible, that is  real-life-like

c)    A strong faith in the creator that He (depending upon one’s concept of the Deity) will provide the desired

d)    A burning desire to achieve targets

That is it. That is the recipe to achieve targets. Muscles are not needed to achieve worldly targets. All we need is a strong brain with right kind of pictures in the subconscious. If this recipe is difficult to practise, success is difficult to achieve; if it is easy, success is just at the doorstep. We need to open the door and welcome it. Success is not a well-dressed man or a beautiful woman; it is a state of the brain. Our only limitations are those we set in our own brains. The brain knows no limitations. Therefore, it is not clever to put fences around our own dreams and thought processes because by doing so, we limit our options and put fences around our lives which could otherwise have been exceptional.

The gist of this whole discussion is very easy to understand. To change the course of our lives we do not need to fight with outside factors; we have to work on our own selves and we have to change our thoughts for the better. The universe is inside us and if we control that, we control the outside universe. Almost all the holy scriptures teach us that the greatest victory is to conquer and control the ‘self’. In our daily lives, we let people’s opinions control our brains. This is a shame because choosing our own thoughts in the forms of pictures consciously is changing our life consciously because life is nothing but the reflection of our dominant thoughts. A long time ago, Samuel Taylor Coleridge mentioned the same in his beautiful poem Dejection: An Ode which sums up the discussion:

O Lady! We receive but what we give,

And in our life alone does Nature live:

Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!