Your Thoughts Create Your Reality: What Your Posts Say About You

I’ve been experimenting with stream-of-consciousness status updates on my social networks. Just posting whatever pops into my mind instead of thinking about it.

While these posts have mostly been nonsensical, they’ve made me laugh pretty hard, if no one else. They’ve also reaffirmed why I’m so careful about what I say regarding my own life situation.

Because your thoughts create your reality. And when you post those thoughts publicly, you energize them.

The Snowball Effect

Normally, I wouldn’t post anything about lack, or even discuss it. I haven’t related to lack in any real way in quite some time. Traces do happen to us all from time to time.

As part of my stream of consciousness posting, I thought I should comment on the lack of mail I’d been receiving lately. Seemed harmless enough. But this was definitely a slight aligning with the lack I was feeling at that moment.

Even harmless ideas can snowball.

This harmless statement then generated comments that began to reinforce the feeling of lack, no matter how slight it started. These commenters weren’t wrong. It was a very logical thing to deduce from my circumstances.

The problem is that it was all too logical. As a logical person, I could easily deduce that there was a possibility that something negative might have occurred without my knowing.

Creating and Amplifying Potentials

From a harmless observation that I gave energy to by posting online, I had literally created and amplified a negative potential that I would never have thought of or given attention to otherwise.

And this potential was taking more of my attention solely because it was new and very easy to envision.

Of course, my default potential that everything in my life always works out is also easy to envision. But it wasn’t as shiny and new as the potential brought on by this status update.

So the question becomes: did my slight thought of lack pull to it a stronger reason to feel lack?

How Often Does This Happen?

If your thoughts create your reality, then I have to assume that this monitoring is important. This leads us to question how often our own worry has transpired from a seemingly harmless statement.

How often has a post about how much work stinks, our bad day, or an unwanted situation brought us responses that aligned with what we were saying and gave us further evidence that our statement was correct?

I’m inclined to think that this type of thing happens far more than we bother to notice.

Perhaps this type of thought monitoring seems ridiculous. But if by our mere public mention we’re creating reinforcement of the belief behind those statements, wouldn’t it be better for us to reinforce a belief that might actually benefit us?

Programming Reality

Do you have a social media policy that helps you bring into focus the things that you desire? Are you venting online, or creating productive, forward-thinking conversations that lead to more of the same?

If your thoughts create your reality, then social media is an amazing way to energize those thoughts. Some call this lifestreaming, using social media as a way to literally program reality.

What do your posts say about the reality that you’re creating?