Today is Halloween, the time of year when scary ghosts, goblins, witches and demons of all sorts roam around. Or at least in my neighborhood, the kids are dressed up that way while they go trick or treating.
Halloween can be a scary time of year for some. Scary movies, haunted houses. Others find it super fun and not scary at all. Fun parties, trick or treating. What is the difference?
In my experience, and what I often observe in others’ experience as well, the difference plays out the same as any other external circumstance:
- We observe an external circumstance occurring
- We have a thought about it in the moment
- Our thinking creates our experience of that circumstance
- We generate a feeling about our thought
- Which then creates a belief
Our thinking can be scary one moment, and fun and light the next. The only variable is the meaning we attach to a thought in that moment.
Another way of looking at this is to consider that our experience is created purely via thought. We operate, not as cameras, but as projectors. We don’t see something (camera) and then that something makes us feel a certain way. Instead, we see something, have a thought about it, and our thought is creating our reality. In other words, the thing we are observing is not causing us to do, or feel, or act, or believe. Our experience is only ever created by thought.
Sydney Banks, the enlightened welder who discovered the Principles of Mind, Thought and Consciousness said “If the only thing that people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.” This is great news for us all.
