Your Mind Creates Your Reality
Take it from someone who knows, your mind is the one doing all the work
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I looked I really did, but I was unable to find who first said that “your mind creates your reality.” If you look on Google, you will find a number of podcasts and success articles that talk about the topic. You can even find a poster for your wall with the quote on it. All you need is $44.
Still, I can find who wrote it first.
I know the quote because I always use it. I believe in the concept completely. I owe the progress I have made recovering from mental illness to embracing the idea that if my mind thinks a thing hard enough, it will come to pass.
One thing I have been doing for the past five years is improving a little bit each day. I could not improve at all if I did not believe that I can recover from my severe mental illness. Five years ago, I attempted suicide, so at that point, I was as low as a person can go. I almost died, but I didn’t, so I have to attribute that to the universe not being done with me yet.
I knew back then that there was a reason I was still around, and I needed to figure out what that reason was. I also knew that drastic change doesn’t work well when you are dealing with a mental illness, so I knew I would need to make up my mind that every day from then on, I would work to improve one thing a little bit.
To make my mind create my reality, I had to have the supreme belief that if I wanted it bad enough, I could recover, and if I wanted to be a success, I had to will it to happen before it actually would.
Five years later, and yes, I still have a mental illness, but I am able to handle it much better than I did before. I have gotten to a point where most days, I am able to manage my psychosis, depression, and anxiety. There are still those days when my illness gets the best of me, and I am working on that. There are still days when I head down the rabbit hole no matter how much I will my mind to maintain my mood. There are still days when I am suicidal and the voices won’t leave me alone, and those are the days I have to practice self-care and do whatever it takes to get myself back to a place where I can maintain my moods and composure.
But the work I have done in the past five years has given me days where I am able to write, where I can be human and interact with my family and friends, and where I can work on my goals and get myself one step closer to the success I so crave.
New Challenges — Your Mind Creates Your Reality
Now, recently, there are new challenges I must meet head-on. I just recently had a heart attack, and because I didn’t have insurance, I had to pay for the angioplasty I needed to save my life out of pocket. We begged and borrowed from family and friends just so I could pay my bill and get out of the hospital.
In the process of paying for that bill, we used money earmarked for my house, so we were also in danger of foreclosure. In the end, we had to ask for help through crowdfunding and create a GoFundMe to help us get out of the hole.
We truly did not know where to turn.
During this time, I became convinced that, because of my past, and having been broke for so long, it would always be like that. I was a man with a severe mental illness and now heart disease. I started to think maybe broke was the default I would have to live with for the rest of my life.
But I forgot something important. Your mind creates your reality.
If I believed I would be broke for the rest of my life, that is what would happen. If I believed and let my heart disease rule my life, I wouldn’t live long. I had to believe I could reverse the damage, and I had to know that I could find my way to the other side of destitution.
Sure, I’d been poor up until now, but before the heart attack, we were on our way to finally pulling ourselves out of the mud financially. With my mental illness getting better, I was starting to write more and was working on projects that could have pulled is out of poverty.
Now was not the time to lose hope and start believing that I would always be poor.
In order for me to improve my situation, I had to use my mind to create the reality I wanted. I had to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would succeed in life, and I would fix my financial situation.
The GoFundMe was a good start because I needed to accept the help that people were willing to give. The next step was to start putting out my feelers to my network and finding jobs that would fit within the accommodations and constraints I was limited by because of my mental illness.
It is possible to be a success even if you have mental health issues, I only needed to believe that with every fiber of my being and every part of my mind.
Now it’s time to do the work it will take to improve my situation, and unlike my mental health problems, I needed this solution to be drastic because I have people I owe and bills to pay. I need to be able to come out of my corner swinging because if I don’t knock out these financial problems soon, the fight will be over before it started.
How the Idea that “Your Mind Creates Your Reality” Can Work for You
Just like I believed that I could help my mental illness by improving just a little bit each day, and how I know that I can change my situation just by knowing without a doubt that I can be a success, you first need to ensure that your mind knows the reality of the situation.
If your mind knows you will be a success financially, you will be. If you know without a doubt that you will meet someone special if you are patient, your mind will create the right opportunity for you. If you believe one day you will be a famous author, your mind will make the necessary leaps and create the building blocks you need to be a great writer, like writing every day and studying the craft.
No matter what it is that you believe, if you know it without a doubt, your mind will make the arrangements for you to be a success.
This is not to say that you can sit back and let your mind do all the work. If you want something bad enough, you have the take the steps to make sure that what you want is sure to happen. Just like I didn’t sit back and let my mind fix my mental illness, I did the research, and the reading, and put in the work needed to get me to a point where I felt like a success.
I repeat - you cannot sit idly by if you want your mind to create your reality. You must put in the work. This concept is not some kind of glitter-up-your-ass-toxic-positivity, it involves you doing hard work to meet the goals your mind is setting for you.
There is nothing new age about this idea because it involves putting your mind and body to work.
And don’t quit when things start to happen for the good, if you keep going when great things start to happen you won’t believe just how high you can go. The sky is the limit if you get your mind and body moving in the same direction at the same time.
I am still slowly working on my mental illness, even now as I work drastically to help myself financially. I know the two things together will help one another and I know some of the same things I do to help one will aid the other.
Above all, keep believing in yourself and your goals. Should you falter in belief even for a little while, you will lose the momentum you have created for yourself. You must believe the concept that your mind creates your reality without fail.
Keep up the good work, and you will meet your goals and go beyond what you ever dreamed was possible, as you continue to put in the work always remember the mantra that your mind creates your reality.
As I mentioned, I am crowdfunding to help offset some of the costs I incurred when I was in the hospital for my heart attack. It would mean a lot to my family if you could help:
