What is Real?

My life has been dotted with "things" happening, just "knowing" things, things materializing when I needed them, "loving feelings" that were all encompasing, for patients that I was with, that I knew were to show me something, but were for the patients benefit. So many things that I just took as normal in my life. Then I started hypnotherapy and I went to different worlds, understood myself in different ways and I came to wonder, Is what I see and believe as this world, nothing more than a reflection of what I understand in a "different" world? If I can see how I have created things in my life, based on what I believed to be true, am I actually creating this whole world that reflects exactly what I believe, in some part of me. Is it just showing itself to me in this world so I will look at it and think, "I don't like this in my life, why do I keep bringing this into my life, I am ready to change this." Then, in hypnotherapy, or in meditation, I will come to an understanding of why I believed this to be true or I would come to understand that this is not actually true. In hypnotherapy, just awake, talking about my special place, I was able to fly like an eagle, as an eagle. I felt the power of an eagle and I really WAS that eagle. It seems to me that in trance I can go to this whole other world where I am so much more and I realize that THIS is who I am, not this "person" who I believe myself to be.
I would really appreciate others comments on what they have witnesed in hypnotherapy and what they understand differently because of this.

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Permalink Reply by Donna Carter on October 5, 2008 at 2:20pm

Since the territory is not the map...

if we change our thoughts...consciously or unconsciously - we could/would change our map.
I mean... we do not have access to ONE actual reality, right?
It makes sense to me that in hypnotherapy it is easy to change (lasting or only in that moment) our reality because our imagination has less boundaries.
Also, when in hypnosis I think it is easier to look past what we are already aware of (our map) and maybe have more awareness of other things (seeing more of the territory)?
So to answer the question: nothing is real.
Which brings a big sigh of relief to me...because if nothing is real ~once that is known~ makes "HOPE" more alive and CHANGE more accessable.
Thinking that: Nothing is real...
totally changes my perception of life itself.
It also draws me closer to living in the moment...
I love it!
~D

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on October 5, 2008 at 4:56pm

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one”.
Albert Einstein

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Permalink Reply by Steve Andrade on October 5, 2008 at 6:46pm

Hi Wendy, (I like that name, I have a crush on someone I play tennis with named Wendy),

Anyway.......

What you feel in trance or with your imagination is your mind at work. And what wonderful minds we do have.

So if your mind, while it thinks it’s being an eagle, makes or allows you to feel something you enjoy, your mind can also allow you to feel just as good as being the person too.

It’s the same mind.

The senses that are stimulated when you are an eagle are really the person senses and it is the person that is feeling.

Maybe there is a message in being the eagle that when applied properly, can transform the person to feel the same feelings normally that were felt as the eagle…..soaring freely, carefree, confident….what ever those feelings were or are, are human feelings, person feelings, and that is a wonderful thing.

Yes I have opinions on other dimensions but that’s not what’s important here.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: you can feel as good as you need to feel and that can be better than being an eagle. We have the ability to pretend with our imagination to be an eagle, I doubt if eagles can sit atop of a tree and pretend to be humans no matter how hard they try.

We have a miraculous mind……becoming a hypnotherapist for me was all about understanding that principle.

Do you think it is possible to feel better than it can feel imagining one is an eagle?

Is being the eagle, the peak?
What about being a flock of eagles, what about feeling what a human would feel if he or she were a cheetah running full speed, turning on a dime…..and if you were to use your fantastic imagination to experience what it would feel like, I'm sure it could feel also incredibly real and good.

I’m grateful for my mind and imagination…. I choose to enjoy both and call them one and the same just for simplicity….because just as you do, I can and do create my own reality, consciously or unconsciously every day.

Life is a wonderful thing. Imagination is one of the fantastic benefits of being human.

Enjoy
Steve

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on October 5, 2008 at 7:00pm

I like the way you think -D

"Thinking that: Nothing is real... totally changes my perception of life itself.
It also draws me closer to living in the moment...
I love it!"

When we change our minds - it automatically changes our brains, physiology and experience - On the other hand, just because the map is not the territory - does not mean that the territory is not the map-- or does it?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on October 5, 2008 at 7:01pm

There is a wonderful line about reality in the Matrix, (the movie)
Quote:
Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?
[Takes a bite of steak]
Cypher: Ignorance is bliss.
Unquote

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Parker on October 5, 2008 at 8:42pm

Donna thank you for your reply.
I would like to know your definition of "real?"
In meditation I have, at times, ceased to exist as this seperate person and have become integrated with a wall of revolving energy. This to me felt like "truth." That this was the ultimate of what I am.
Then I am in this life again having these experiences, seeing these things happen and I am wondering, from "this" what is real? What is more real? Now you say that nothing is real! Ha! That gives me more to ponder:-)

Thanks - Wendy

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Parker on October 5, 2008 at 8:53pm

Michael,

who or what, is having the illusion?
Would that be "me" conscious energy?
Could that be why, as Donna say, there is no reality?
There is just this idea that I am having?

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Permalink Reply by Jeannie Martin on October 5, 2008 at 9:02pm

I believe that 'reality' is like a dandelion that has changed from yellow to that puffy little grey/white ball (we would blow on them when we were kids) It has a centre point from which a whole bunch of tiny little pieces spread in all directions. The centre point represents my consciousness in the NOW.
In this metaphor, each one of those little pieces represents a potential outcome (future). It represents a line of energy that I can manifest or follow at any given time. When people remote view or have visions of the future, they are seeing or sensing a potential future. They are travelling down one of those lines. The potential future that has the most energy/focus/belief around it has the greatest probable chance of manifesting.
Quantum physics tells us that there is no time, There is only right now, and right now and right now, etc.
We are like conscious projectors. What ever we focus on becomes our 'in the moment' reality, and at a molecular level we change what we are looking at. That 'in the moment reality' shifts and changes like lightening as our minds think us through our current life. I personally believe in multi-dimensional realities that are all happening at the same time (another discussion for later).
I can take my mind to 30 years ago and agonize over a so-called past situation. It sits right here in my incredible library sub-conscious mind. I can visit it any time I want, and my body will react as if I am there.
Reality is everywhere. This place called planet earth/life is one experience of many.
This whole thing is an incredible, magic experience and hypnotherapy is the absolute best thing I have ever learned.
I also believe you were the Eagle. In the big picture - all life is one. There is only one of us here. It is all vibrating energy in patterns. We can enter each other's field of energy and 'know' it.
Thank you for a very thought-provoking question!
....Jeannie

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Permalink Reply by Diane L. Sepulveda on October 5, 2008 at 9:15pm

WOW are you in sync with my thoughts. When I take classes they reveal to me my thoughts are thought by others. Hypnotherapy is life for me. Just in a different pattern. People tell me that I have something. I have no idea what it is but I do perceive others at times. Sounds as though you are on the same track. I can not help you on what I have witnessed in hypnotherapy due to the fact I am a beginner. Just that I have been a nurse for 43 years and have expirenced life. Here in NM and in NY. I do not know who "I" am, only what my children and friends relate to me. I raise Chihuahuas and know they give love to others. I believe they are an extension of me. I give then all the most kisses possible, they share this love with those that adopt them (for a small adoption fee). Everyday "I ask who am I". I am so happy to see I am not the only one.

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Parker on October 5, 2008 at 9:36pm

Steve,

"Wendy's" are all wonderful people, I hope you are enjoying your crush :-)
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.
Perhaps you are right, that the eagle is telling me something about myself. My eagle could see the past, present and future aswell.
I have heard of others who have experienced "being" an animal, and I must say that before I actually experienced it myself, I had no idea it was actually possible.
You are right, the mind is an amazing thing.

Thank you - Wendy

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Parker on October 5, 2008 at 9:47pm

Jeannie,

I love your analogy of the dandelion. I would love to hear your views on multidemsional realities also.
I currently understand things in a lot of the ways that you have described. I am going to re-read the posts tomorrow as I really need to go to bed.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this.

Thanks - Wendy