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What's Your Reality ?
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This renewed emotional engagement creates a cycle that makes us experience the same type of events time and again. We then easily get the impression that we can't disentangle ourselves from these restrictive themes, that we are unable to experience something different.
While trapped in this state, we cannot even imagine not to be firmly linked to our material environment.
But - we do have the power and the right to choose which themes of life we want to be attracted to. Since it's only our. own - positive as well as negative - EMOTIONAL engagement that causes certain themes of life to confront us time and again, we are at liberty to dissolve (or intensify) this emotional bond at any time we want.
Dissolving the link between our consciousness and undesired events It is not difficult to fundamentally free ourselves from unpleasant events and influences. We only need to neutralize our - negative or positive - emotional attachment to such themes. This is the only effective mechanism.
Changing only the material circumstances never removes the very cause of a problem. As long as our emotions remain attached to a certain theme of life, we'll always feel drawn towards situations that make us experience this particular theme until we learned what we intended to learn by it.
Rejecting a problem has exactly the same attaching effect as desiring a certain situation.
Examples: If we want to escape our problems by moving to a far-away country, we always take the inner, emotional cause of