My Tedx Talk for the day:

Creation vs. Reaction

I realized today that these words are actually anagrams.

Why is that important? We as humans all posses the ability to CREAT (it did, in fact, used to be spelled that way before silent e's. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creat ). /1

In fact, all conscious beings have this ability to create. By every choice you make you are choosing your destiny and when you practice self-awareness you are able to take back the ability to make those decisions consciously as opposed to living a programmed/auto-pilot life. /2

This is how "manifesting" works. You first imagine what you want, then choose towards it until it's there. We have the innate feature of predicting the possibility of different outcomes and adjusting our choices based on what we think is most likely to happen next. /3

This is in huge part thanks to our ability to use past experiences, memories and language to extrapolate data that we then use to predict the possibilities of future outcomes with a certain sense of certainty. /4

(Some people are too sure of themselves/others have little self-confidence. Notice how people very sure of themselves will always create something. It's not always aligned with the collective good but they always create for themselves.) /5

On the other hand we have REACT, which is what happens when you have an event that is unprecedented and of which you had no warning. A distinct example on how reaction differs from creation comes in the form of art. You don't react a painting. /6

That doesn't even make sense when you try and parse the language. Art is always intentional by definition. We are able to create by reaction but when that happens we cannot successfully predict the outcome. We know how reacting worked for Pompeii. /7

Reactions are never as efficient or effective as creations. Reaction leads us to make hasty and poorly planned decisions that had little foresight/imagination put into their consequences. /8

This usually leads to a vicious cycle of unprecedented events followed by reaction, followed by more unimaginable events and more reactions. (sound familiar?) /9

The distinction between CREATION and REACTION is important because when we practice conscious awareness we take back the ability to create and not just react to what is happening to us. We happen to things instead. That is a shift that needs to happen in the way we talk. /10

We are not the victims of circumstance. We can create our future reality, not only as individuals but as a human collective. The internet only worked to exponentially heighten the ability for the collective to create. What you see online is a manifestation of the human state. /11

It's ability for passion, for love, for hate. You have few people creating and most simply reacting. Notice the language that social media uses for it's platforms is "reactions". Which, now that we're on that you better get to "reacting" to this... I created it after all. /12