7 Tips to Create Your Own Reality
Do you ever feel like life is just happening to you, as if you’re stuck in someone else’s reality? Many people feel this way, believing they lack control. But what if you could change that? What if you could create a reality that aligns with your desires through conscious manifestation?
Creating your own reality means focusing energy on who you want to be. We create our reality by being intentional in our choices.
Instead of dwelling on negatives, analyze why those thoughts exist to create a more positive consciousness. Often, they come from others trying to make you feel inadequate. But you decide what you internalize. You create your reality by choosing your beliefs.
You don’t have to accept someone else’s version of you. When we create our reality, we take back control and redefine success on our own terms.
There are risks—using this mindset to avoid hard truths can lead to escapism, which disrupts your vibration. But creating your own reality isn’t about denial; it’s about transformation. It’s about facing challenges with empowerment.
Think of the Wright Brothers—they imagined human flight and made it real. Your journey may not change the world, but it can change you. When you create your own reality, you emit energy that reshapes your inner world and how the world responds. Positive thoughts create positive change, and taking control of your thoughts changes your reality.
Creating your own reality is more than wishful thinking; it’s about intentional actions. Watch your thoughts—they shape your life. You may not have the ability to change everything at once, but you can make choices that uplift and empower you, letting each choice unfold into a new reality.
Why Creating Our Own Reality Feels Difficult (and How to Push Through)
Creating your own reality is a powerful idea, but it isn’t always easy. Many people face real challenges that make it difficult to take control and create the life they desire. Here are some of the most common obstacles and practical steps to overcome them.
1. Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs are thoughts that create mental barriers and prevent you from seeing your full potential. These beliefs are often formed by past experiences or external influences, leading to self-doubt and a restricted view of what’s possible. You may have probably heard the phrase, “you create your own reality”—this starts by analyzing and overcoming these limiting beliefs.
Practical Steps to Overcome Limiting Beliefs:
- Replace Negative Beliefs with Positive Affirmations: Watch your words. The way you talk to yourself matters. Write down a positive statement that counters your limiting belief. Repeat this affirmation daily until it feels true.
- Surround Yourself with Positivity: Spend time with people who uplift you. Being around positive influences helps reinforce a growth mindset and diminishes self-doubt.
- Practice Visualization: Visualization requires you to align your thoughts with your actions. Envision yourself overcoming challenges and achieving your goals. Imagine the success vividly, focusing on the feelings and details of that moment. This helps align your thoughts with the vibration of the reality you wish to create.
2. Overwhelming Negativity
Constant negative thoughts can create a heavy burden that stops you from moving forward. These thoughts can cloud your vision and make it feel impossible to take control of your situation. Thoughts shape your reality—watch your thoughts closely to see how they shape your experience.
Remember, the words you tell yourself have power.
Practical Steps to Overcome Overwhelming Negativity:
- Start a Gratitude Journal: Each day, write down three things you are grateful for. This practice helps shift focus from negative thoughts to positive aspects of your life.
- Create Boundaries for Negative Influences: Limit exposure to negative media or draining relationships. Setting clear boundaries helps protect your mental space and allows your inner world to flourish. Practice letting go of what does not serve you.
- Practice Mindfulness Meditation: Spend time each day in quiet meditation, focusing on your breath. This helps you become aware of negative thoughts without judgment, making it easier to let them go.
3. Fear of Failure
To manifest your dreams, it’s important to believe in what may be possible.
Fear of failure is a common barrier that prevents people from taking action. This fear can keep you stuck in your current situation, afraid to make changes in case they don’t work out.
It’s important to realize that fear can’t give you control, only taking responsibility for your mindset can.
Practical Steps to Overcome Fear of Failure:
- Set Small, Achievable Goals: Break down your larger goals into small, manageable steps. Take daily action on them. Each small success will build your confidence and help you see failure as part of the growth process.
- Reframe Failure as a Learning Opportunity: Be compassionate to yourself. Instead of seeing failure as a setback, view it as a lesson. Ask yourself what you can learn from the experience and how you can do better next time. Life’s challenges are filled with insights that help you grow.
- Visualize Success: Take time to imagine the best possible outcome instead of focusing on potential failure. Visualizing success will help diminish the power of fear and keep you motivated. Remember, like attracts like—the more you focus on positive outcomes, the more likely you are to manifest them in the world around you.
Creating your own reality takes time and effort, especially when facing these challenges. By taking practical steps to overcome limiting beliefs, negativity, and fear, you can push through these obstacles and start building a life that aligns with your true desires. When you create your own reality, you take control of your life, empowering yourself to make the best choices day after day.
How to Create Your Own Reality
Here are a few ways to create your own reality in order for the universe to accept the energy you send out and deliver back that reality.
- Carry Yourself with Pride
Make sure that your appearance is top-notch and you can smile and greet people as you move about your day. You are telling the universe that there is much for you to be proud of and the universe will accept that energy and deliver the respect of the people you encounter in your daily travels.
- Engage in Something You Want to Be Doing Every Day
If you want to be an accomplished guitarist, the one thing that a famous guitarist and you have in common is that you both play the guitar every single day. Once you have one thing in common with your idealized goal, more synch-ups will follow.
- Print Business Cards, Build a Website
If you have aspirations of professional success, the top people in your field have business cards, why shouldn’t you?
If your aspirations are to succeed as a professional photographer, you might gain access to VIP events seeking coverage if you give their organizers your card. Once you have the pictures from their event, media websites will be happy to take a look at your website and meet you in person, where handing them your business card immediately creates the reality that you are a professional photographer. Weren’t you just dreaming about this happening? If you were not, understand that this applies to whatever reality you wish to create.
- Use an Artistic Medium to Visualize and Narrate the Life You Want
Is it your dream to meet and marry your soulmate? What do they look like? Perhaps you should paint a picture of them before you meet them. Find pictures in old magazines and cut them into a representation of the house you will one day share with them. Write a short story to go with these pictures. As you create tangible evidence of your vision and desire, you create a reality that attracts these very things.
- Tell Your Story with Honest Affirmatives
Many people take the ordinary things that have happened to them, things that happen to millions of people, and act like they are victims. This of course, creates a reality of victimhood. You can create your own reality of success and empowerment by relating the facts of your life in a manner that drives your narrative toward a positive climax. You are then creating a scene-by-scene journey for the universe to write in an amazing “happily ever after.”
- Makeover
Can you envision what you would look like at your absolute best? If you can imagine it you can envision it, and if you can envision it, you can create it and that will lead to you becoming it.
Start your makeover by making sure you have the look you want and that it is a look that is easy for you to get into and stay in every day. Slowly begin your wardrobe turnover and you will eventually be forced to acknowledge that looking great is part of creating your own reality. Soon you will have created the reality of you at your best and be living your dream.
- The Right People
Putting energy out into the universe to become who you want to be can be as easy as putting yourself in an environment where you are around people who you want to be like.
If you want to be physically fit, spend your free time at the gym. If you want to succeed in a particular business field, attend networking events aimed at this group of people to acknowledge the right connections. Before you know it, you will be among your peers, having created the reality that you and those you admire are on equal levels of success.
Manifest the Reality You Want
Manifesting your dream reality is more than wishful thinking—it’s about taking intentional actions to align with your desires. We’ve explored ways to overcome limiting beliefs, handle negativity, and push past fear. By using these strategies, you can shape a reality that empowers you.
The power to change lies within you. To take the next step, consider speaking with one of Keen’s life path advisors. Book a session with a life path advisor today.