There is a trap in our minds that keeps us from living our greatest purpose. I found it many years ago and wish more people knew about it. You see it every day in lots of people.
Do you know people who live in the land of LA-LA?
You know, the place that exists only in their minds and stretches the boundaries of reality in strange and ridiculous ways. Sometimes it makes you just shake your head?
NO, NO, NO I am not just talking about politicians, the media and Wall Street. I mean real people that you know who are trying their hardest to live well and succeed in life but just don’t see the forest for the trees?
You know, the ones that you wonder why they are always overreacting to their lives, or playing small, or are wandering through life with no focus, or are totally focused but totally in the wrong direction?
I first started working with clients in my healing and energy coaching practice 14 years ago. I would ask people about their lives and was floored how may had stories about their lives and their current relationships and situations that were not based in any reality that I could see. It was all a virtual world created by their fears and frustrations.
I saw this so much that I renamed this pattern of living in a LA-LA land, “THE VIRTUAL REALITY TRAP.”
I stole the words “virtual reality” from the computer simulation games that use goggles and ear plugs to let the computer create a completely false game world in your head and feels like you are really in the game not just watching it.
Then it dawned on me that the cerebral cortex in all of us thinks in images and does the exact same thing. Our reality is created by the images in our minds, it is in those images that we feel we are really in the world.
And the mind is seamless in its delivery of the pictures in our head and links them to our emotions and creates our life experiences from them. Cool right!
Not so cool when most of the images that you are reacting to are based on your past fears and traumas, not on the infinite possibility of the present moment. i.e. Your boss walks into your office unannounced and you know you are going to get fired or reprimanded and stress the entire time he is there. He came in to tell you of a change in the schedule, but your Virtual Reality took 2 years off your life instead.
Catching the mind playing tricks on you is one of the most powerful ways to own your power in your life and not live in fear, frustration or battle any more.
I was so excited to discover this, I wrote about it in my upcoming book, “Discover Your Purpose: How to Use the 5 Life Purpose Profiles to Unlock Your Hidden Potential and Live the Life You Were Meant to Live” coming out this August!
But in trying to trim the book to fit on the coffee table without breaking it, the chapter called “The Virtual Reality Trap” got cut… 🙁
But you are in luck! I have created a series of short videos Called “The Virtual Reality Trap” that show you its power over you, how to recognize it in your life, how to let it go and what it looks like to live in the real world every day fully in your purpose and free of this Virtual Reality Trap!!!