Why are you waiting for what is already here?

Couple days ago I was talking with a friend about the relationship of the Fish with the Ocean.

I saw a meme with two guys talking about if the Fish is capable of seeing air in the same way Human see water. Funny and then a lot philosophical.

(what a big not waste of time)

Check it out:

In the beginning we can even think that it is a very silly question, right?

But if you can dig a little bit more this “concept”, it’s actually a hell of question.

What if I told you that the distance between the reality you are trying to manifest isn’t a measure of time, but resistance?

It really fascinates me to think about other perceptions of reality (as in this video). Another points of view that “live around us”; the same existence and layer, although it can have a totally different outcome.

The same can happen not just with this air/water subject.

Sometimes we’re living a whole different matter of mind resolutions: mind images and “thinking algorithms” so different from people that can turn your own interface of perception in a parallel dimension compared with any other person next to you.

When we start to compare the Human reality with a Fish reality, at the first glance, we can say that is very different on from another.

…but in another point of view, we’re kind of living in the same way as fishes.

Imagine the “real Life goals” that us Humans always occupy our minds with, such as carers’ goals, making the right investments, raising a family… all of this to try to extract a glimpse of purpose in life, somehow, anyhow, in a way…

We, as Humans, are always projecting something more in the future.

We’re always trying to reach something beyond what we have, like “nothing we have now is sufficient”. And **I would even say that we live in “a-future-not-yet-illusion” of what could be.

Furthermore in comparison, for fishes it would be the same as saying that they’re swimming their whole life to find the ocean because they never experienced water.

“What!?!?”

Yes… crazy, right?

We live like that.

Their whole life would be a repeated lack perception of water to, someday, get to the water.

Is the same as thinking that the Fish is swimming towards the ocean. But they’re actually swimming inside the ocean, wondering when they’ll finally get wet.

Probably we all ( at least the 90s old generations here) remember those Cartoons that in some of the episodes, they were exploring the Desert for N motive and at some point they’re lost searching for water and facing the hidden Oasis in the middle of the dry sand.

The main characters wandering in the hit were always imagining those Resorts full of water, with a pool, coconuts and women dancing in tiny clothes and tanned skin.

However the horizon never comes… or even worst, the illusion of the Oasis was always in the horizon, always “almost here”.

The way, as a kid, you started to understand the famous concept of what’s a Mirage.

As I said before:

…in another point of view, we’re kind of living in the same way as those cartoons.

You are working, visualizing, and striving but the horizon keeps moving away.

It’s a common feeling of the archetype we’re gonna call The Striver.

(in the second part “Modulating Reality MR [2/2]” I’ll be defining it better)

He’s always increasing the degree of Resistance (remember?) and his whole existence spins around the very felling of [“I’ll be happy when…”]

Meanwhile we can think that living like that is a life full of Hope; there’s a hidden trap inside this pattern, which is:

Believing that your current reality is a mistake.

Why is this a trap and why is it hidden?

Being unsatisfied with your life right now, imagining that the “honey” is coming at some point, is the same as living your life cursing what you have right now.

And you do that when you fantasize the future as a perfect state of your being and do not pay attention about what you manifested today, from the past.

You strive to get from point A to point B without understanding that you’re already living the point B from another point A.

The environment, people, circumstances… in short: your reality; is already totally different.

The only thing that didn’t change is the way you look at it.

The (probable) reality of writing

Let’s keep exploring the part that you’re living exactly what you’re expecting..

For that, I really like this concept about the Mirages.

Very often (and when I can really observe patterns) I’m realizing what is an illusion in my life.

Which things are really truth in my experiences, like raw and indisputable happenings; and which one has the very subtle vail of my projections.

In my passage through Egypt, it was even stronger to think about that. My unconsciousness was helping me a lot with those same images of cartoons over and over again.

(It’s truly funny and I don’t know why for sure, but Woody Woodpecker was in my mind ALL THE TIME while I was been in Dahab)

Maybe because of the circumstances:

It was my first time experience a little piece of what’s the Desert.

Surrounded by all the archetypes and symbols of that tales we watched on television of people missing water and seeing Oasis in the middle of nowhere.

Trying to make sense of my life and my purpose living there on Christmas.

I came to a realization after days and days living with that in my head:

Every dream and goal we have in our lives, can fit in this concept of Oasis.

1. We can “see it” in our minds and probably is something that we’re the only ones capable of visualize it.
2. We have to have the courage to go after them and understand if they are an Illusion or true “water in the desert”.

However, how to differentiate the Mirage from the Oasis?

It’s a mix of acceptance, trust, being comfortable with error, and writing your own story.

When I talk about error is the understanding of this being the most necessary factor in the composition of what you’re creating; and it’s reality itself. (when I say “necessary”, I could easily put it as essential)

Cause what we understand as an “error” is actually the distance in between our projection and the reality.

If something is not as perfect as you thought, you call it a mistake or an error.

However you just can define it as an error when you’re coming back to what happened and giving it that meaning: the meaning of being an error.

But it’s not. It’s exactly what you were capable of manifest.

And when I talk about “writing your own story”, is because writing is the first and easiest act of how this game in Manifesting Reality really works.

Like that movie “The NeverEnding Story”:

Journaling and putting your ideas out there, at some moment, will bring you the sensation (I suppose) of being totally immersed in your own story.

More like the author of what’s possibly happening with you and what could you learn/explore/imagine from the things surrounding you.

(this is exactly why I started to be interested in coding: writing reality in code; but we’re gonna have a whole Letter dedicated to it)

Alternatively, just understanding that you’re the constantly author of your life, can bring the same benefits of indeed writing in a piece of paper, when doing with Attention.

Or even drawing. Singing. Putting out there something that is just in your mind.

Makes me wonder if in those cartoons, instead of just trying to reach the Mirage, the characters started to sing and write on the sand the vision would actually become an Oasis.

There’s also another factors that can help you with that, like:

When you start to live without forcing to appear what you’re not;

When you stop to be the mask other people are trying to put on you;

When you “write your own story” and live the perceptions of your life by whats meaningful for yourself;

When you start to understand that your life is not what you live “over time”…

(this one is very important from now on)

Your life is what you constantly project from inside out.

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” 
— Marcus Aurelius

The thing is:

You write. It happens;

Because is the same process of what your Brain is doing at every single moment ↓

New Lens for your Reality

How many times did you looked at your life as something happening from “one scene to another”?

How often do you think about that thing in the past? How much that same thing is governing your life today?

How much do you think that what happened to you in your own life is really “what happened to you in your own life”?

There’s something about the way we live this earthly reality that makes our brains and our experiences being organize and dictate like this:

Childhood event 1, 2 3… Teenager event 1, 2, 3… Adult life event 1, 2 3… and on, and on.

Because Childhood event 2 → Teenager event 1 happened.

Because Teenager even 1 → Adult life event 3 happened.

We do believe that what happened yesterday totally influences what we’re living today.

In some degree, this is right. But not in a causality way.

What do I mean here?

The events in your life are not directly correspondent to each other.

The meaning you give to them in your daily life is what makes the timeline.

Everything that you live today inside your mind (your reality) and everything that you tell yourself daily, is the only register that exists.

Let’s take this as an exercise for your next week, shall we?

Invite a friend to go with you to smowhere close to your house or in your city.

(if you’re someone that do things alone like me, you can do it with a notebook… uhum, uhum; very good)

Observe anything that is happening in a park, a shopping mall, or even in the streets.

Write (or draw) exactly what you’re seeing with the greatest amount of details as possible.

If you want to go even further, take notice of the feelings and emotions that come to you while you’re in that experiment.

On the next day, try to revive the same situation in your head, but snooping on what you wrote that day before. Write everything you’ve experienced, thinking about every detail and every sensation.

Do it for 1 week, or for even better results, do it for 2 weeks.

Can you guess what’s gonna happen?

I help you: Every single day is going to be different for the day before….

That’s how it works:

You’re gonna forget something; you’re gonna add something; you’re gonna feel about it differently; you’re gonna have new insights about the day and the situation.

When you get back to the 1st notes, the experience that you had, is going to be TOTALLY different in your mind compared to the real life, to the point that who reads them separately would even think they are 2 different stories.

Depending on your Intention about remembering something and what you want to achieve by describing it, also depending on your Attention in the act of remembering itself, the situations will be modular.

They will naturally try to “make sense” about what and how you wanna give it meaning.

Again: the event is there; but it changes accordingly to how you want to signify them.

You’re not signifying it once in the day it happened and that’s it.

But by the moment you remember it, you give the event a totally new meaning.

How is that happen? I’ll make even more sense about it in a ~ scientific ~ way: 

1. Brain Cell Shrinkage

Dr. Maiken Nedergaard and her team in the  **University of Rochester Center for Translational Neuromedicine** published a study in Science, titled **”Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain”** in wich they discuss what’s the glymphatic system.

Basically they prove that brain cells contract by 60% during sleep to clean the excess of toxins.

What’s that mean?

• During the day, your brain cells remain “swollen” because of the heavy use and the accumulation of metabolic waste. Your machine is working in a high level performance.
• When you get to deep sleep at night (the sleep stage they call N3), you brain literally diminishes it size by 60%;this is more than half of your brain! Imagine every work your brain was doing by the day, you cut the capacity of connecting dots and gathering information to only 40% of the original.
• Your brain open up physical space, so information can flow more rapidly, synthesizing whats important and eliminating waste.

Your brain judge automatically based on what you gave attention to in your day and what was your intention about that.

Because you have your day by day patterns of how to recognize the reality around you, the resistance of acceptance for this reality are very low. So this reality can manifest easily.

2. The Brain cleaning as a Website Cache

I really like to use the connections in between websites and the human body/consciousness, due to the fact that this is my field of expertise.

I also believe that the human being (existence, body, energetic field) is a tool to manifest what we call spiritual, and we do that in all kind of technology we produce. (but very likely I’ll also write a dedicated Letter about that).

Anyway, I started to connect some researches to validate my “imagination” about this all;

In this case, relying on the brain behavior and the “this-is-another-person-living-in-this-body” kind of experience everyone visits at least once in life.

• Cache Generation (the amount of things experienced at once) ****happens during the day, which your hippocampus acts like RAM (computer memory responsible to “run” things) and records everything quickly an in real time. No space HD/SSD needed, but very very fast.
• By night the cache gets full and we experience the process of Cleaning and Uploading what was crashing the system. The Brain “uploads” important data from the fast RAM to the long-term hard drive (cerebral cortex). That means that a very considered amount of information is discarded after being “ruminated” during the day and being in your RAM.
• After that, the brain Clears the Cache through synaptic pruning (the brain’s natural process of eliminating weak or unused neural connections while strengthening frequently used ones). **Weak and irrelevant connections from the day are wiped clean so the hippocampus wakes up refreshed (!) with free space (!) the next morning (cofcofnewbraincofcof).

Dr. Giulio Tononi and Dr. Chiara Cirelli at the **University of Wisconsin-Madison** have a study from 2003 (after that year, the study was reinforced by the previous one in Topic 1 from Dr. Nedergaard in 2011) which they propose what is globally known as the SHY (Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis which suggests that sleep is the biological price the brain pays for plasticity).

The study actually proved that this cache analogy stuck in my head is true: synapses get stronger and “clogged” during waking hours and “downscale” the same ones by 20% during the sleep to free up memory danwitch for the next day.

3. Saved Memory is Different from the Lived Moment

All of that to get to here, in this exaclty statement:

“The memory you store is not a recorded video of what happened”

It changes totally the face, format and properties because of its transfer (or “upload”) process; and this is exactly what we’ve talking about creating your reality. Cause this data is also malleable, by every time you access it.

As a result, if the Data is malleable and can change by every time you access it… It’s not the same data as the original. It changes all the properties by who’s accessing it, when and how.

Your memories are fabricated differently every time you access them to satisfy the version of yourself who is accessing them.

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• When you live the event the experience is rich, full of raw sensory details (sounds, exact colors, heart rate), and highly immediate emotional weight. This is all fragmented across various parts of the brain (the same behavior of a browser and a website).
• When you sleep (the editing or synthesizing part), the brain does not save the raw file of that experience, because is too large to keep it; It compresses the information. The brain extracts only the essence, meaning, and takeaway of the event, discarding useless details (like the color of a car driving by or the exact phrasing someone used). Your personal timeline and your attention will dictate what’s worth it to be kept. Think of your attention as the “points giver” entity of your day. More Attention = More Points. More Points = What’s going to occupy more space in your SSD.
• That’s when we get to The Reconstruction. When you remember something from the past, you are not pressing “play” on a video. You are downloading a compressed file, and your brain reconstructs the gap depending on the variables of the NOW moment. This is why our memories of the past feel more linear, narrative, and less chaotic than the exact moment we lived them.

Facing yourSelf

Almost everything you keep in your memory about yourself (what you believe is there) is an illusion of your Brain trying to make sense.

Trying to make sense of the image you have of your life. Trying to make sense of what you’re living in this phase of you life. Trying to make sense on how you see yourself in that specific person in that moment.

The real challenge of Manifesting Reality is to face how you organize and give meaning to your own “downloaded” blocks.

In general, there’s nothing happening outside of you, in this sense.

The delay you experience in manifesting anything in the physical realm, can be viewing in a mathematical (”mathemagician”) equation (which we’re gonna to discuss in the next letter Modulating Reality [MR 2/2])

“As within, so without.” 
— Hermetic Principal

Making even more sense towards the “metaphor” of you being the author of your own book Which one you’re creating your life in the exact same moment you’re wiring on it.

If you’re writing in your life about something that will happen someday, in some specific circumstance, is the same as writing: ”I have to wait.”

When you do that, you use your own memory’s access to make the right dossier about why the wait is true.

However when you collapse time, you realize that everything is happening from the point of view of how you’re accessing it right now.

The future, the past and the present are, indeed, what your Attention and your Intention are determining them to be.

Hence how much Resistance you’re putting on it by trying to control and being attach to what you believe is true in the current version of yourself.

It’s right in this moment, when you accept that reality is malleable and dependent on this factors above, that you gain the ultimate power:

Authorship.

You’re no longer a victim of a past or a future that fells linear.

You’re the architect that signifies what the past means, RIGHT HERE IN THE PRESENT. At the same time that you’re the one defining how the future is gonna be.

You’re no longer the fish swimming “towards” the Ocean, exhausted, searching for water.

You can open your gills and realize that you’re already a swimmer of the Ocean.