Reality Tunnel

One Life Tutorial for May 1
REALITY TUNNEL
 
Are you flourishing, prospering, and thriving? Or are you languishing, enduring, and dispirited?
No matter what you might be feeling, sensing, or experiencing, a deeper inquiry can lead you to discover what lies beneath your perception of your state of being, or reality. From our perspective, your perception of reality arises from your dependency on beliefs and attitudes you developed a long time ago, and which may not necessarily be relevant now. Your system of beliefs and attitudes is complex and creates a reality tunnel, whose boundaries are defined unconsciously. Your reality tunnel is comfortable for you to live in, and even if it seems coherent or incoherent, rational or irrational, it is always familiar territory.

We suggest that everyone lives in their self-created reality tunnel, but not everyone is aware that they do. Usually there is a sense of “in here” which acknowledges the comfort of living inside of your reality tunnel, and “out there” where it becomes a bit more risky. The challenges seem to be bigger outside of your reality tunnel, and simpler in the comfort of the system you have set up which determines when to feel “good” and when to feel “bad.” You feel happy if you complete a task, find the item you lost, or spend time with a friend. You feel unhappy when you get a flat tire, your internet goes out, or your friend doesn’t call you. All these “things” and many, many others, carry varied levels of importance to you and your perception of your state of being requires that certain conditions like these be met. All of this is reinforced over time until your feelings become sort of locked into place, routine and automatic. In other words, until you get stuck in your reality tunnel.

In order to feel truly alive, you have to unlock your feelings and inform your perception of your state of being with more nuanced information of your experience. You have to allow yourself to become more sensitive. You become more sensitive by stepping outside of your reality tunnel where you shift the primary way you feel and experience life from being determined by the situations and circumstances of life to being based on your deep knowing of One Life—All That Is. Without the boundaries of your familiar reality tunnel, there is nothing but One Life.

Now this notion might cause you to think that we are suggesting you must become more vulnerable. While that may be a result of becoming more sensitive, it is not required. Becoming more sensitive to who you are without the attachment to a carefully constructed notion of reality that is personal and inflexible can allow you to feel much more engaged with life, more available to varied experiences, and able to accept the impermanence of it all.
Letting yourself respond to life without relying on old patterns of thought and belief allows you to escape your reality tunnel, or at least to open up to having a flexible reality tunnel which can allow other reality tunnels to intersect with yours. This sense of an intersection permits empathy and understanding. If your reality tunnel is fixed and uncompromising, and you do not share it consciously, you will remain in a fixed and uncompromising reality continuing whatever program is running.

​It is time to realize that your reality tunnel can be limiting and that you may not be aware of how limiting it is. What you have considered “reality” is actually a set of unconscious beliefs and ideas which you have interpreted and called your experience. You often don’t even know that you are dealing with your interpretations, thinking there is a fixed and absolute objective state of reality that you must adhere to, while a deeper dive will reveal that your notion of reality exists within a tunnel you created and is not an objective and total understanding of “All That Is.”
An opportunity has arisen for all reality tunnels to dissolve into One Life Awareness. This opportunity is always here, and yet it seems as if a threshold has been reached at this time. It has become so obvious that everyone lives in their own reality tunnel and that previously built intersections and places of overlap have separated further than ever. It is not the time to continue fortifying your tunnel, instead, it is the time to come out into the light of One Life Awareness and All That Is. End the languishing, enduring and dispirited experience in favor of flourishing, prospering and thriving. Be who you are and love and be loved, now.

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