One of the things I've noticed from doing 30-day challenges is how many new things I come in contact with and learn about when I do them. Things which were previously never in my reality enter my reality, and my reality is expanded. Reality expansion is the process of encountering new things you never even knew about. Your reality is the sum total of all the things you're aware of. If you aren't aware of something, it doesn't matter how important it is, it's not in your reality (although its consequences might very well impose themselves upon your reality).
When I did a thirty-day workout-every-day challenge, not only did it make me stronger and sexier, it made me aware of more ways to work out, ways to motivate myself at the gym, effects of overtraining, new exercise machines, new dietary tidbits, new ways to manage my limited time, and so on. Many things which had previously never entered my reality, came into my reality and established a strong presence.
When I studied French for 30 days, I learned about so many new language-learning resources. None of these resources were ever "in my reality" before I underwent that challenge. When I did the French study challenge, they entered my reality, and my reality grew.
One thing that rapidly grew my reality, so much so that I literally suffered growing pains, was joining the seduction community when I was 23. At the time, I knew absolutely nothing about dating or how to get a girlfriend or even how to get a kiss. I had been sheltered by my parents, who wanted me to be a virgin until my wedding day or my death, whichever came sooner (and it was looking like my death would come first). In a sentence, I was hopeless. Then I found the Community. For months I devoured seduction community literature, and my reality expanded by lightyears. I'm not a pickup artist any more, but if I hadn't wandered that road, my reality would be a tiny flicker of what it is now.
You can think of reality expansion like this. There's this vast world around you-- the "true" reality, if there is such a thing-- but it's mostly covered in impenetrable darkness. Your body shines a light which illuminates the things close to you, so that to you, reality is a sphere of illuminated objects surrounded by darkness. Maybe on the edge of the light, there are some murky shapes you can barely make out-- those correspond to things you have some dim awareness of but haven't really gotten around to sinking your teeth into yet. As you expand your reality, your light shines brighter and more things are illuminated. You can never illuminate all of reality, since there's too much sheer information for a human brain to contain it all. But as you learn and grow, more and more reality is lit up.
As your reality expands, you have more references to draw comparisons and analogies with whenever you encounter new situations in your life. When you encounter a new problem or scenario, your subconscious mind tries to come up with solutions by looking at all your past experience and knowledge-- your past reality. The more reality your subconscious mind has to draw upon, the richer and more structured the solutions it can come up with. An expanded reality makes you more intelligent.
In order to expand your reality, seek out new knowledge and new experiences. Open yourself up to everything new and unknown. When you find yourself dwelling in the known, push yourself to find the unknown. If you're listening to the same old music, mix it up a bit, try some related artists in the same genre, or if you're daring, some artists in a whole new genre. If you're hanging out with the same people all the time, try to meet some new people, even if that means talking to a stranger. If you're watching the same TV shows, force yourself to change the channel.
Know that when you first get into some project or discipline, there's be a period of very steep growth. Eventually, the growth will start leveling out as you become more competent. If you want to maintain rapid reality growth at all times, you should always have at least one or two projects going where you're experiencing the rapid growth of a newbie. For example, when you first start studying a language, you're learning vast new amounts of knowledge faster than you can keep up with it. But when you're at an intermediate skill level with the language, the learning dwindles into a kind of constant steady vocabulary growth. At that point, there's nothing radically new and nothing surprises you. Your biggest reality upgrades occur when things are surprising you, even shocking you.
FURTHER READING ABOUT REALITY
We can never illuminate all of reality, because there's just too much of it for our limited human minds to comprehend. We can, however, get some idea about the bigger picture of reality using Models of Reality. This is like choosing a street map over a satellite picture. The satellite picture is technically more accurate, but the street map is far more useful.
There are two types of reality, objective reality and subjective reality. Objective reality is really just an illusion, based on the idea that there's something out there independent of all awareness and thought. The idea that a tree falling in a forest with noone to hear it, makes a sound. The idea that Schrodinger's cat is definitely alive or definitely dead. Subjective reality is the reality that an actual conscious entity experiences, and it's subjective because we filter to be how we want it to be. Read more in my article, Subjective Reality.
When you interact with the world, you can choose to reveal the reality about yourself, or you can reveal shadowy half-truths and egoic projections. I've chosen the former, the path of openness. Openness is the more difficult path, as it requires great courage, but it's also the path of greatest growth and fulfillment.
When I did a thirty-day workout-every-day challenge, not only did it make me stronger and sexier, it made me aware of more ways to work out, ways to motivate myself at the gym, effects of overtraining, new exercise machines, new dietary tidbits, new ways to manage my limited time, and so on. Many things which had previously never entered my reality, came into my reality and established a strong presence.
When I studied French for 30 days, I learned about so many new language-learning resources. None of these resources were ever "in my reality" before I underwent that challenge. When I did the French study challenge, they entered my reality, and my reality grew.
One thing that rapidly grew my reality, so much so that I literally suffered growing pains, was joining the seduction community when I was 23. At the time, I knew absolutely nothing about dating or how to get a girlfriend or even how to get a kiss. I had been sheltered by my parents, who wanted me to be a virgin until my wedding day or my death, whichever came sooner (and it was looking like my death would come first). In a sentence, I was hopeless. Then I found the Community. For months I devoured seduction community literature, and my reality expanded by lightyears. I'm not a pickup artist any more, but if I hadn't wandered that road, my reality would be a tiny flicker of what it is now.
You can think of reality expansion like this. There's this vast world around you-- the "true" reality, if there is such a thing-- but it's mostly covered in impenetrable darkness. Your body shines a light which illuminates the things close to you, so that to you, reality is a sphere of illuminated objects surrounded by darkness. Maybe on the edge of the light, there are some murky shapes you can barely make out-- those correspond to things you have some dim awareness of but haven't really gotten around to sinking your teeth into yet. As you expand your reality, your light shines brighter and more things are illuminated. You can never illuminate all of reality, since there's too much sheer information for a human brain to contain it all. But as you learn and grow, more and more reality is lit up.
As your reality expands, you have more references to draw comparisons and analogies with whenever you encounter new situations in your life. When you encounter a new problem or scenario, your subconscious mind tries to come up with solutions by looking at all your past experience and knowledge-- your past reality. The more reality your subconscious mind has to draw upon, the richer and more structured the solutions it can come up with. An expanded reality makes you more intelligent.
In order to expand your reality, seek out new knowledge and new experiences. Open yourself up to everything new and unknown. When you find yourself dwelling in the known, push yourself to find the unknown. If you're listening to the same old music, mix it up a bit, try some related artists in the same genre, or if you're daring, some artists in a whole new genre. If you're hanging out with the same people all the time, try to meet some new people, even if that means talking to a stranger. If you're watching the same TV shows, force yourself to change the channel.
Know that when you first get into some project or discipline, there's be a period of very steep growth. Eventually, the growth will start leveling out as you become more competent. If you want to maintain rapid reality growth at all times, you should always have at least one or two projects going where you're experiencing the rapid growth of a newbie. For example, when you first start studying a language, you're learning vast new amounts of knowledge faster than you can keep up with it. But when you're at an intermediate skill level with the language, the learning dwindles into a kind of constant steady vocabulary growth. At that point, there's nothing radically new and nothing surprises you. Your biggest reality upgrades occur when things are surprising you, even shocking you.
FURTHER READING ABOUT REALITY
We can never illuminate all of reality, because there's just too much of it for our limited human minds to comprehend. We can, however, get some idea about the bigger picture of reality using Models of Reality. This is like choosing a street map over a satellite picture. The satellite picture is technically more accurate, but the street map is far more useful.
There are two types of reality, objective reality and subjective reality. Objective reality is really just an illusion, based on the idea that there's something out there independent of all awareness and thought. The idea that a tree falling in a forest with noone to hear it, makes a sound. The idea that Schrodinger's cat is definitely alive or definitely dead. Subjective reality is the reality that an actual conscious entity experiences, and it's subjective because we filter to be how we want it to be. Read more in my article, Subjective Reality.
When you interact with the world, you can choose to reveal the reality about yourself, or you can reveal shadowy half-truths and egoic projections. I've chosen the former, the path of openness. Openness is the more difficult path, as it requires great courage, but it's also the path of greatest growth and fulfillment.
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