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Reality is the quality or state of being real or the totality of real things and events. However, what is real? Is real a fact or a perception?

When you look at a piece of steel, it appears solid and very strong. Just rap your knuckles on it and it will make them sting. Put a drop of water on a piece of steel and it will not leak through it, it will just sit there until it evaporates.

However, if you examine that piece of steel with an extremely powerful microscope, you will discover that it is not really as solid as it looks. There are numerous gaps and fissures in it. And, if the microscope is powerful enough to let you see the atoms that make up that piece of steel, you will see many empty spaces in it. The size, weight and speed of movement of these atoms depend on the elements that were used to make that particular piece of steel. The adhesion among these atoms are what gives steel its strength and illusion of solidness.

Similarly, if you look at a piece of glass it appears hard and solid. However, glass is really a liquid and it flows. The rate of flow is infinitesimal, but over an extended period of time, say 40 to 100 years, if you take a micrometer and measure the thickness of the glass at the top of a window and again at the bottom, you will find that the top is microscopically thinner than it is at the bottom.

As you know, glass is made from subjecting a special type of sand to extreme heat. As well as being used for making glass, sand is also used for other things. It is put onto ice-covered roads to give vehicles better traction. It is mixed with cement powder and water to make concrete and, a certain type of sand, when put down an oil well, will cause more oil to come out of the well.

The point of all this is to remind you that what you perceive is not necessarily fact. Solid objects are not really solid and some things have multiple uses that have no real relationship to one another.

So, what then is reality? It appears to be whatever you want it to be. If you think back to the rudimentary science classes you took in public school, you will remember that the teacher said everything, people, trees, grass, air, manufactured goods, food, etc. is made up of atoms. Atoms have positive, negative and neutral electrical charges associated with them. Depending on the makeup of a particular atom, it vibrates at a certain speed or frequency. However, if that atom is “excited” by an outside force, it will vibrate at a different speed or frequency. Depending on the speed or frequency of the vibration, the atom attracts or repels other atoms near it.

Now, since you are made up of atoms, you vibrate at a certain frequency. Depending on your thoughts which are electrical charges generated by the synapses in your brain, you either attract or repel things. This ability to attract or repel things has created a lot of news lately in the form of the “Secret” and the Law of Attraction.

Now, this phenomenon is not myth or hype, but scientific fact. Just like the Law of Gravity keeps the moon in orbit around the earth and causes a glass of water that you let go fall to the floor, the Law of Attraction affects you also.

You do not have much control over the Law of Gravity, but you do have some control over the Law of Attraction. By controlling your thoughts and emotions, you can get the Law of Attraction to work for you instead of against you.

The Law of Attraction working for you will not make you younger or make a non athlete into an athletic star, but it can change your reality. Your reality is based on your perceptions and beliefs.

You believe a piece of steel is solid, when in actual fact it is as porous as a piece of screen. You believe glass is solid when in fact it is a liquid. What you believe and think affects your perceptions and your reality.

Some people may look at a caterpillar and think it is nice and that someday it will become a beautiful butterfly. You may look at it and see a garden pest and stomp on it. Same insect, different perceptions. Some may think that a glass is half full while you may consider it half empty.

The truth about reality is that reality is whatever you create by your thoughts and emotions. If you do not like your reality, then consciously change your thoughts. As your thoughts change, your perception will also slowly change and a new reality, for you, will emerge. And, within your new reality, because your thoughts are different, a whole different set of things will be attracted to you.

Will it be instantaneous? Hardly! Nothing in nature is instantaneous. However, over time, you will see vast differences in your life.