Do Our Thoughts Really Create Reality?

The first tip is to pay attention to the thought before you fall asleep, because the way you go to sleep is the way you get up. Gili recommends not feeding your brain the news, thrillers or anything disturbing before bed, and reading the Shema at bedtime instead, which works like a meditation that releases the events of the day and brings your frequency down for sleep.

Because in a meditation we absorb the energy of the person delivering it. Gili recommends checking who the person behind the meditation is. There's no point taking an abundance meditation from someone whose bank account is overdrawn, or a calming meditation from someone stressed and quick to anger, because what you get is their energy.

In the story, a friend of Gili's teaches her nine-year-old daughter to look at her anger the way she looks at the fan on the ceiling: she sees it, but she isn't the fan, and in the same way she isn't the anger. The girl asks how long that anger takes to pass through her.

Gili explains that there's a paradox here: the freedom a person is looking for actually comes out of commitment and devotion to something, not out of having no obligations. The commitment to recording the podcast itself is an example. There's a framework you hold yourself to, and that's exactly where a sense of freedom and relief comes up.

When a person identifies with a thought, they give it weight and they become that thought. Someone walking around with a victim consciousness, for example, will draw in situations or people that confirm it, because identifying with the thought is what turns it into the reality they actually live in.

Most human thoughts are about things that already happened and can't be changed now, or about worry over the future, which is an attempt to produce a reality that hasn't happened yet. Fear too always refers to something that might still happen, not to what's happening in the given moment itself.