How much power do you think you really have over your surroundings?

Question

Can you really bend reality?
Does your belief in something make it true?
I think this is possible, to some extent.

Answer 1

My steps are of my choosing- how fast or slow..on which paths that are laid out in front of me.. my thoughts are filtered through my positive change in my mind, my actions are put through a series of strengthening lessons learned and my words and deeds are empathetic and genuine.. for this I have witnessed a change in my reality ..my cosmic force has bent the law of fate..

Answer 2

Ahhh, one of my favorite misconceptions. Does your belief in something make it true. No, absolutely not! A fact is a fact. A = A!! No matter what you wish, hope for, desire or believe, you cannot change the fact that the sun will rise in the east, that the moon will affect the tides, or that 1 + 1 = 2, in simple math.

Now this does not answer your first question. You have as much power as you desire to express over your surroundings. You may live in a slum apartment building, but your space within that building need not be a slum. You can wash your windows. You can repair and repaint your walls. You can plug up the holes in the floor, under the sink so the roaches cannot get in. You must realize and accept that you are responsible for everything that you do, and everything that happens to you. No matter how much you desire or wish to deny this, you cannot. However, being redundant, you are responsible.

Answer 3

You choose to believe what you believe. So I think you
have a lot of power over your surroundings. Only you see
your particular surroundings as you do. Your belief insomething
makes it true to you. How do you know if you are bending your
reality unless you can see it totally through someone elses
reality- and you can't. Maybe we are all walking around in
bent reality. Swayed towards our beliefs & views, at least.

As a man thinketh he becometh. Like attracts like.

There's a great deal that we don't know about regarding the
powers and mysteries of the brain/mind. I think that it doesn't
hurt to reach for the impossible to make it possible. Who's
to say that something is impossible? Walking on the moon
was once thought that. What the heck was the Internet to
my grandfather when he was a kid- an impossiblity. I can't
wait until they unlock time travel. That will be mind blowing.
It's all just a formula of quantum physics that needs to be
invented.

Me, I'm the Master of my surroundings. - If not me, then who?

Answer 4

To the best of my knowledge, reality does not bend unless maybe you get drugged up.

Your belief in something doesn't make it true. Things are either real of they aren't. You may have a lot of control over your "surroundings" (your house, your office, etc.), but you don't have much control over what's real.

The only thing is this: If you believe you can do something, and if you're willing to do what it takes in order to accomplish that, then - in that way - believing something can make it true.

All the believing the sky is green polka dots in the world isn't going to make something like that so. There is such a thing as reality.
Your job is to be able to work within it, deal with it, face it and sometimes overcome it.

Answer 5

My surroundings are not what make up Reality. My surroundings exist within reality, and therefore since they exist in MY reality I have complete power over them. I can change the color of my walls, remove or add funishings, move objects from one side of the room to the other.

No, mere belief in something does not make it true, Descartes wasn't completely right.

Answer 6

In a way we can bend reality, it's all about the mind. It depends on really how you interpret things. I think it's possible as well.

Answer 7

I don't know about "Bent Reality", but I can move furniture, landscape outside, and change my physical appearance and environment--that alone changes my physical reality. If I believe in something that is totally acceptable for me, that "something" becomes the truth as I see it, but others may not see things the way I do, (normality). I simply don't understand "bent reality" unless you are referring to my response to propaganda.

Answer 8

I believe I have little control over my surroundings so I agree, to some extent. But knowing you are powerless over something gives you power.

Answer 9

"You as an individual, your body and your mind, has its profound effect on the universe"

Answer 10

some times i don't even control myself i do what i do i say what i say but you don't have to be like me i still care about you.