How do you decide what is real and what isn't?  Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper or see on TV?  Of course you don't!  If you were to suspend your reality just for one day, what would be different?  The framework of your reality will be determined by the rule book that you have been compiling since about the age of 3.  Did you realise that you learn the most you are ever going to learn between the ages of 3 and 7 and thereafter everything slows down.  I wonder what kind of influences you were subjected to during those years?  Just think for a moment how different your rule book might have been if you had a different set of parents or a different cultural background. 

It is a hard stretch to change everything so completely.  What you can do however, is ask yourself, what other possibilities there are to the way that you see things.  How many other possibilities are there?  What other outcomes could there be?  You will have friends who think differently to you and have different vantage points.  Try some of those vantage points on.  Stand in somebody else's shoes.

The media is doing its' best right now to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.  If you buy into their fear, whose reality are you choosing?  The collective consciousness of a 'worried world' manifests in some interesting ways.  General practitioners will no doubt notice a rise in people with colds and flu viruses.  When the mind becomes troubled, the body often responds by yielding to illness.  In a therapeutic capacity I notice that compulsions and addictions are more evident.  Often when we anticipate hardship, we compensate in some way.  It is useful to know that isn't it!  Apart from the obvious strategy of limiting yourself to the toxic effects of doom and gloom, remember that what you see is not real, it is an illusion borne out of a set of ideas.  Other people's!  What ideas do you have that give you a great feeling?  What ideas motivate you?  What ideas excite you?  Whose reality do you want to choose?