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# You're not making it up
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/youre-not-making-it-up/
- Published: 2026-10-23T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:00:00.000Z
- Description: Why this understanding of how the mind works is not in fact just gaslighting 🫣
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Neuroscience, MECHANICS, Presence, Principles, Psychology, #re-use, Thought realisation, Video

Sometimes when a mind is introduced to the inside-out understanding, it gets a little indignant.

(Minds don't like the idea that they're being tricked, see?)

So sometimes, very understandably, it attempts to throw the whole understanding out, by insisting that it's complete and utter nonsense.

(Fair cop – some of the stuff I say sometimes *can* sound a bit off the wall… which is the whole reason the **Daily Reminders** exist: you've got to find your *own* way through it, using a [metaphor](https://www.gilespcroft.com/tag/metaphor/) or an angle that makes sense to *you*.) 

For instance, minds sometimes take great offence at this statement:

🔑

****Key Message**:  
➤ ****100%** of our feelings come from (the Principle of) Thought  
➤ ****0%** of our feelings come from our circumstances

It gets all indignant, pouts a bit and complains,

> 📦🗣️ *“Are you gaslighting me – saying I'm making it all up?!”*

Which is a bit like the question I got asked in a Q&A session I ran, a while ago. This short video clip from the session lets you know where I land on this one… as well as delivering an important public safety announcement:

😁

0:00 

/1:50 

1× 

This is a completely normal, understandable concern that’s based on our unique interpretations of the word ‘thought’, so let me reassure you that I’m not suggesting you’re ‘making it up’. *Of course* the things that you experience (like being run over by a car 😫) are real…

***AND***

…100% of that experience is made of Thought.

Not *what* you’re thinking *about*, but the perceptual process itself.

(Ask any neuroscientist and they’ll confirm that we’re not experiencing the world directly. What we’re experiencing is our senses. It’s a real-time, moment-to-moment [*facsimile* of reality](https://www.gilespcroft.com/your-reality-is-a-perception-of-the-mind/): a best guess at what must be ‘out there’ in order for us to be receiving the data we’re receiving.)

That’s what I mean when I say ‘Thought’.

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The most liberating aspect of this?

Because experience is made of Thought, there are *endless* ways a situation can appear (as well you know, from your own experience).

And the way a situation appears is *always* a reflection of our state of mind in that moment, and nothing else.

We are only ever experiencing our own perceptual thought-system, reflected outwards.

It’s inside-out, not outside-in.

And we don’t need to *do* anything about that.

We just need to realise it.

✨

Giles

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