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In Reality Transurfing Steps I–V, best-selling author Vadim Zeland redefines reality, arguing that we live in a world of consciousness in which infinite versions of reality simultaneously exist—and what you identify as reality is just one version of it. The way you think and feel about your experiences determines which one of the infinite versions of reality exists for you. Therefore, **consciously choosing the...

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Reality Transurfing Steps I-V Summary Your Version of Reality Reflects Your Emotional Energy

Zeland argues that what you think of as your reality is just one version of reality among many. According to him, we live in a world of consciousness in which infinite alternative realities simultaneously exist. These realities fall into two categories:

  1. Physical, materialized realities that you can perceive with your five senses
  2. Invisible, unmaterialized realities that lie dormant, waiting to take physical form

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Reality Transurfing Steps I-V Summary Principle #1: Invisible Realities Require Emotional Energy to Materialize

What separates the physical, materialized reality that you can sense from the invisible, unmaterialized realities you can’t sense? According to Zeland, it’s emotional energy. He explains that every conscious being transmits emotional energy through their thoughts and feelings—and this energy contributes to the physical materialization of reality. This is a process with three distinct parts:

Part #1: You Transmit Emotional Energy

Zeland claims that each time you think or feel, you transmit emotional energy into the world of consciousness in which infinite versions of reality exist. The emotional energy you transmit has a specific frequency that reflects the emotional content of your thoughts and feelings. For example, if you think about something that makes you feel anxious, you transmit anxious emotional energy into the world of consciousness.

Part #2: Your Emotional Energy Feeds the Reality Matching Your Energy’s Frequency

In the world of consciousness, each version of reality has a unique frequency. According to Zeland, *a version of reality can materialize into physical form for you when your emotional energy matches—*and feeds into—its unique...

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Reality Transurfing Steps I-V Summary Principle #2: Reacting to *Your* Reality Reinforces *Your* Version of Reality

Since your version of reality simply reflects your emotional energy, why aren’t you jumping between different realities every time your thoughts and feelings, and therefore your frequency, change? Zeland explains that you tend to remain in a single version of reality for two reasons:

  1. You habitually transmit the same frequency.
  2. Realities require consistent emotional energy to materialize.

Let’s explore each of these two reasons in more detail.

Reason #1: You Habitually Transmit the Same Frequency

Zeland explains that although the content of your thoughts and feelings often fluctuates, you’re still predominantly thinking about and reacting emotionally to what happens in your version of reality—thereby producing energy at the same frequency as your reality. This means that you’re continually feeding your version of reality, which is why it continues to materialize. For example, you don’t have enough money and feel bad every time you see something you can’t afford. As a result, you transmit emotional...

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Reality Transurfing Steps I-V Summary Principle #3: You Can Inadvertently Sustain a Reality You Don’t Want

Now that you understand how your emotional energy feeds a specific version of reality, let’s explore another side to this energy exchange that Zeland warns about: When you’re not conscious of the frequency you’re transmitting, you can inadvertently sustain a reality that you don’t want.

This can become a problem because, as Zeland explains, the more emotional energy a version of reality accumulates, the stronger and more self-sustaining it becomes. It sustains its physical form by creating circumstances that cause you to emit its specific frequency—that way, it can siphon your energy. And in turn, the more you react to this version of reality’s circumstances, the more emotional energy you feed it—thus maintaining and further strengthening this reality’s physical form.

  • For example, a “poor” version of reality creates circumstances such as job loss, emergency medical expenses, and rising insurance rates to keep you focused on your lack of wealth.

Controlling Where You Focus Your Attention Preserves Your Energy

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Reality Transurfing Steps I-V Summary Step #1: Reclaim Your Emotional Energy

The first step toward changing your version of reality is to reclaim your emotional energy. This involves withdrawing your attention from unwanted aspects of your current reality so that you have more energy to direct toward your ideal version of reality.

According to Zeland, the only reason you might want to change your version of reality is that you’re facing circumstances that you don’t want to experience. You believe that a different version of reality won’t include these unwanted things. However, he explains, all unwanted circumstances result from a reality’s attempts to siphon your emotional energy—by creating problems and concerns that justify strong emotional reactions to them. As previously discussed, each time you direct your attention to such circumstances, you waste your emotional energy sustaining these unwanted parts of reality.

For example, you don’t want to feel frustrated with your children. However, your version of reality keeps creating unwanted circumstances that justify your perpetual frustration with them (for instance, your children repeatedly lie to you or don’t do their homework) so that it can siphon your emotional energy and remain in...

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Reality Transurfing Steps I-V Summary Step #2: Redirect Your Emotional Energy

Once you’ve practiced reclaiming your emotional energy from unwanted circumstances, practice the second step toward changing your version of reality: Redirect your emotional energy to feed your ideal version of reality.

Zeland argues that since your version of reality simply reflects your emotional energy, you can control which version of reality gets reflected back to you by matching your emotional energy with that reality. He suggests three methods for redirecting your emotional energy to achieve this:

  1. Identify what you want.
  2. Practice living in your ideal version of reality.
  3. Transmit only positive emotional energy.

Let’s explore each of these three methods in detail.

Method #1: Identify What You Want

The first method for redirecting your emotional energy involves identifying what you want to experience. This will help you create a clear vision of your ideal version of reality.

Zeland offers advice for identifying what you want to experience: Focus only on what brings you joy or inspires you. Don’t allow other people’s opinions to influence you or make you worry about how plausible your desires are.

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Shortform Exercise: Direct Emotional Energy to Your Ideal Version of Reality

Zeland argues that you can control which version of reality gets reflected back to you by matching your emotional energy with what you want to experience. This exercise will walk you through his three methods for achieving this.


Write down at least one joyful or inspiring thing that you’d like to experience in your ideal version of reality. (For example, you want to be a best-selling author.)

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