https://aeon.co/essays/how-our-brain-sculpts-experience-in-line-with-our-expectations

Once you peel back the layers of your thought habits and processes you realize you’re in control of your life in ways that once seemed unimaginable. The belief that we shape our own experience in life has proven that our perceptions do become our realities. How we process and perceive the world in our minds then becomes an external reality. Some of us have had that reality distorted through life experiences, and we must peel back these distortions layer by layer, experience by experience until we get to a point where we find peace, both inner and outer. The idea that you can control the world around you is a powerful one. Jazz composer Kamasi Washington said it best, “The world that my mind live in, lives in my mind”.