Our lives flow directly out of how we view the world. So, it behooves us to pay attention to what we choose to focus on. When we ruminate over problems and see every challenge as a roadblock instead of an opportunity, then our brain filters out positive experiences and selectively attends to negative or difficult stimuli. Where we direct our gaze communicates to our brain which type of information is salient and which type can be ignored. In a very real sense, we create our reality by resting our gaze in a particular direction.