Do thoughts really create our reality?

[anagogy]

We're in a shared reality, but how much of what we experience is really created by us? How much power do we have to make a difference in the reality that we experience?

Everything that you experience is being attracted to your consciousness by virtue of the dominant vibrations you are habitually activating through your attention (thoughts).

We can get out and do things, which has an obvious causal connection. But is ever the causal connection not obvious?

Like, as in, not through the mechanism of your own physical body?

Sure, all the time.

If we feel powerless, does this reduce our ability to manifest? What makes us more powerful and effective of a manifestor?

Yes, the feeling of powerlessness is very much at the lower end of deliberate creation of one's reality scale. The emotions that you feel are your physical perception of the variance between how your Higher Self is thinking or viewing the subject of what you're thinking about, and your perspective on the situation. You perceive the separation of your thoughts and the Higher Self's thoughts as negative, or discordant emotion. So when you are feeling powerless, it would be indicative that you are holding thoughts that are very different from what your Higher Self is giving its attention to.

What makes you a more deliberate creator of your own reality, is paying attention to your emotions. When you are able to give your attention predominately to what your Higher Self is giving its attention to, you have the benefit of its powerful momentum of thought, which is always geared towards what you are consciously and unconsciously desiring.

One of its predominant functions is to act as an emotional beacon for thoughts that will bring you into vibrational alignment with what you are really desiring.

If we are Infinity, and love/light and light/love, why are there rules and limits on what we create with our thoughts? Some things could never be realized in 3D given even a billion years.

Limits give flavor to reality. Without limits you would become bored very quickly, even if you are thinking otherwise. Limits empower creativity and shape experience. And a great deal can be realized in "3D". That vibrational spectrum includes nearly anything that is imaginable by a 3rd density being.

It is true that our portion of 3rd density that dips into red ray physical expression has certain physical properties that are very consistent, but there are infinite realities. Ours is not the only 3rd density expression there is. There are countless others. Some physical, with a different physics than we are accustomed to, and some not so physical.

I'm not worried about being able to manifest/create. But I feel sometimes powerless because of how powerful a thought really is in the grand scheme of the universe. They say thoughts are powerful, but how powerful really is our little spark of thought energy? Are there ways to increase one's resonance with intelligent infinity, to bring it forth in their thoughts?

Keep in mind that each portion of the whole contains the whole within it. Oneness is always the case, and separation is an illusion generated by vibrational offering. So "portions" are an illusion. Reality is always coalescing about your consciousness based on the vibrations that are activated. However, you only have access to thoughts that are relatively close to where you are currently at. You can't really think thoughts that are drastically different from your habitual vibrational offering. So often there is a gradual tuning to the vibration of what is wanted.

"The source of all distortions is the limit of the viewpoint."