Yup, its all about the terrain and the environment that WE create through our thought patterns (belief systems). Our physically projected body just follows suit.
I highly recomend Bruce Lipton's "Biology of Belief" for more on this. Candace Pert has some interesting ideas regaurding this as do most sages thru the ages.
We are creators and co-creators of our reality.
When we filter our experience (ongoing creation process) through a pattern of victomhood, we lose our power to things "outside ourself" (they really aren't at higher levels of consciousness). The key is to clear the programming and get back to creating and experiencing life through a clear lense.