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You are insignificant in this universe and nothing you think or feel has the power to change the world around you.

Does that belief sound familiar? It should, since it was installed in nearly all of us as children. Why? Because for the past 300 years, science has led us to believe that our inner experience cannot affect reality. Since Newton published his laws of physics, we’ve accepted that we are just passive victims in a world where things happen for no apparent reason. Since that time, the scientific research has been grounded in the belief that our consciousness – our beliefs and thoughts and feelings – simply were not part of the equation.

In addition to science’s belief (which has become our belief) that we cannot affect the world around us, our parents taught us that there are authorities in this world – teachers, doctors, policemen – and we are not them. We don’t know and we don’t have power.

But…

The Revolution

A quiet revolution has been taking place for the past 100 years, and it’s challenging the very nature of our reality. This revolution, provoked by validated, paradigm-shattering scientific research, provides the evidence that we are, in fact, the architects of our reality.

Newton’s mechanical view of the universe sees the smallest particles of our world as just things. If the world is made up of things, of course we can’t affect those things with our beliefs. However, quantum physics looks at the universe quite differently, and we’ve recently discovered the following three very important piece of information:

1. Quantum energy can exist in two forms – waves and particles.

2. A quantum particle can be in more than one place at once and no matter how far apart they appear physically, they act as if still connected.

3. Quantum particles are not limited to past, present, and future.

Why is this relevant to you and your illness? Because if quantum particles can do miraculous things that defy the “laws” of science as we know them, and we’re made of quantum particles, then WE can do miraculous things as well.

As Gregg Braden says in his book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief [affiliate link]:

Scientists have shown that while we may think that we’re only observing our world, in fact it’s impossible for us to simply “watch” anything. Whether our attention is focused on a quantum particle during a laboratory experiment or anything else – from the healing of our bodies to the success of our careers and relationships – we have expectations and beliefs about what we’re watching. Sometimes we’re consciously aware of these preconceptions, but often we’re not. It’s these inner experiences that become part of what we’re focused on. By “watching,” we become part of what we’re watching.

In the words of Wheeler, that makes us all “participators.” The reason? When we focus our attention on a given place in a moment of time, we involve our consciousness. And in the vast field of consciousness, it appears that there’s no clear boundary that tells us where we stop and the rest of the universe begins. When we think of the world in this way, it becomes clear why the ancients believed that everything is connected. As energy, it is.

As scientists continue to explore just what it means to be participators, new evidence points to an inescapable conclusion: that we live in an interactive reality where we change the world around us by changing what happens inside of us while we’re watching – that is, our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

Are you willing to accept the responsibility?

So, if our beliefs hold so much power, where do they come from and what if our beliefs are wrong? What if we’re more than we’ve been taught to believe? What if our powerlessness and hopelessness in the face of disease is simply based on a limiting belief we inherited from our family, our culture, our science, our past?

Before we go any further, then, ask yourself this: Are you willing to accept the scientifically proven relationship between reality and belief and the responsibility that comes with this power? The responsibility to heal yourself?

This was Part 1 in a 5-part series. To be continued in Part 2…

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I received an important question in response to my post the other day. Pam wants to know: “If you tell yourself that you are healed, and then you continue to experience symptoms when you try to go about doing things that you want to do and you used to do, how do you keep up the positive thoughts when your body is telling you otherwise?”

Let me begin by saying that telling yourself you’re already healed and thinking positive thoughts will not get you where you want to go.

You need to be able to FEEL as if you have already healed. Working toward a result is not the same as thinking from it. When we work toward a result we’re perpetually on our way somewhere, with no definitive end in sight. On the other hand, when we enter into the image of what it is we want – total health – we are already there.

Breaking the Concrete Block

In Gregg Braden’s The Divine Matrix, he uses the metaphor of a martial artist who breaks a concrete block or a stack of boards with his bare hands. The key to succeeding in such an endeavor is to focus your attention not on the point of contact but in the place of the completed act – the healing already accomplished and the brick already broken. In Braden’s words:

Martial artists do this by centering their awareness on a point that’s beyond the bottom of the block. The only way their hand can be in this place is if they’ve already passed through the space between them and that point. The fact that the space happens to be occupied by something solid, such as a concrete block, becomes almost secondary. In this way, they’re thinking from the point of completion, rather than about the difficulty of getting to there. They’re experiencing the joy of what it feels like to accomplish the act, as opposed to all the things that must occur before they can be successful. This simple example offers a powerful analogy for precisely the way consciousness seems to work.

Cultivating the Frequency of Health

What you want to do is build and cultivate the state of wellness for yourself – what is your body like when you are healthy, vibrant, and strong? Begin to explore this – discover the frequency of health for yourself and grow it.

If you need to remember back to a time when you felt healthy, do that. Or imagine what health feels like. But make sure that you imagine with your entire body, in other words, literally embody the feeling. Feel it in your muscles, in your bones, in your gut, in your limbs. Feel how healthy your body already is, right now. This feeling of health is the singular state that you are building toward. Putting your attention on this feeling is like picking up the key to the lock that will open the door to your health.

So what happens if I’m symptomatic?

If you’re experiencing symptoms and you’re finding it difficult to maintain the frequency of health in that moment, then don’t force it. The worst thing you could do for yourself is to set up a situation in which you don’t just feel sick but you also feel like a failure!

In those moments, do something else entirely. White light meditation is an excellent way to bring yourself back to the frequency of health without fighting against the state you’re currently in. Instead of resisting your symptoms, simply sit down and imagine white light flowing through your body. This will relax you, ease any anxiety you feel, and generate a healing frequency – which is where you want to be.

Identify Your Beliefs

Finally, it’s essential to identify and explore your beliefs to ensure that they support your ability to get well. If you haven’t yet, listen to my interview with Bruce Lipton about the power of belief. I’ve been receiving lots of inquiries since the interview was published about how, exactly, beliefs can be changed. I’ll be addressing this over the next few days in a special five-part series called “Changing Your Beliefs: The Key to Self-Healing”.

The core of my private consulting work is identifying beliefs that aren’t useful for your healing and changing them so that they support your journey to health. True to my path, I’ve put profound transformation and health at the center of all that I do and I now work to help my private clients do the same – guiding them in moving their lives from a place of anxiety, fear, and hopelessness to a reality anchored in a state of potent possibility, power, inspiration and purpose.

For more information on working with me privately click here.

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A man in his twenties had been diagnosed with a rare heart condition which doctors believed would be fatal. Neville, the visionary and mystic and author of the book The Power of Awareness, came to visit the man on his deathbed. He asked the man to experience himself as if the healing had already taken place. “I suggested that in imagination, he see the doctor’s face expressing incredulous amazement in finding him recovered, contrary to all reason, from the late stages of an incurable disease, that he see him double-checking in his examination and hear him saying over and over, ‘It’s a miracle, it’s a miracle.’”

Of course, the man did indeed recover and go on to live a healthy and happy life.

This story is told in Gregg Braden’s book The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief. Braden explains:

The secret, the man revealed, was that rather than simply wishing for his health, since the day of their meeting, he had lived from the “assumption of already being well and healed.” And herein we find the secret of propelling our heart’s desires from the state of imagination to the reality of our everyday lives: It’s our ability to feel as if our dreams have already come to life, our wishes are fulfilled, and our prayers already answered.

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