BIOLOGY of BELIEF

This book, about the science of biology and how our beliefs affect our cellular structure, corroborates one of the precepts relayed by The Poems; thoughts have power and can be used for good or ill, just as prayer (positive thought) can be used to heal someone, and a physical weapon can be used to harm someone. Your thoughts are like arrows and can be just as deadly.

You can choose how to expend your thought energy just as you choose how to use your physical energy. Thought is energy; there is positive thought energy and there is negative thought energy. Then again, there is thought that falls in neither category that uses our energy and leaves us with nothing in return. Most of human thought is wasted in mindless, non productive energy, an aimless meandering along a mental path that leads nowhere and came from nowhere and accomplishes nothing. Thought has such tremendous power, we actually could move a mountain with it. Well, YOU CAN move mountains in your life; just channel your thoughts into rivers of power to electrify your dreams, goals, and wishes. You can make it happen.

You CAN develop good productive thought patterns. You can train yourself to think constructive thoughts that are good for you both physically and mentally and will nourish your Soul and give your emotional self a soft place to fall.

THE BIOLOGY of BELIEF
Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce Lipton 2005

You can borrow it from your public library if you don’t want to buy it.

Here are the points in the book I found enlightening, and my response:

1. Each atom has its own specific energy signal (wobble); assemblies of atoms (molecules) collectively radiate their own identifying energy patterns. Every material structure in the Universe, including you and me, radiates a unique energy signature.

My response: The Poems said this same thing and described the congregation of Souls as Soul Soup. Have you ever met someone or been someplace and had that feeling you knew them? Well, you did. Your brain can see the identifying signal that is registered through your eye and while you cannot recognize the identity in the three percent reality you perceive on earth, the other 97% of your brain does recognize those identifiers. It gives you that vague, deja vu feeling because you cannot clearly comprehend what is in that 97%. I once met someone that I felt I could walk into and not know where I ended and the other person began; I know I was looking at my own Soul.

2. An atom has no physical structure; it is made out of invisible energy, not physical matter. The Universe is not made up of discrete physical objects separated by dead space. It is one indivisible dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled, it is impossible to consider them as independent elements. We in the Western world are reared to think linearly, A to B to C to D to E, while the Eastern world is reared to think holistically in a circular diagonal fashion. If the world was as simple as A to B to C and something went wrong with C, it might be possible to correct B, but when every particulate of existence is a feedback/feedforward, it is sometimes impossible to untangle where the problem might be.

My response: We have made such a hodge podge mess of every atomic reality exhibited on earth, only the Master Physicist of the Universe that we call God can unravel what we have caused and make it right.

3. Our medical profession was established on Newtonian linear laws; a matter only Universe when the Universe is actually made out of energy; apples and oranges. Adverse reaction to prescription drugs causes more than 300,000 deaths a year. We have been programmed by big pharmaceutical corporations to become a nation of prescription drug popping junkies.

My response: If energy healing could be manufactured in a pill form, if light could be captured and sold as an elixir, Big Pharm would be happy to invest in its study. But light is free; the healthy healing energy of light is free. It is a God given right guaranteed by the Bible.

4. Energy fields travel easily through the body. Energy waves expressed by vibrational frequencies can alter the physical and chemical properties of an atom just as physical signals such as histamine and estrogen can.

My response: The Poems and Night Writings said there are requisites to being a good receiver; drink plenty of water; be slim; be quiet for a while everyday to allow yourself to listen to God speak to you. If you are chattering incessantly, God can’t get a word in edgeways. Electrical signals travel best in water, salt water especially, and fat impedes those signals. Have you ever noticed people ravaged by cancer seem to “see” things as they become thinner and thinner? Doctors say their brains are hallucinating because of the chemical imbalance they are experiencing before death. Well, duh, No crap Dick Tracy. Yes, a severe change in the chemical makeup of our brain does open it to messages unavailable before. To be a good receiver, you must be healthy. There are healthy ways to become lean and that is what you need to do. Weight lifting is the best way to accomplish firmer muscle mass and walking, especially if you have heavy boobs, is the ideal cardio. If you can go to a gym, the elliptical is more strenuous than walking without putting the stress on your female anatomy that jogging does.

5. Thoughts, the mind’s energy, directly influences how the physical brain controls the body’s physiology. When you first begin to exercise channeling your thoughts into productive positive energy waves, it will be as uncomfortable as exercising physical muscles or doing brain teasers in the beginning. You will need to monitor your thoughts and keep them on track until you form a habit of your new way of using your mental energy.

My response: It takes about six weeks to form a habit and three weeks to break one. You will be doing both these things, breaking your habit of negative destructive thinking and mindless, aimless unproductive thinking and replacing it with goal oriented, positive, hopeful thought patterns. You know, it has not helped mankind to be accused of indulging in wishful thinking. So go ahead, do some constructive wishful thinking.

6. Our biology adapts to our beliefs.

The subconscious mind processes 20,000,000 environmental stimuli per second vs 40 environmental stimuli interpreted by the conscious mind in the same second.

The conscious mind can think in the past and in the future while the subconscious mind can only think in the present moment.

The learned and programmed behaviors and beliefs acquired from other people, parents, peers, and teachers are probably NOT in sync with our own conscious desires and goals. It is next to impossible for us to override those instilled behaviors and beliefs with our conscious efforts. There is a constant struggle between the conscious will to power and subconscious programs. One cannot reason with the subconscious tape player and it is an immense task to undo the programing we received as children.

My response: This is what the Bible is talking about when it says to be born again; to take off the old man and put on the new man; to leave behind all the indoctrination of childhood and allow God to directly speak to your Self. Only He can crack the nut shell of the misinformation and opinionation encapsulating your Soul, and break free the new person inside.

So what does all this mean for your life?

The “placebo effect”, the “nacebo effect” (the power of negative beliefs), the perception effect, the belief effect; our perceptions, true or not, impact our behavior and our bodies equally. Studies prove placebos are almost as effective as the drugs being studied, the difference being so close as to be clinically meaningless. Drug companies are studying patients who respond to sugar pills with the goal of weeding them out of early clinical trials. These “belief effect” patients threaten their engineered chemical drug profits.

When the mind changes, it absolutely affects our biology.