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Energize Your Life – Use Your Brain For A Change (Part 4)

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(…continued from last week)

Your Reference Reality

Your beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Dr. Henry Beecher of Harvard Medical School proved that the brain has the ability to override the effects of drugs. The power of belief is absolutely crucial to healing and health. He spent much of his career studying this and how we can make this come alive and use it to heal ourselves and to have medicine work better.

One experiment that Dr. Beecher did was with 100 student volunteers. He had them take two test drugs. One drug was in a red capsule, the other was in a blue. The students were told the red capsules were a super stimulant. You take these and they’re going to wire you right up. The other drug in the blue capsules, were said to be a tranquilizer that would rapidly take you out.

Actually the truth of it was that they were reversed. The red capsule actually was a barbiturate and the blue capsule had amphetamine in it. But the interesting thing that Dr. Beecher noted was that the students reacted as they thought these things were supposed to be, not as they actually were.

In other words, the red capsule which they had been told was a stimulant, was actually a barbiturate. They felt hyper, they felt up, their hearts rates increased, their body sensations got bigger and their brain waves got more excited.

When they took the blue, which was told to be a tranquilizer but was actually an amphetamine, they reacted to it as if it really was a tranquilizer. What happened was their heart slowed down, their body sensations diminished, their brain waves slowed down. Their bodies aligned with their beliefs, not with the drug that they took; incredible.

Your beliefs control your reality, because you think they are true and they are real. People treat beliefs as if they are a thing, and object, but they aren’t. They are just a concept, and a feeling of certainty, about something. It’s that feeling of knowing. It’s that feeling of ‘yes, this is true’.

Your emotional feeling about a person, place, thing, piece of knowledge, etc., is what makes the belief come alive. You believe this because of your references that support your thoughts about it. It’s the feeling you engage when you evaluate things that gives conviction to your statements, and power behind the beliefs.

For instance, how about the thought of ‘you’re smart’. Well if you compare yourself to other people who are on your level or a little below – if you compare yourself to Jim and Sue and Paul and Pete, all those guys – yeah, I do better than them.

If you are thinking, “I study better; I remember better, I do pretty good. I learn fairly quickly compared to most people in my sample. I retain things relatively well. I tend to remember things probably as long, or longer, than most people do. I feel very comfortable when I’m studying new information. It doesn’t make me uneasy. I do it relatively well.” If these are your thoughts, all of these come together to support your belief that you’re smart.

But if you were to compare yourself in intelligence to Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Linus Pauling and the gentleman who memorized word for word the entire encyclopedia you may not evaluate yourself quite so highly. You may not feel quite so smart.

See, your beliefs about smart are relative, they’re relative. And they are relative to whatever you reference your beliefs with. Whatever supports the logic; whatever supports the belief.

Carl Gustaf Young, the psychologist, said, “There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” Once again, there can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Your beliefs, the pain and pleasure, provide the emotion to energize your life. What do you want? These resources will help you move into a better day. You are the source of your emotions. You create them. You can direct them in ways that are to your benefit. You can send them anywhere you want to go. It’s truly a choice.

Whatever you tend to focus on most you will have more of. If you focus on those things that are failings; the stuff you struggle with, the things that are so hard for you. Those things that when you think about them just make you shudder, then life is going to be pretty tough.

On the other hand, if you focus on things you’re good at, you think positive, optimistic thoughts, you focus on the good stuff, the pleasure you’ve gotten from attending to and doing these things then your life will be more that way. It’ll be easier, you’ll be more proactive, it’ll flow better.

Again, it really is a choice. What are the references that you reference your life against? If they are to your benefit you feel more proactive. If they make you feel smaller or less than it will slow you down and block you.

(to be continued…)


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