HEALING - ANOTHER WAY

Nothing is real -- unless you think about it. Pain, anger, and frustration let us know when something's gotten out of whack. Is it the thoughts, or the thinking about those thoughts? 

Thoughts are just thoughts, like cars passing in a busy street. They're not a problem until you step out into the traffic. It's the thinking that's the problem. Thoughts just pop in and out – around 50-80,000 of them every day. Most of them fly right on through, but some we latch onto and start thinking about. Then we either believe what we think about, or we question it: there's no other choice actually. Questioning our thoughts is the kinder way. Noticing what sticks and what we let go with detached curiosity always leaves us as wiser and more loving human beings.

Uninvestigated ideas and thoughts-in-motion (emotions) just arise in awareness all by themselves. They have no validity or potency until we believe in them in the moment. Byron Katie, in her book, “Loving What Is:” writes“A thought is harmless, unless we believe it. It’s not the thoughts, but our attachment to the thoughts – making them “ours”, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years on end.”

One of the key principles of quantum physics is that the thoughts we identify with, latch onto and believe determine our version of reality. Early in the 1900′s they proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt with an experiment called the Double Slit experiment, a rather nasty piece of investigating science in which a lot of cats died. But they found something remarkable. They discovered, and were able to prove (thanks to the unsuspecting cats) that the determining factor of the behaviour of energy ‘particles’ at the quantum level, is the awareness of the Observer....... the spectator affects the game more than the players.

Who or what, though, is this spectator? Is it you? Is it me? Our individual consciousness? Almost, but not quite, although we do have a palpable secondary effect. But there is something else...... Human consciousness – that thing we've always mistakenly assumed is “I” and “Me” – think of it as a multi-sensory and feeling camera, and there is a camera-person looking through the viewfinder – through our “I” and “Me”. Whatever that watcher is, it is unlocatable, unseeable, inscrutable. But it is there. Simply aware. And that is who we truly are.

Thus the fusion of all thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and intentions that “I” hooks onto, which I will call the Human Consciousness for simplicity’s sake, is perpetually informing a Quantum Consciousness that exists within every cell of us, and around us at each moment of our existence. That is who we really are, and that never goes away, no matter what happens. In the operating theatre, I am out to it – totally out of it – for 12 hours while they work on my heart, but all that while I still Am. Awareness doesn't go off duty – ever.

Another Way of seeing it........

I think it is absolutely clear that we must start to consider ourselves as something other than just a physical body, a mind, or even a spirit. To limit our awareness to this traditional perception is a bit like being at the seaside and seeing only the waves, and ignoring the ocean which gives them form, substance, and to which the waves return when they lose their form as a wave. Just as the ocean is “waving”, Awareness is “Barrie-ing”, and “you-ing”, and “tree-ing”, and.... and.... and.....
 

A thirsty desert bird was desperately looking for a drink of water. All he could find was some water in the bottom of a discarded jar. But he couldn't reach it; the neck was too narrow. He needed a new approach, or he would die. Suddenly he got an idea. He started picking up stones and dropping them into the jar until the water level rose to where he could get at it and drink his fill.

Some things just cannot be changed. In which case, maybe you need a new approach. Maybe if you stop believing everything you think about and feel about, it becomes much easier and more effective to shift away from your present fantasy of “What-I-am” // to seeing yourself as that Awareness that organises and manifests itself in every thought, feeling and form that arises within this awareness. To put it another way, be the pure awareness temporarily experiencing this level of reality through all its creations, including what we call “I”, “you”, “me” and “those”.

 

New quantum science evidence is clearly illustrating that Awareness is non-local and is independent of the brain. This means Awareness doesn’t need the brain, or the body for that matter, to exist. But it's a lot more fun to have these things, preferably in working order, to give us something entertaining to think about.

 
But we take the fun stuff too personally and get sick. The first step to healing is to allow the possibility that we are not who we've always thought we are – the body, mind and feelings we inhabit. We are that which created, and is thoughtlessly aware, of all that stuff -- we are a creation of the infinite energy all around and through us. 

 

Consider also that we can consciously tap into this energy that we are, to promote healing in our body and mind, to become a more happy, healthy, vibrant and creative being. As soon as we start to connect to the infinite energy of creation and our own true nature as formless energy, then we start to become aware of these same energies passing throughout our body. This recognition begins healing. All we need to do is see it. There's nothing else to be done.

Byron Katie writes:-

“If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you get that an untrue thought causes your pain, you move away from it.” Naturally.