The Spontaneous Healing of Belief
Your Beliefs Are Not What You Think
Gregg Braden is the author of numerous bestselling books. His latest is The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Hay House USA, 2008). He will be speaking at Hay House's I Can Do It! conference being held in Las Vegas this June 27-29. See www.icandoit.net
According to Gregg Braden our heart has a bigger role to play in our beliefs than our brain. In the areas of healing and changing we might want to put down our affirmations and start concentrating on our feelings.
Marlene: Last year I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I'm fine now, but many things about my body have changed, largely in direct opposition to my previous belief that I simply could not lose weight. I lost thirty pounds without going on a diet and the weight continues to stay off. When asked how I did it, I have no answer. I didn't “do” anything. Can you shed some light on this for me?
Gregg: Our bodies are amazingly intelligent. And, strangely enough, they always know precisely what we need, even if it's not what we consciously think or believe. Our bodies usually respond to demands placed on them in ways that aren't always obvious to us.
There's a new science evolving called Epi Genetics, that's showing us that DNA, while important, is not necessarily what's running the show in our bodies. We know that DNA holds the code, but the code has to be given instructions from somewhere in order to become active. This is now what the next great frontier of science is all about. The code comes from the environment around the cells, and that includes thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs that we create within our bodies. Some of them are conscious. Often they're not. We know that our bodies are responding to commands that we may or may not be aware of. With that in mind, let me launch into some information from the book.
Excellent.
Well, the new book is called, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits. This time last year we had just released another book entitled The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Belief , which was the result of 22 years of my research documenting what our science is now telling us in very technical journals.
It is what our most cherished spiritual traditions have always indicated. It is now a fact, proven in science, that everything is connected to everything else through a field of energy. While writing The Divine Matrix , I included a chapter about our ability to communicate with this field through feeling and belief. I didn't want the concept to get swallowed up as a side bar and I felt that it needed to stand on its own. As a result, a year later it has been released in a separate book: “ The Spontaneous Healing of Belief. It begins by describing two false assumptions on which we have based our lives. The first is that the space between things is empty, the idea that everything's separate from everything else and that 96 per cent of the universe is empty space.
Yes, it's hard to think there may be something there when we can't detect it with our senses.
And the second is that our thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs have no effect on the world beyond our bodies.
We now know that those are false assumptions and it is a scientific fact that an energy field exists. We also know that the feelings and emotions based in our hearts create patterns of energy inside our bodies. These electrical and magnetic fields influence more than just the healing in the cells inside our bodies. Certain qualities of feeling, emotion and belief in our bodies can influence the physical world beyond our bodies. We have the power to rearrange the atoms which make up our world. This was the great secret of the mystics in the ancient traditions and the secret that was deleted from our traditional Christian biblical text in the fourth century. We found the original text in 1988.
My background is in the hard sciences. I was working as a defense engineer building nuclear missiles during the last years of the Cold War when I began researching this material. I began to realize that while Western society had lost this information, it was not lost in other traditions. So I began a journey to find what exactly we had lost. This included monasteries of Bolivia and southern Peru, the mountains of Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and the Highlands of Central China, which is now Tibet.
We discovered the books that were lost from our early Christian traditions in the twelve monasteries and two nunneries on the Tibetan plateau. They document the principles that we're talking about. Everyone is born with the nonverbal language of the heart that communicates with our bodies and our world. If we can hone that language in just the right way, we can affect what seems like miraculous healings in ourselves and in the world. It's really all based on “feeling,” which we have discounted in the west.
We now know is that the electrical strength of the heart is up to 60 times as great as the electrical signal from the brain. Our heart's magnetic field is as much as 5,000 times stronger than that of the brain. So when we create a feeling in our hearts, we are literally creating a pattern of energy that's stronger than any thought in our minds. I think this is the reason that feeling is so much more powerful than thought.
It's all to do with the power of emotion, feeling and belief in healing. I had an opportunity to document information of a very rare video that was made in a Chinese hospital where they employ these principles and have no medicine. There was a woman there who'd been diagnosed by western doctors with an inoperable cancerous tumor in her bladder. They'd said they couldn't help her.
So she'd gone to a clinic in China which uses no medicine. Using ultrasound, we were able to look into her body and watch her tumor respond while three practitioners were standing beside her bed using the principles that we've been discussing. The feeling they were having in their hearts was that the woman was already healed. They were feeling the outcome of the healing rather than rationalizing her recovery in stages with the tumor gradually shrinking and disappearing. They were honing a language of feeling rather than thought.
In two minutes forty seconds, we could see the tumor disappear from the woman's body. That's how quickly physical matter responds, if we understand the language.
In the year 2000 I went for a checkup in Florida and the doctor told me I had something inside my bladder that wasn't supposed to be there. He said “You know, this needs to come out.”
“Well,” I said, “let me work on it for a couple of weeks.”
Was it cancer?
It was. I knew that this was the opportunity for me to practice what I'd been sharing with audiences and had learned in the monasteries and from my Native American friends. I did the techniques and the principle as I've learned them, but still wanted to be sure. So I went to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
I underwent a full medical procedure. I was anaesthetized and taken to the operating room. The next thing I knew, I woke up and the doctor said, “Why are you here? There's nothing to be seen: no redness or scarring. There's no sign that anything was ever there.” He took a 360 degree picture inside my bladder and showed it to me. Meanwhile, I was half anaesthetized and I was telling him about hospitals in China which don't use medicine and about the power of human emotion, none of which he wanted to hear as he was walking out of the room. I believe this was an opportunity for me to practice what I'd been talking about.
So you were diagnosed, pictures and all, with cancer in your bladder before going to the Mayo Clinic?
Yes. I can now look at anyone eye-to-eye and say from the bottom of my heart, “I know that these principles work because I've experienced them.”
So, of course I have to ask, what did you do between the time you were initially diagnosed and the time you went in for your operation? Did you actually go in with the presumption that they were going to remove your cancer surgically?
I did, because—and this is the catch—even when we believe that we have that power and even when we all say we believe we have the power to heal, Marlene, in all honesty I think the conditioning is so strong that we become powerless.
Yes.
In our world, when someone tells you that something's wrong with your body, we lose trust. Maybe we think our body has let us down. For me it was probably my way of making sure that everything was really OK. So I wanted to do it at the best place possible and where I would have confidence. That was the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.
I guess the doctors had all the different x-rays and test results and thought they were going to remove a cancerous tumor?
They did. I was completely anaesthetized. They took me to the operating room and then I was out. When I woke up, they said, “What are you doing here?”
What I did is based on the principles that I've just shared. We can honestly and truthfully feel the outcome in our hearts and give thanks of gratitude and appreciation for what's already happened. There's a subtle and a powerful difference between feeling from the outcome and thinking towards the outcome.
I think we learn that when we build something in our physical world, we have to go step-by-step in a logical sequence. We collect all the pieces of information together and go through a sequential process to get to our goal. That's the way we're conditioned to proceed in our world. That is appropriate in the physical world. But we're talking about a spiritual energy, a nonphysical energy that works from the other side. When we can feel that peace has already happened between nations or if we can feel that abundance, both spiritual and material, already exists in our lives, honestly living from the feeling that these things have already happened rather than wishing or hoping that they will happen, we have the trigger that allows these fields of energy to respond in kind. And this is precisely the way miraculous healings occur. But they're only miracles until we understand the mechanism and then it becomes a technology.
Right. How is that different from “fake it ‘til you make it?” What's the difference? How do you know that you're really feeling the outcome? Are we deluding ourselves?
This is where the workshop of life begins. This puts us through all our paces about our beliefs of who we are and what our role in the universe is. Are we passive observers? Victims? Are we powerful creators? Can we be powerful creators in specific circumstances? When we doubt, even with the proof of all the studies and science, where does that doubt come from? What is the belief we have that doesn't trust our body to heal itself? What is the belief that we have the wisdom to become better people and create a better world? That's the workshop of life right there.
How do we figure out what those doubts are? How can we discover the beliefs we have that sabotage the results we want?
Well, there's another book, I published called “ Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer.”
No, no, no. I want you to tell me now!
In the book I share the template of precisely what we can do today. It begins with our ability to transcend our judgment over what's happened in the past. There are precise instructions about how to bless the things that have hurt us in the past.
When we do a blessing, it doesn't mean that we condone what's happened or consent to it. We acknowledge that it's present. That acknowledge-ment opens the door to a new possibility. Healing in Chinese hospitals with no medicine doesn't judge cancer as good or bad. It's only one of many possibilities. Judgment of the goodness or badness of what's happening is avoided. That judgment is what stands between us and our healing.
So, let's say we have cancer which we judge to be bad. Does that judgment make the cancer even stronger?
You've answered your own question. If you have a judgment that your cancer is bad, how can you at the same time honestly feel as if the healing has already occurred?
Obviously you can't.
Quantum physicists tell us that all possibilities already exist and that we have the ability to manifest all possibilities in our lives and in our bodies. So when something happens that we'd like to change, if we can move away from judging it, we will be using the language of the heart. We have gratitude and appreciation for the healing that's already occurred.
Let me just give another example. Scientists have shown that when many people get together and experience the feeling of peace in their hearts, as opposed to thinking it in their minds, the peace extends beyond the building where they are. It can affect a broad, geographic area. This happened during the Israeli/Lebanese War in the early 1980's. People were trained to feel peace in their bodies. They were stationed throughout the war-torn areas. As they created peace in their bodies, the terrorist activities stopped throughout the area. Emergency hospital visits declined, traffic accidents declined, violent crimes against people declined. When they stopped what they were doing, those statistics reversed.
Thinking it might be a fluke, they repeated the experiment, changing the variables and ultimately documenting the results in a journal called Conflict Resolution, volume 32. Their conclusion was, “When a certain number of people claim peace in their hearts, statistically that peace will be mirrored in the broad, geographic area.” They were able to determine the formula: the square root of 1% of a given group is the number of people required to “jump-start” peace. Whether in a family home or in a community or a city, a nation or a planet, the formula's the same. On a planet of six billion people, the square root of 1% of six billion people is just under 8,000.
This is not the same as thinking, requesting or praying for something or working towards it. There's a subtle but powerful difference. It's very difficult for the western mind to come from something we don't see. This is where we are tested concerning what we believe about our reality.
Given how we think things “should” be or how we want them to be, isn't it a challenge to see clearly the reality of any situation? And isn't it also true that we can't change anything until we know what is real?
Absolutely. We don't want to be in denial. Here's an example. I moved to the high deserts of northern New Mexico in the early 1990s during one of the worst droughts in its history. A native friend of mine from one of the pueblos asked me if I would like to pray for rain with him. We went to a stone circle in which he put his naked feet after taking off his shoes. Then he turned his back to me, held his hands in prayer and closed his eyes for a few seconds. Then he turned around and said, “I'm hungry, do you want to get a bite to eat?”
“Yes”, I said. “But I thought you were going to pray for rain.”
“No,” he said. “If I prayed for rain, it could never happen, because the moment you pray for something, you are acknowledging its absence and you may be empowering the very condition that you want to change.”
So I asked, “What did you do when you closed your eyes?”
He said, “When I closed my eyes, I felt the feeling of the rain, what it feels like to stand with my bare feet in the mud which exists just because there's been so much rain.” He added, “I smelled the smells.”
He told me he incorporated his senses and expressed thanks of gratitude and appreciation for past rain. But before doing any of that—and this is the key—he blessed the drought. He said, “The drought has been our medicine up until now. Now we're going to choose new medicine.”
It goes back to the same thing we see in the hospitals in China, the hospitals without medicine. They're not judging the condition, they're acknowledging it and in that neutrality they're able to make a choice for something new.
We find this in the lost text, one of the instructions Jesus left with the disciples when they were saying “Master, how do you create the miracles?” He answered, “To be surrounded by the things that you desire, be enveloped by the joy as if your prayers have already been answered.”
As a scientist, I have to tell you this is a different way to think about our world until we understand that the world is made of electrical and magnetic patterns of energy and that our hearts create those patterns. When we have a feeling or a belief about something, we are creating patterns of electrical and magnetic energy. If we create the right patterns they will influence our bodies and our world. That's precisely what the science is now telling us.
Let me see if I get this. Let's say I have a feeling in my body which is a disease. I am surrounded by people who have the feeling of wellness, of health. Then I start resonating to their feeling of wellness. My body starts taking on their patterns of wellness. Is it like entrainment in music, which is the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm?
I would say that's exactly what it is. So now we can see how all this comes back to my book, “ The Spontaneous Healing of Belief. ” Rather than my attempting to convince or persuade anyone of anything, I've found that people are willing to change their beliefs if they're given a good reason and they can see that it serves them to do so.
Gregg Braden is also author of The God Code and The Divine Matrix. See www.greggbraden. com. Marlene Martin is a freelance writer in Miami FL. MarleneVirginia@aol.com
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