by Sun van Horen
How free are we really? Is my opinion or my thought truly my opinion or thought? Are the choices I make really my choices? Why do I think the things I think? Wat is the effect of my thoughts?
The neuro scientific theory of today tells us that brains are ordened in such a fashion that they respond to everything in it’s surroundings. People you meet, things you learned and experienced in your life, things you read, see or own. We put everything in a sort of box that we know well. For the most part our brain is therefor equal to our surroundings. We think and react in the same manner as our surroundings. We think and behave in automatically saved ways and pathways.
To change this, we will have to learn to think bigger than our current circumstances is what Dr Joe Dispenza tells us.
Dr Joe studied among other things spontaneous remissions and the changing of our thinking. I saw him first in the film What the Bleep do we Know?! and the following quote stroke me: “I create my day the way I want it to happen.”
We have to think bigger than our environment in order to release ourselves from thinking, feeling and acting in encraved ways and create our own thoughts, yes our own future.
Change happens if we leave the old thinking patterns, so that a new outcome comes forth in our emotions and actions. Change is thinking and acting bigger than how we feel, larger than our conditioning of the past, than the known paths and our environment. We can take the time and really start to think for ourselves, independent of the cacophony of stimulances of the outer world. And then a change will occur in our brain.
For a very long time we have believed that our brain could not be changed. It has now been proven that our brains are so flexible that they can make new connections and thus produce new behavior. We have a lot more possibilities to change our brain, behavior, personality and in the end, our reality than we held possible for a very long time.
 The Brain: A Record of the Past or the Map to the Future?by Dr. Joe Dispenza
Everything that makes us up; the "you" and the "me"- our thoughts, our dreams, our memories, our hopes, our secret fantasies, our fears, our skills, our habits, our pains and our joys- is etched in the living lattice work of 100 billion brain cells. If you learn even one bit of information today, tiny brain cells will make new connections between them, and who "you" are will be altered. The images that we create in our mind as we process different streams of consciousness leave footprints in the vast endless fields of neurological landscape, which contribute to the identity called "you." For the "you" as a sentient being is immersed and truly exists in the interconnected electrical web of cellular brain tissue. We are a work in progress.
The brain is the organ of change. The concept in neuroscience called neuroplasticity demonstrates that the brain alters itself every time we learn something new. It also changes when we have a novel experience. And when we really change our mind, the brain changes… and when we change the brain, the mind changes. Here is what I mean. According to the working model of neuroscience, mind is the brain in action. Mind is the brain at work. With 100 billion nerve cells seamlessly wired together, it becomes apparent that we can produce many different levels of mind. Virtually, we can make the brain work differently because we can influence the brain to fire in different sequences, different patterns, and in different combinations in order to produce many diverse states of mind.
Not more than thirty or forty years ago, there was a unanimous belief in biology that the brain was hardwired, meaning that we are born with a certain amount of neurological connections and the finality in life was that we were going to turn out like our parents. But with the advent of the latest technologies in functional imagery it is apparent that it is very possible to make the brain work differently. In fact, the research out of the University of Wisconsin has proven something as simple as attention or focused concentration is a skill just like golf or tennis. In other words, the more you practice being conscious or mindful the better you get at it.
In addition, functional imagery has clearly proven that we can also change the brain just by thinking differently. For example, people that never played the piano were divided into groups. The first group physically played one-handed finger exercises like scales and cords, and as a result of the new activity, their brains changed. The before and after results of the functional brain scans showed new areas of the brain activated. In essence, not only did they make a new mind, literally new brain circuits flourished. However, when a second group was asked to mentally rehearse the same scales and cords in their mind for the same amount of time, they grew the same amount of brain connections as the group who physically demonstrated the activity. Simply put, when we are truly focused and attentive, the brain does not know the difference between what is happening in our minds eye and what is happening in the external world.
So, when you take the time out of your busy schedule and begin to intentionally dream a new reality, plan a new life, set a new practice goal, or design a new event for you to experience in your future, just remember that your brain is rewiring itself to your desires and your body is being reconditioned in order to prepare itself for that new event. Therefore, if you would mentally rehearse daily what it would be like to experience any event (just like the piano players), there would be internal changes taking place as if you were already beginning to experience your dream. By applying this understanding to the quantum model, which states that our subjective mind has an effect or control over our objective world (consciousness creates reality), we can begin to explore the idea that if our brain and our bodies are evidencing physical changes to look like the experience has already happened as a result of our mental efforts well before the physical manifestation has occurred, then theoretically the experience will find us!
This is a shortened article from Dr Joe Dispenza. He will be sharing his insights in Baarn on November 24, 2011 at the Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself lecture. On February 10-11, he teaching the Level 1 and 2 workshops where you will learn to ‘lose your mind and create a new one’.
Door Geert Kimpen (auteur De Kabbalist)
Mijn leven lang al ben ik gefascineerd door succes. Ik vroeg me altijd af waarom sommige mensen schijnbaar moeiteloos door het leven kunnen stappen en alles aantrekken wat hun hart begeert, en anderen geboren lijken om in al hun ondernemingen te mislukken. Was er een succes-gen misschien? Was het werkelijk zo dat er geboren winnaars en verliezers bestonden? Of wisten de winnaars misschien iets wat ze aan de verliezers verzwegen?
Veertig jaar lang heb ik aan de kant van de verliezers gestaan. Mijn grote droom om schrijver te worden, leek onmogelijk. Ik was jaloers op de jonge helden die het wel lukte. Ik snapte het niet. Ik deed er toch ook alles aan om mijn droom te leven? Mijn allergrootste droom, schrijver worden, gaf ik op. Ik nam genoegen met mijn B-droom; theaterregisseur worden. Maar ook dat ging niet over rozen...
Ik zat dan wel op de toneelschool, ik wist jaar na jaar over te gaan en uiteindelijk als enige af te studeren, en ik maakte dan wel toneelvoorstellingen met mijn eigen opgerichte theatergroep die aardig wat succes kende, maar ik was doodongelukkig, eenzaam en hoopte dat ik bedolven zou worden onder de boeken van mijn boekenkast, die mijn enige vrienden waren. “God” had een hoge prijs bedongen voor mijn droom.
Het offer is een zegening.
In elk offer zit een kosmische schoonheid verborgen. Een schoonheid die je vaak pas jaren later kan zien. Nadat je door het slijk bent gegaan, geleden hebt, en woedend naar de hemel hebt geroepen: “Waarom? Waarom in godsnaam?”.Het meisje waar ik toen zo van hield, zeg maar gerust verslaafd aan was, was natuurlijk niet mijn zielsverwante. Hoe zeer ik me, toen ze nog bij me was, probeerde te schikken naar haar vrije liefdesmoraal, waarbij ik haar om de haverklap in het bed vond met iemand anders. Het vrat me op. Het brandde mijn ziel uit. Pas veel later zag ik hoeveel ongelukkiger ik geweest was, toen ze nog bij me was. De nachten dat ik jankend als een wolf naar de maan mijn verdriet eruit schreeuwde omdat ik wist dat ze bij iemand anders was. Het was geen offer dat God aan me gevraagd had. Het was een bevrijding. Een zegening. Doordat God me van haar losscheurde, moest ik wel ontwennen aan haar, zoals een drugsverslaafde door een hel gaat wanneer hij zijn dagelijkse shot niet meer krijgt. En pas toen ik helemaal clean was, kwam er ruimte om opnieuw te beginnen. Of beter gezegd, pas echt te beginnen. Op het moment dat ik haar helemaal los had gelaten, niet meer naar haar verlangde, zelfs helemaal niet meer verlangde naar een liefdespartner, kwam Christine in mijn leven. De vrouw die mijn bestaan veranderde. Die me uitdaagde om werkelijk mijn grootste droom te leven; schrijver worden. Mijn zielsverwante.
Zo lijkt het dat wanneer we iets nieuws, iets groots willen bereiken, altijd iets achter ons moeten laten. Iets dat ons heel dierbaar is, waar we bijzonder aan gehecht zijn, en wat ons pijn doet wanneer we het af moeten staan. Maar pas in de moed om dat offer te maken, ligt de vervulling van onze droom. Pas wanneer we het mechanisme doorzien waarmee onze schulden berekend worden, kunnen we iets gemakkelijker de prijs opbrengen. We weten dan door ervaring dat wanneer er een nieuwe wens in ons ontwaakt, daar een prijs zal tegenover staan. En zodra een wens tot leven is gekomen, is er geen weg terug. Betalen zullen we. Hoe hard we ons ook verzetten, het incassobureau van God is onverbiddelijk. Geen middel wordt geschuwd om ons te dwingen de rekening te vereffenen. Als een brandende kaars gaan we in de wind staan. Want het leven is verandering. Wanneer we iets in ons leven willen veranderen, zullen we eerst zelf moeten veranderen. Passief op de bank zitten wachten tot het geluk naar ons toekomt, is tijdverlies. Het leven werkt op de wet van actie en reactie. Maar de actie moet altijd van onszelf uitgaan. Pas dan reageert God. Pas dan vinden we op ons pad waar we zo naar verlangden, zelfs al is de prijs zo hoog. God reist altijd incognito. We zien hem pas wanneer hij ons gepasseerd is.
De wetten van het leven.
Met vallen en opstaan leerde ik de regels van het leven. Maar op het moment dat ik werkelijk mijn droom ging leven, en alles opzij zette, om eindelijk mijn boek te gaan schrijven, ontdekte ik de handleiding van het leven. Tijdens de research voor mijn roman De Kabbalist, vond ik 10 oeroude levenswetten uit de mystieke wereld van de kabbala, die exact beschreven hoe alles in het universum tot stand komt. Van een babytje in de buik, tot het vervullen van je levenswens. Alles doorloopt dezelfde 10 fasen. Het zijn de 10 wetten van het leven die ze elke baby bij zijn geboorte cadeau zouden moeten doen. Ik ontdekte dat iedereen zijn dromen kan leven, hoe onmogelijk en onbereikbaar ze ook lijken. Het zijn 10 heldere, praktische wetten die je stap voor stap uitleggen hoe je jouw dromen manifesteert. Ze komen tot leven in het mini-seminar De Wetten van het Leven waarmee ik de komende weken door Nederland en Antwerpen tour.
Geert Kimpen
© 2011, Michael Bradford – Rev. 5.0
Some of us believe that we will only be happy and successful when we have created the perfect life and the perfect long-term relationship. This childhood dream includes commitment, marriage, family, children, nice car, good job and money in the bank. Here the focus is on the external physical, material world for achieving our identity and validation. It is all about looking good, having the right things. The more we have, the more we want. There is never enough. We constantly have to compete and prove ourselves. Sound familiar?
Too often we look outside of ourselves for our identity and for what is meaningful to us, when in reality, it already exists deep within us, simply waiting to be discovered. This includes self-acceptance, love, joy, happiness, health, peace, relationships, harmony, prosperity and abundance. If we could just stop and quiet our mind, we would be in the perfect place, in perfect flow and happy.
Instead, we were programmed to do lots of activities, work hard, stay busy, compete, get things and then hopefully, someday, if we achieve enough, we can “Be” happy, peaceful and content. We have been taught that having “Things” will bring us success and happiness. Only when we have the right brand clothes, car, watch – the good looking partner, the perfect children going to the perfect schools, only when we are totally healed will we be able to move from “Having” to “Being”, to experiencing who we truly are and to achieving true success.
Other philosophies teach us to ignore the “Outer World” and to instead focus on the “Inner World” of our thoughts, feelings and emotions. They teach that the attitudes and beliefs we hold sacred are the true creators of our external reality. Here the formula is totally different. Here we must first “Be” the person we wish to become, we must first learn to love, honour and respect ourselves – to like and be comfortable with all of who we are. We must first create an “Inner Energetic Alignment”, an “Inner Marriage”, and only when this is solidly in place, will this allow us to easily attract the really important positive things we desire.
When we are insecure, compete, prove ourselves or try to look good, we literally push success and happiness away. We can only attract true lasting happiness, success and abundance in our outer physical material world when we first relax and create a quiet peaceful space in our inner world – fully embracing the positive thoughts, feelings and emotions of success, peace, joy and happiness.
“Beingness” requires that we learn some very simple keys. The first is to live life being fully present in our physical body. The second is to balance our energy, welcoming and embracing all aspects of who we truly are. This is about having compassion for ourselves, and warmly welcoming, healing and making peace with our polarities, our opposites, our challenge, even our dark side. It is about learning to live more in acceptance, compassion, balance, harmony, in curiosity, in wonderment, in an open childlike receptive trusting state. This is a state of curiosity, openness, wonderment, experimentation, flexibility and flow.
A few of the polarities we have come to Earth to heal, balance and integrate include: Good/Bad, Right/Wrong, Light/Dark, Masculine/Feminine, Higher Self/Inner Child, Spiritual/Material, Love/Hate, All Power/No Power, Head/Heart, Greed/Poverty, Logic/Intuition, Giving/Receiving. We are all learning to be Authentic, Independent, Fully Present and Internally Referenced.
The more we embrace “Oneness”, the more we move into “Flow”, the happier, more successful, and the easier and more graceful our life will be!
Michael Bradford is in Holland from October 10 til 25th, 2011 for lectures, a workshop and private sessions. For more information, please check Bookings.
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door Hans Hesselmann