This resonates with me - we experience what we believe. I saw a Joe Dispensa (sp?)video yesterday at Vicki's spiritual group on "Changing your mind" and how hard that can be do do when much of our habits are in the subconscious mind (aka body) and are "hardwired. Perhaps that is our job now - to clear the old habits and hardwiring

Michael

We only see what we believe... Experience creates belief, belief creates
thought, thought creates action (production of chemicals eg, peptides in the
body) which we interpret as a feeling. A thought combined with a feeling in the
body creates an internal experience. Experience validates belief, which in turn
creates a positive mind/body feedback system...

We then create external experiences to validate our beliefs and to cause the
production of more peptides (which are the molecules of our emotions), hence the
human drama of life patterning and addiction.

The re-creating of the past in the present is what becomes our perceived Œnormal
or usual¹, what we focus on. Simply, this is because the more we have a
particular experience the more a particular peptide is produced and the more our
bodies build cell receptors to receive the most frequently produced peptide from
the hypothalamus and from other areas of the body (Mastering the Art of
Observation, 2005).

The more cell receptors, the more we need to create experiences that cause our
body to produce more peptides to fit those cell receptors, this is the mind/body
emotional feedback system. This is the physical basis of addiction and of why
people perceive some things to be Œnormal¹ (its what we become used to
chemically in our bodies) and other things to not be normal and why focus on
particular things and not others.

In her book Molecules of Emotion Dr Candace Pert writes:

³Emotions are constantly regulating what we experience as ³reality². The
decisions about what sensory information travels to your brain and what gets
filtered out depends on what signals the receptors are receiving from the
peptides. There is a plethora of elegant neurophysiological data suggesting that
the nervous system is not capable of taking in everything, but can only scan the
outer world for material that it is prepared to find by virtue of its wiring
hookups, its own internal patterns, and its past experience. The superior
colliculus in the midbrain, another nodal point of neuropeptide receptors,
controls the muscles that direct the eyeball, and effects which images are
permitted to fall on the retina and hence to be seen² (1997, pp. 147 & 148).

So what we are seeing and looking at in everyday life, and what controls the
steering of the eyeballs is governed by what peptides our cells are needing, or
in other words what emotional state we are addicted to. Hence, we will
only see what we believe... Andrew

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This study shows the mind and patient beliefs dramatically affect drug effects both able to increase the effect and descrease it - not just on a pain scale but in actual physically measurable functioning. Makes you wonder if everyday thoughts are just as important to control... :-)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110226212356.htm

The Oxford University team, along with colleagues from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, Cambridge University, and the Technische Universität München, set out to investigate these effects among 22 healthy adult volunteers by giving them an opioid drug and manipulating their expectations of the pain relief they might receive at different points.

The volunteers were placed in an MRI scanner and heat applied to the leg at a level where it begins to hurt -- set so that each individual rated the pain at 70 on a scale of 1 to 100. An intravenous line for administration of a potent opioid drug for pain relief was also introduced.

After an initial control run, unknown to the participants, the team started giving the drug to see what effects there would be in the absence of any knowledge or expectation of treatment. The average initial pain rating of 66 went down to 55.

The volunteers were then told that the drug would start being administered, although no change was actually made and they continued receiving the opioid at the same dose. The average pain ratings dropped further to 39.

Finally, the volunteers were led to believe the drug had been stopped and cautioned that there may be a possible increase in pain. Again, the drug was still being administered in the same way with no change. Their pain intensity increased to 64. That is, the pain was as great as in the absence of any pain relief at the beginning of the experiment.

The researchers used brain imaging to confirm the participants' reports of pain relief. MRI scans showed that the brain's pain networks responded to different extents according to the volunteers' expectations at each stage, and matching their reports of pain.

This showed the volunteers really did experience different levels of pain when their expectations were changed, although the administration of pain relief remained constant.

Professor Tracey notes that these results have been seen in a small, healthy group of volunteers, and that these are short-term, not sustained, manipulations of the participants' beliefs about the treatment.

But she says it's important not to underestimate the strength of the effect of such expectations on any treatment, and that clinicians need to know how to manage that.

Professor Tracey says there may also be lessons for the design of clinical trials. These are often carried out comparing a candidate drug against a dummy pill to see if there is any effect of a drug above and beyond that of the placebo.'We should control for the effect of people's expectations on the results of any clinical trial. At the very least we should make sure we minimize any negative expectations to make sure we're not masking true efficacy in a trial drug.'

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I liked this. I have been working on eliminating "I will miss you" from
my vocabulary and instead focus on what is here now. Missing is an
emotion of lack for me and I chose to focus on what I do have.
love
M/M

[email protected] wrote:

> A reply from some time ago…
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> Your addiction to your partner...
>
> When you base your feeling of happiness on something outside of yourself
> it does not work ?- you will never feel fully fulfilled.
> Your feeling of well-being is dependant on something that is not under
> your control.
> If they were to die, or leave, you would have a choice: curl up and be
> depressed; find another partner - with whom to depend upon for happiness;
> be with yourself and feel what you are feeling.
>
> If you look to the past, or the future, you are not here.
> The depth of the state of well-being is in this moment. Only this moment.
> If you look back you are not here; if you look forward you are not here.
> Life/living is here now. Now.
> Missing something is not here; looking forward to something is not here.
> And there is only here. Missing something equals not being here; looking
> forward to something equals not being here.
>
> When your partner is not there, be where you are, in each moment.
> When the mind goes one nanosecond to the past, or future, you will not be
> here now, and you will feel missing. Be in each moment ? just each moment,
> and be with how it is, or take responsibility, and change it.
>
> Either be here, and feel what you are feeling, or go there, but not here
> complaining about not being there. Be responsible.
> If you have decided to be where you are, and your partner is not there (or
> even if they are there) just be with who you are, in that very moment.
>
> Do not listen to the addictive process of the mind. Be where you are,
> exactly as you are. If you are away, and missing them, and you have
> decided to stay away, just feel exactly what you are feeling, and accept
> it. 
> Don’t complain it is not intelligent.
>
> (In the film What the Bleep one scientist keeps saying that when you look
> at
> an object, say, a chair, a certain part of the brain is activated. If you
> are blindfolded and asked to think of the chair, the same part of the brain
> is activated in exactly the same way. So when we look ? do we see a chair,
> or our brain activation? When we see our partner, do we see out partner,
> or our brain simulation?)

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I have read Druvalo's Flower of Life books (interesting info on human history and UFOs) and watch some of his videos - good stuff. Now a look at were we might be going and a reminder to clear. I have been clearing since I came to Bolivia. Just learned Ana B'Koach meditation and boy is it clearing me more!

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