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
