Our Beliefs Create Our Thoughts–What Are You Thinking?

Throughout history there were hundreds of well known and effective thought leaders. The most profound thought leaders can be discovered by looking back to ancient times.

Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities during his 13-year reign over Persia, Asia Minor and Macedonia. Perhaps, Alexander adopting many customs and traditions in order to rule his millions of subjects is the key to his success. Alexander was 32 when he died of a fever in Babylon in June 323 BC. Alexander’s leadership depicts the power of the mind by controlling one’s mental, emotional and physical biology. 

Mind Power

The first Alternative medicine protocols came into being in 1765 when the first medical school in the United States opened at the College of Philadelphia by John Morgan and William Shippen Jr. This has grown into the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Harvard Medical School opened in 1782. The American Medical Association was formed in 1847.

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal remedies are more than 2,200 years ago. The earliest known written record of Chinese medicine (TCM) is the Huángdì Nèijīng (The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic) from the 3rd century BCE. That great work provided the theoretical concepts for TCM that remain the basis of its practice today.

India is known for its traditional medicinal systems—Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani. These medicinal systems are mentioned in the ancient Vedas and other scriptures. The Ayurvedic concept was developed and appeared between 2500 and 500 BC in India.

These protocols and transforming practices have stood the test of time for more than twelve thousand (12,000) years against 200+ years of psychiatry and pharmacological concoctions, which are favorite U.S. protocols for mental, emotional and physical health care.

The first U.S. pharmaceutical company was established in 1885. 

The United States and New Zealand are the only countries where drug makers are allowed to market prescription drugs directly to consumers. The U.S. consumer drug advertising boom on television began in 1997, when the FDA relaxed its guidelines relating to broadcast media. 

The concept of self-empowerment in managing health was adamantly condemned by the pharmaceutical industry, an industry whose livelihood is based upon selling drugs as the only path to health. The public’s perception that pharmaceuticals are the only way to regain health is conditioned by the industry’s onslaught of drug commercials every 15 minutes in TV programming, Internet, Billboard, newspaper and magazine ads. The financial power of the drug companies has also been used to manipulate medical school curricula. Thus, practitioners are trained to devalue the role of the mind while they are encouraged to write drug prescriptions for people’s Indoctrinated and Conditioned belief that doctors and pharmaceuticals are the only answer.

Medical practitioners have dismissed the role of the mind in influencing health. Science has fully established that a minimum of one third, and up to two thirds, of all positive medical interventions are due to the Placebo Effect, an expression of the real power of the mind to shift beliefs and thoughts to create health. 

By definition, the placebo effect reveals the influence that positive thinking about the effectiveness of a pill or therapy (that may in reality only be a sugar pill or a sham (fake) therapy) can produce a healing experience. Placebos represent the scientific consequence of how positive consciousness (mind) can manifest healing transformation.

While the placebo effect demonstrates the effectiveness of positive thinking in shaping health, let us not forget the influence of negative thinking. Negative thoughts engage the Nocebo Effect, which influence is equally powerful to that of the placebo effect but works in the opposite direction. Negative thinking, characteristic of the nocebo effect, can cause ANY disease and even death … from nothing more than a thought. 

It’s not really the power of positive thinking or of negative thinking, it is simply the power of thinking, and how our thoughts control our Mental, Emotional and Physical biology. This insight fully reflects the fundamental principle of quantum physics, the most valid of all human constructs, that recognizes consciousness as the factor that controls our life experiences. The placebo and nocebo effects are mediated by the release of brain neurochemistry that complements the mind’s interpretation of the world. Brain chemistry is responsible for manifesting the body’s physical expression of thought.

Empowerment Is Self-Made

At the present moment, the public is again being challenged by the influence of negative thinking as it relates to the fear of another life-threatening pandemic … this time the coronavirus.  Please note an important fact about the historic and famous deadly pandemics such as the black death (bubonic plague) in the 1300’s and the 1918 swine flu, both of which caused millions of deaths. Researchers have established that the health of those who died in these plagues were already physically compromised, they were extremely malnourished and lived in the most unsanitary environments.

Similarly, we are led to believe that measles also represents a “deadly” disease, while years ago, when I was young (contrary to what you may think, that was not the dark ages), everyone got the measles as a right of passage. Yes, some people died with measles. However, those who died were mentally and physically compromised. Today, the word “measles” invokes a nocebo image of a deadly plague killing everyone in sight. Be aware that it is the fear of the coronavirus propaganda by media Indoctrinating and Conditioning people to believe it is more deadly than any disease!

When fear is invoked, it causes a radical change in brain function resulting in the release of neurochemicals that, when sustained, can provoke a physiological breakdown in body functions. Electroencephalograph (EEG) assessments, suggest that our thoughts are an internal process that is of profound influence in shaping the interior of the body. EEG studies illustrate how the mind’s expression of positive and negative thoughts shape the behavior of the body’s internal milieu (cells, tissues and organs).

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) assays also read the mind’s thoughts. However, MEG studies offer profoundly different insights than are offered by EEG assessments. EEG activity is read via electrodes attached to the scalp because the electrical activity of the brain’s neurons is physically conducted to the skin overlying the skull. The MEG apparatus, however, reads brain activity using a probe that does not even touch the head or body. This is truly an important finding since it reveals that our thought processes are not contained in the head, but are “broadcast” out into the environment.

The point is significant because positive and negative thinking, respectively placebo and nocebo influences, not only shape our internal experiences but also shape our interactions with the external world. This finding also supports the quantum physics’ principle that consciousness shapes our life experiences, both internally as it influences health and externally as it shapes our worldly experiences.

The placebo and nocebo effects provide a scientific basis in support of the famous quote from Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, … you’re right!”  With that understanding, we need to seriously recognize, as metaphysics has revealed, the majority of our thoughts are negative, limiting and disempowering. What kind of life can we expect from that?

The conclusion is profound: We can experience personal empowerment, by assessing our thoughts and then through editing and reversing negative thoughts, we can manifest a healthy, happy and harmonious life. Today, physics, biology, and psychology collectively demonstrate the power of consciousness in creating our lives. A finding that interestingly endorses the ancient wisdom of mind over matter.

This same message of the impact that positive thinking has on our life experiences was emphasized in the ancient spiritual literature. Jesus, the profound healer and miracle worker, essentially offered, “You can do all the miracles that I can doeven better than I can … but you need to have unwavering belief.”

The conclusion is clear: To transform our world, we need to first transform our thoughts! The influence of positive thinking is real, and now more than ever, is necessary. ‘Heaven on Earth’ is merely a thought. We can bring it into being by thinking the thoughts that will create it. 

Published: February 9, 2023