It never ceases to amaze me how powerful the mind is. I have uncovered some horrific childhood experiences during therapy sessions with some of my clients. I found it hard to imagine how the mind and brain could block out such memories until I understood how powerful the brain’s survival mode is. We have the ability to wipe ‘any’ experience or issue from our conscious memory; especially if it is emotionally painful. It will move into our subconscious memory if we suppress the memory of it for long enough. We then move into a state of ‘Denial’ once the memory becomes a part of our subconscious. Just because it resides in our subconscious does not mean that it is no longer active. It is still generating negative energy because our thoughts are always generating energy and outcomes.
A prominent American geneticist, Dr Bruce Lipton, pointed out in his very informative book titled; ‘Our Perceptions Control Our Health’ (also available on DVD); that this negative energy is still sending negative signals to our cells. The cells are responding by moving towards a negative state which creates an unhealthy cell. This unhealthy state is very susceptible to sickness and disease. Many (if not all) of our sickness’ and diseases start with fear based thoughts in the mind. Some of these negative thought patterns get carried through to this life in our ‘Soul memory’ and become a part of our current memory bank once we incarnate into this life. We cannot escape from the negatives of our past lives – we can only heal them so as to set ourselves free from their karmic negative effect. The creative process is a ‘thought word and deed process’ and this applies to both positive and negative energies. Admittedly; some of these sickness and disease causing thought patterns are hidden so deeply in our subconscious that they are very difficult to uncover.
When we are stressed (even slightly) our brain switches to survival mode and many humans are stressed most of the time. We know that survival mode restricts the blood flow from the areas that are not important for survival and redirects the blood to the parts that are. The result being; many of the functions that are required to maintain a healthy body now get restricted supplies of nutrients (energy) via the blood thus they become less efficient. Our immune system and the creative parts of our brain are two of these areas. This means that our resistance to sickness and disease is severely affected. It also means that our mind and brain interaction is less productive and creative because it is restricted to survival type mentality. Survival mode is fear based and resists change and new ideas.
Positive cellular growth and creative thought patterns are severely restricted whist we are under stress. We are made up of units (subatomic particles) of energy because we are made up of ‘matter’. Energy is always moving otherwise it would not exist and it is either moving towards a positive or negative polarity. Positive energy being feed into cells means that they are in a healthy state of growth and negative energy means that they are in an unhealthy state of decay. Our subconscious thought patterns are continuously sending negative signals to our cells. Here is a major problem; our positive conscious thought signals will be promoting healthy cells whilst our negative subconscious thought signals will be promoting unhealthy cells. Dr Lipton points out that some cells will be in a state of growth whilst others will be in a state of decay.
You may be able to see a unintentional danger in some of the new age approaches to positive thinking and awareness. It is only half of the equation. We could be very positive on a conscious level whilst our subconscious is sending very destructive signals to our cells. The negative subconscious thought patterns also need to be healed if a person wants to spiritually evolve or avoid sickness and disease. I have personally known gentle, loving, good Christian and Spiritual friends who have died from ailments and diseases. I know that they have never understood the process of how their negative subconscious thought patterns could eventually take their lives. I knew them well enough to know that they had not dealt with their deeper anger and rage because they had suppressed it into their subconscious and reached a point of self denial. We were not taught how to uncover and heal our suppressed destructive negative subconscious thought patterns.
New age awareness and positive thinking has had a very positive effect and the world is a lot better place because of it. We all need to embrace the consciousness shift that comes with this new thinking. I believe that it has prepared us to tackle the deeper negative subconscious thought patterns that help create our karma and affect our physical and mental health. Maybe understanding and healing or mastering our negative subconscious is the final frontier of the third dimensional spiritual experience.
David Lane
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