Healing of Belief

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Healing of Belief

by Gregg Braden

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We live our lives based in what we

believe. When we think about the truth of this statement, we immediately

recognize a startling reality: Beyond anything else that we may actually do in

our lives, the beliefs that precede our actions are the foundation of all that

we cherish, dream, become and accomplish..

From the morning rituals that we go through to greet the world each day, to the

inventions that we use to make our lives better, to the technology that

destroys life through war â€" our personal routines, community customs, religious

ceremonies and entire civilizations are based on our beliefs. Not only do our

beliefs provide the structure for the way we live our lives, now the same areas

of study that have discounted our inner experiences in the past are showing us

that the way we feel about the world around us is a force that extends into

that world..

In this way, science is catching up with our most cherished spiritual and

indigenous traditions, which have always told us: that our world is nothing

more than a reflection of what we accept in our beliefs. We live our lives based

on what we believe about our world, ourselves, our capabilities and our

limits..

With access to such a power already within us, to say that our beliefs are

important to life is an understatement. Our beliefs are life! They are where it

begins and how it sustains itself. From our immune response and the hormones

that regulate and balance our bodies... to our ability to heal bones organs and

skin â€" and even conceive life â€" the role of human belief is rapidly taking

center stage in the new frontiers of quantum biology and physics..

If our beliefs hold so much power and if we live our lives based on what we

believe, then the obvious question is: Where do our beliefs come from? The

answer may surprise you..

With few exceptions, they originate with what science, history, religion,

culture and family tell us... In other words, the essence of our capabilities

and limits may well be based in what other people tell us... That realization

leads to the next question that we must ask ourselves:

If our lives are based on what we believe, then what if those beliefs are

wrong? What if we’re living our lives shrouded in the false limitations and

incorrect assumptions that other people have formed over generations, centuries

or even millennia?

Historically, for example, we’ve been taught that we are insignificant specks

of life passing through a brief moment in time, limited by the “laws†of space,

atoms and DNA. This view suggests that we’ll have little effect on anything

during our stay in this world and when we’re gone, the universe will never even

notice our absence..

While the words of this description may sound a bit harsh, the general idea

isn’t so far from what many of us today have been conditioned to hold true.

It’s precisely these beliefs that often leave us feeling small and helpless in

the face of life’s greatest challenges..

What if we’re more than this? Could it be that we’re really very powerful

beings in disguise? What if we’re delegates of miraculous potential, born into

this world with capabilities beyond our wildest dreams â€" ones that we’ve simply

forgotten under the conditions that have shocked us into the dreamlike state of

being powerless?

How would our lives change, for instance, if we discovered that we’re born with

the power to reverse disease? Or what if we could choose the peace in our

world, the abundance in our lives and how long we live? What if we found that

the universe itself is directly affected by a power that we’ve hidden from

ourselves for so long that we’ve forgotten it’s even ours?

Such a radical discovery would change everything. It would alter what we

believe about ourselves, the universe and our role within it. It’s also

precisely what the leading-edge discoveries of our day are showing us..

For centuries, there have been people who refused to accept the limitations

that have traditionally defined what it means to live in this world. They

refused to believe that we just appear through a mysterious birth that defies

explanation. They rejected the idea that such a miraculous emergence could be

for the purpose of living in suffering, pain and loneliness until we leave this

world just as mysteriously as we arrived..

To answer their yearning for a greater truth, they had to venture beyond the

boundaries of their conditioning. They isolated themselves from friends, family

and community and let go, really let go, of what they had been taught about the

world. And when they did, something precious and beautiful happened in their

lives: They discovered a new freedom for themselves that opened the door of

possibilities for others... It all began by their asking the question that was

just as bold in their time as it is in ours: What if our beliefs are wrong?

It’s in our absolute surrender to such a possibility that we discover the

freedom that tells us who we really are. My personal belief, however, is that

we don’t have to live in a cold, damp cave in the middle of nowhere to find it.

I also feel that personal liberation begins with the individual commitment to

know who we are in the universe. When we make such a commitment, everything

from the way we think of ourselves to the way we love will change. They must,

because we are changed in the presence of these deeper understandings..

It all comes back to what we believe... While it may sound too simple to be

true, I’m convinced that the universe works precisely in this way!

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excerpt from 'The Spontaneous Healing of Belief'

by Gregg Braden Published by Hay House-4/1/08

available at bookstores or hayhouse.com